Project Lead, People Health, Well-being and Safety

Why Fraser Health?:
Fraser Health continues to be recognized as one of BC's Top Employers, are you someone who is passionate about making a difference in the lives of others?

Fraser Health is responsible for the delivery of hospital and community-based health services to over 1.9 million people in 20 diverse communities from Burnaby to Fraser Canyon on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations. Our team of 43,000 staff, medical staff and volunteers is dedicated to serving our patients, families and communities to deliver on our vision: Better health, best in health care.

We have an exciting
**Temporary Full Time** opportunity for a
**Project Lead, People Health, Well-being and Safety** to join our team at
**Central City Tower** located in
**Surrey, BC.**

Effective October 26th, 2021, all new hires to Fraser Health will need to have full COVID 19 vaccination (have received a full series of a World Health Organization “WHO” approved vaccine against infection by SARS-COV-2, or a combination of approved WHO vaccines). Please note this applies to all postings, and individual medical exemptions must be approved by the Provincial Health Officer.

Come work with dedicated health care providers who are enthusiastic and committed to provide quality healthcare to our clients/patients/residents. We invite you to find out why more than 95% of new employees recommend Fraser Health as an excellent place to work. Work hard and have fun while you do it.

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Detailed Overview:
**Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families**:
This role leads a variety of regional and/or provincial OH&S projects related to workflow improvement, system optimization, and knowledge transfer within the assigned People Health, Well-being and Safety services portfolio. Working in support of Fraser Health and/or all health authorities and in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders such as Health Authority Leadership, Unions, WSBC, Ministry of Health, identifies needs, evaluates, and recommends standards that help meet process and quality improvement objectives.

**Responsibilities**:

- Leads occupational health and safety related projects and functions as a resource for management teams to ensure that processes, workflow and implementation of changes achieve the desired outcomes.
- Develops, implements and evaluates new technical solutions and new or redesigned processes ensuring alignment with departmental and clinical objectives and provincial mandates. Ensures current evidence-based practice is incorporated with change and/or project management methodologies that will transform service, culture and system structure.
- Develops and leads an education and training strategy related to projects including on line learning opportunities; provides consultation, education, and interpretation of various guidelines and processes to leaders across Fraser Health and/or all health authorities.
- Within the local and/or provincial context, gathers business requirements, leads working groups to identify common challenges, and assesses and identifies needs in consultation with stakeholders.
- Develops project plans that outline improvement timelines and deliverables; ensures completion and coordination of assigned initiatives; facilitates consensus with stakeholders and manages project resources including preparing and monitoring project budgets and expenditures where required; identifies and resolves issues.
- Leads and participates in quality assurance reviews; develops and/or recommends tools and mechanisms to measure, monitor and evaluate progress and education outcomes; provides support to those with operational accountability in the design and/or redesign of processes, systems and tools.
- Works in collaboration and consultation with key stakeholders, internal and external to Fraser Health including technical resources (e.g. IMIT, external service providers), physicians, clinical directors/managers, occupational health staff, professional practice, infection control, public health.
- Produces regular reports on the status of various initiatives for review and follow up.
- Provides leadership to assigned project teams and represents initiatives on a variety of committees as required.

Qualifications:
**Education and Experience**

Bachelor's degree in a health care related discipline plus a minimum of five (5) years recent, related project management or process improvement experience within an occupational health and safety, infection control or public health setting, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

**Skills and Abilities**
Demonstrates the LEADS capabilities of Leads Self, Engages Others, Achieves Results, Develops Coalitio