Advanced Practice Clinician

**Position Information**

**Posting Number**:

- ROM23-291E**Title**:

- Advanced Practice Clinician (RFT 1.0 FTE)**Position Status**:

- Regular Full-time**FTE**:

- 1.0**Job Schedule**:

- Days**Unit**:

- Outpatient Services**Department**:

- Forensic Psychiatry**Union**:

- OPSEU Local 479**Site**:

- Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre**About The Royal**
- As one of Canada’s foremost mental health care and academic health science centres, The Royal has a clear purpose: to get more people living with mental illness into recovery faster. This is at the core of everything we do and it is driven by the passion, focus and dedication of our employees. Every day, the work that we do transforms the lives of people with mental illness through specialized mental healthcare, advocacy, research and education._

Reporting to the Director of Patient Care Services, this position is responsible and accountable for improving clinical outcomes for selected patient populations through advanced practice, program planning & delivery, consultation, research, education, efficient resource utilization and effective leadership.

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**Duties***:
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**Accountability #1: Consultation**
- Provides consultation to staff, managers, co-ordinators, physicians and other team members regarding clinical and professional practice issues
- Acts as a liaison and consultant to other health care facilities/institutions regarding patient care and health services
- Applies relevant research and a broad range of theories to clinical practice using critical thinking and decision making; utilizes research/evidence-based information to recommend interventions
- Facilitates a collaborative, interdisciplinary team practice model
- Participates in the co-ordination of complex care and discharge planning
- Monitors, evaluates and documents outcomes of decisions and interventions; revises the interdisciplinary plan of care in collaboration with the patient/family and the health care team

**Accountability #2**:
**Leadership/Administration**
- Acts as a mentor to colleagues and others to improve and support practice
- Provides leadership in development, implementation and evaluation of quality management programs/initiatives
- Participates in and supports colleagues in continuous quality improvement initiatives evaluating the effectiveness of interventions/services on patient outcomes
- Participates and provides leadership on intra
- and inter-disciplinary committees related to development of policies, procedures, protocols, guidelines, standards, education or research
- Anticipates emergent and future issues/changes and provides leadership and vision in short
- and long-term planning; contributes to strategic planning at all levels
- Provides leadership in program development, implementation and evaluation.
- Shares expertise and provides consultation beyond the boundaries of the institution into regional, provincial, national and international communities in areas of specialization
- Demonstrates an understanding of legislative and socio/political issues that influence decision making and develops strategies to influence health outcomes and health policies; provides leadership in shaping public policy in health care
- Collaborates with academic institutions through shared projects and/or through joint appointments
- Contributes to the broader context of knowledge through scientific presentation and publication

**Accountability #3: Clinical Practice**
- Provides advice & counsel regarding specialized, comprehensive care/services, emphasizing health promotion, disease prevention and collaborative management strategies to positively affect health outcomes
- Identifies opportunities to develop medical directives, participates in their development, implementation and evaluation, and directly implements aspects of care based on medical directives
- Demonstrates advanced knowledge and synthesis of advanced practice within a clinical specialty
- Performs advanced health assessment and clinical decision-making within a clinical specialty
- Assesses complex practice issues, and develops, implements and evaluates innovative approaches and programs addressing these issue
- Works collaboratively with clinical staff to assess, plan, implement and evaluate clinical interventions

**Accountability #4**:
**Research**
- Enhances the scientific base of practice by utilizing and supporting research in other disciplines
- Evaluates multidisciplinary research and assesses its impact on patient care and services
- Interprets, communicates and disseminates research findings to support patient care and recommends policy changes based on research
- Conducts or develops collaborative research projects as a principal investigator or co-investigator to monitor and improve services and patient outcomes
- Publishes in clinical and scientific journals and presents at scientific conferences
- Participates on research committees

**Accountability #5**:
**Education**
- Acts as a ro