Program Support Partner, Health Equity, Diversity

**Position**: Program Support Partner, Health Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

**Department**: Quality and Process Improvement

**Position Status**: Full Time

**Union**: Non-Union

**Number of Positions**:1

**HOURS OF WORK**:
Approximate # of hours:37.5 per week

Type of Shifts: Days, Monday-Friday

**WHY WORK FOR US**:
Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) is a state-of-the-art regional hospital with a proud local history extending back over a century. With a capacity of 494 beds, our regional hospital has one of the busiest Emergency Departments in Ontario and offers an extensive range of services, including specialized programs in renal, stroke, cardiac, cancer care, and vascular surgery.

We wouldn't be the hospital we are today without the people and nothing is more important to us than our team of dedicated employees. At PRHC, we pride ourselves on creating and maintaining an environment where people are valued, recognized, and treated with respect.

We believe that the best way to support our patients is through our people. We do this by providing our employees with competitive and comprehensive benefit plans, a pension program with matching employer contribution, professional development opportunities, employee and family assistance program, health and wellness programs (gym and yoga memberships, annual wellness fair, travel discounts) and a learning fund for educational development. Exploring new positions, programs, or development initiatives is encouraged as it contributes to your personal and professional growth. PRHC supports and encourages you to pursue whatever path you choose.

**WHAT YOU’LL DO**:
The Health Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Program Support Partner (HEDI PSP) supports efforts to reduce health disparities by working collaboratively with staff, physicians, patients, families, and community partners, to advance the quality, safety and experience of patient care and service with an equity lens. This involves supporting the development, implementation and maintenance of structures, processes and policies designed to advance health equity in the domains of access to care, patient experience and health outcomes. The HEDI PSP plays a critical role in helping to identify disparities in health care access, service provision, satisfaction, and outcomes. This includes engagement with internal and external partners to develop and promote innovative mechanisms for care and service design and delivery. The HEDI PSP supports the integration of a health equity lens and EDI principles throughout the organization through engagement and tailored interventions. Combining expertise in equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism, and principles of people-centred care, the HEDI PSP’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to, strategy development, staff and physician education, policy development, Patient and Family Partner recruitment, HEDI Committee support, and data selection, collection, and analysis.

**WHAT YOU’LL BRING**:

- Bachelor’s degree required - Degree in a related field including, but not limited to Social Work/Social Services, Health Promotion, Health Administration or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience
- Master’s degree considered an asset
- Three (3) to five (5) five years recent related experience in public health, program evaluation, program management and work with equity seeking populations including experience with public and/or population change initiatives, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- Formal training (certification preferred) in improvement methodologies (Quality Improvement, Lean, Six Sigma, Change Management, Process Improvement, Project Management), leadership, or project management
- Demonstrated knowledge of change and project management principles coupled with a strong understanding of the public health and the healthcare system
- Demonstrated project planning and strategic planning skills
- Broad knowledge of public health policies, procedures, regulations, and legislative environment

**WHO YOU ARE**:

- Demonstrated commitment to the principles of EDI, Health Equity, to the social determinants of health, and to the health of the public and various populations
- A demonstrated passion for advancing healthcare within the context of a system-wide strategy and the broader challenges of changing healthcare policies using a health equity lens.
- A people-centred, results-oriented style that encourages empowerment and collaboration.
- Demonstrated mentorship skills including inspiring and motivating staff to achieve outcomes and functioning effectively with tact and diplomacy while handling stressful issues.
- Effective communication skills including listening, presenting, articulating conveyance of messages in an honest, open, transparent style; strong writing skills with experience in writing strategy and program reports.
- Strong facilitation skills. Comfortable with the developmen