Manager - Interprofessional Practice

**Company Description**
One of Canada's Best Diversity Employers and Greater Toronto's Top Employers for many consecutive years, William Osler Health System (Osler) provides a safe and supportive health care network to grow your career. Osler is nationally recognized for its commitment to patient safety and is Accredited with Exemplary Standing, the highest rating a Canadian hospital can receive. As a major Ontario hospital system, and home to some of the biggest specialty and emergency departments in the country, Osler serves the 1.3 million residents of Brampton, Etobicoke and surrounding communities. We are proud to offer you incredible exposure to best-in-class health care delivery and challenging hands-on opportunities to stay at the top of your game.

A hospital system built for and by the community, we continue to expand our services to meet the needs of a growing population, creating opportunities for increased hands-on skills development, cross-department training and promotional opportunities. Guided by our accomplished senior leadership team, together we are driving our vision of patient-inspired health care without boundaries.

At Osler, we invest in careers that go beyond where health care professionals like you can achieve their goals and find deep personal and professional fulfillment. Join our team today

Reporting to the Associate Vice President, Practice and Academics, the Manager, Interprofessional Practice, leads interprofessional practice processes that enable clinical teams to have the knowledge, skills and resources to deliver safe, high-quality, evidence-informed care and will ensure the program goals and objectives are met and are aligned with the corporate strategic plan.

Accountabilities:

- Collaborates with the clinical educators and broader program leadership team in the development, evaluation and implementation of clinical education programs to support the successful uptake of evidence-informed best practices and guidelines, policies and standards of care in the clinical settings
- In collaboration with program medical and clinical leadership, establishes a professional practice climate that optimizes the scopes of practice of clinical staff, provides guidance on principles, practices and models of care that guide the delivery of high-quality care
- In collaboration with program medical and clinical leadership, establishes, reviews and evaluates organization wide professional standards and ensures that evidence-based best practices are standardized, implemented and sustained
- Maintains a results orientation (monitors, evaluates, and drives performance improvement) that focuses on nursing, professional practice workforce and quality/practice indicators
- Provides coaching and mentorship to clinical educators and professional practice leaders and enable a high-performing team
- Advises directors and managers on the best models of care and appropriate staffing levels, including the development of business case for incremental growth of staff as a result of changes to clinical programs and bed numbers, in conjunction with finance
- Supports clinical teams to adopt the most appropriate evidence-informed framework and framework to enhance their care and service delivery
- Actively supports the development and implementation of new innovative programs, including transformational initiatives that impact clinical practices and workflows (e.g., adoption of the new hospital information system)
- Develops effective processes for clinical engagement and in selecting, evaluating, decision-making and maintaining materials/equipment needed to provide world-class care to our patients and community we serve
- Co-chairs best-practice and/or discipline specific practice committees as assigned
- Develops and maintains effective interdepartmental relationships and team-focused culture
- Provides leadership to standardize policies, procedures, and authorizing mechanisms, including the development of a standardized process for document management in the organization (as per Public Hospitals Act, Nursing Act, and Regulated Health Professions Act)
- Creates a plan for identifying gaps and variabilities in practice and developing a plan to standardize practices and standard work where appropriate
- Identifying initiatives and opportunity to continuously improve the patient and family experience at Osler
- Build capacity for PPLs to seek grants (i.e., RNAO Fellowship)
- Provides leadership support to Advanced Practice Nurses, by helping to standardize resources and processes to optimize the APN roles
- Provides oversight for all aspects of clinical orientation for all regulated health care professionals
- Nurtures relationships with external professional organizations and third-party partners
- Leads corporate strategic initiatives as assigned
- Direct oversight of a team of professional practice leaders with various disciplines, including (but not limited to) nursing, occupational and physiotherapy,