Integrated Clinical Specialist: Infusion Therapy

Who We Are:
CarePartners is one of Ontario’s largest accredited home health care providers, providing nursing, personal support, therapy and rehabilitation support services for patients of all ages. We care for approximately 72,000 patients each year in homes, schools, clinics, workplaces and retirement homes, through our 24 locations and 22 nursing clinics. CarePartners is proud of its commitment to quality, relentlessly seeking to improve the patient and caregiver experience, promoting a healthy and resilient workplace culture, and contributing to a sustainable healthcare system in Ontario.

We continuously innovate to meet patient needs with specialized (award-winning) care programs and technology, including virtual care and AI

Overview:
**This is a Full-Time position that will include planned travel throughout Ontario as required.**

What We Offer:

- Competitive salary, comprehensive health and dental benefits
- Other employment perks such as Employee Assistance Program, Perkopolis, Rewards Points
- Flexible work from home arrangements supporting employee work life balance
- Inspiring leadership and opportunities for professional growth
- Supportive & dedicated Safety Health & Wellness team & Pandemic Response team
- Interprofessional collaboration with our Professional Practice Research & Education Team

What The Role Involves:
**Advance Standards of Care and Professional Practice in Infusion Therapy and Medication Management**
- Champions a culture that is committed to and passionate about patient-centered, high-quality and integrated care and the identification of transformative opportunities in enabling point-of-care excellence in every patient and caregiver interaction.
- Leads the co-design, implementation and evaluation of the clinical infusion program at local branches that align with current standards, evidence-based practice, organizational needs and external customer requirements.
- Collaborates with interprofessional patient care teams, operations, and quality and professional practice leadership to support the implementation of local, regional, and provincial strategies that will advance excellence in clinical infusion care outcomes from a population health lens.
- Implements evidence-based infusion care using an integrated care delivery approach, including understanding and elevating the roles of ALL health care professionals (i.e. Personal Support, Therapies and Nursing).
- Maintains and supports capacity building in development and maintaining clinical competency for front-line teams in infusion therapy and medication management principles.
- Develops and implements infusion management coaching and mentoring programs to ensure the delivery of best practices.
- Provides expertise and guidance on infusion therapy and medication administration to diverse populations.
- Facilitates and champions innovative practices, approaches, and programming in alignment with CarePartners' research initiatives.
- Participates in the development, maintains and monitors quality infusion care practice indicators to ensure ongoing practice fidelity.
- Supports CarePartners’ strategic priorities relevant to professional practice and ensures leadership is informed of emerging trends in technology, health care, and adult education pertaining to infusion care.
- Provide expertise in infusion therapy, medication management consult and professional practice to internal and external stakeholders such as the local and provincial Patient Care and Operations and Professional Practice leadership, hospitals, Ontario Health Teams and Home and Community Care Support Services.
- Collaborates with the local CarePartners branches to identify issues and trends regarding practice gaps and develops proposals, in collaboration with leadership, to mitigate activities and ensure alignment with high-quality patient-centered practice and programming expectations.
- Provide strategic advice on infusion care practice and programming issues and themes.

**Build Capability and Education**
- Provide consultancy service and support to leadership and frontline staff to promote practice and programming excellence in accordance with CarePartners' internal and regulatory standards.
- Supports the consistency of infusion therapy and medication management practices across the branches.
- Works closely with operations, learning and development, and quality and risk leadership to collaborate on initiatives such as clinical orientation, role development, and clinical competencies development.
- Is a resource to facilitate the full scope of practice for team members.
- Provides input into the performance appraisal and joint evaluation for CarePartners nurses pertaining to infusion therapy and medication management.
- Champions the use of digital learning platforms and identifies infrastructure necessary to enable agile and responsive learning for frontline team members.
- Supports local site-specific training and coaching initiatives that are info