Professional Practice Coordinator, Collaborative

**About SickKids**:
Dedicated exclusively to children and their families, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is one of the largest and most respected paediatric healthcare centres in the world. As innovators in child health, we lead and partner to improve the health of children through the integration of healthcare, leading-edge research and education. Our reputation would not have been built - nor could it be maintained - without the skills, knowledge and experience of the extraordinary people who come to work here every day. SickKids is committed to ongoing learning and development, and features a caring and supportive work environment that combines exceptionally high standards of practice.

When you join SickKids, you become part of our community. We share a commitment and determination to fulfill our vision of _Healthier Children. A Better World_.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to work alongside the world’s best in paediatric healthcare.

**Position Description**:
This dynamic role offers an opportunity to build your leadership experience with the mentorship and support of the entire Collaborative for Professional Practice team, including the Associate Chief Nursing Practice, Senior Manager, Professional Practice, Professional Practice Coordinator, Supply Chain, and Clinical Nurse Specialists, Interprofessional Practice - among many others.

As part of this new role, the Professional Practice Coordinator will lead and support exciting initiatives promoting excellence in safe and effective nursing and interprofessional practice. This role will enable excellence through supporting medical directives, nurse credentialing, and RNAO Best Practice Spotlight (BPSO) designation requirements.

**What do we do in the Collaborative for Professional Practice?**

The Collaborative for Professional Practice is the portfolio that advances care in the context of nursing and interprofessional delivery of child and family-centred care. We serve the diverse needs of nurses and interprofessionals to lead change and promote systems thinking. The Collaborative is a uniquely positioned office that collaborates in developing, implementing and evaluating processes, structures, and models of care that facilitate our healthcare workforce to perform to their best.

Given the dynamic nature of practice issues across the organization, the Collaborative provides crucial leadership to maintain and develop networks across stakeholder groups. The Collaborative facilitates information exchange and enables partnerships to advance interprofessional paediatric and nursing practice locally, provincially, and nationally.

**Here's what you'll get to do**
- Coordinate and support aspects of Medical Directives processes in collaboration with the Medical Directives Committee Co-Chairs.
- Manage the annual nurse credentialing process, including ongoing support to drive excellence in nurse credential oversight.
- Act as the organizational lead and support for oversight of the Hospital's RNAO Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) designation.
- Partner with the Collaborative for Professional Practice team to monitor strategic metrics, including data analysis, synthesis, and presentation.
- Partner to support critical projects in collaboration with Clinical Nurse Specialists, Interprofessional Practice.
- Perform other responsibilities as the Collaborative for Professional Practice strategic plan evolves.

**Here's What You'll Need**
- Minimum of four years working in the paediatric healthcare setting
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing
- Masters-level preparation in nursing, healthcare quality or related field (in progress accepted)
- Registration with the College of Nurses on Ontario
- Interest in building knowledge in nursing regulation and legislation that guides nursing and interprofessional practice
- Strong ability to collaborate with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, strong interpersonal skills, and proven ability to successfully establish relationships
- Demonstrated project coordination skills, including a working knowledge of MS Office (e.g., Excel, Word, PowerBI, Forms, PowerPoint)
- Excellent time management skills and ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities
- Demonstrated ability to complete literature reviews, analysis, and synthesize information for presentation to key stakeholders
- Solid problem-solving and decision-making skills, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to be creative, self-directed, innovative, adaptive, results
- and detail oriented

**Our Commitment to Diversity**:
The children and families we care for are from a variety of communities, and so are our employees. We welcome and encourage everyone to join our organization and be part of our team.

Thank you for your interest in joining SickKids. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. In accordance with our Hospital policy, employment at SickKids is condit