Primary Care Collaboration Lead

**Job Number**:
J1024-0139

**Job Title**:
Primary Care Collaboration Lead - Couchiching Ontario Health Team

**Department**:
Affiliated Opportunity

**Job Type**:
Temporary Full Time

**Approximate End Date**:
March 31, 2025

**Job Category**:
Healthcare Professional

**Open Positions**:
1

**Date Posted**:
October 3, 2024

**Closing Date**:
October 20, 2024
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People have always been OSMH’s greatest strength. Our committed team has helped our community for over a century. We offer an environment where each individual works interdependently towards common goals: we value _Trust, Courage and Teamwork_. We are an organization where individuals’ contributions are valued and there are many opportunities for personal growth and development.

Position Summary

The individual must be an exceptional communicator who will ensure that the primary care provider and patient experience is central to planning and decision-making. The Primary Care Collaboration Lead is responsible for planning and executing OHT initiatives and projects, with primary care providers, primary care clinical leads and patients and caregivers in alignment with the COHT strategic priorities.

This position will assist in driving projects forward by organizing resources across organizations and information to complete deliverables and meet project objectives. They will provide a strong focus on change management and quality improvement methodologies and performance evaluation to support project teams in spreading and scaling project successes. They will be a key member on the OHT Operations Team ensuring alignment with COHT strategic priorities.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Lead the planning, coordination, communications, and partner engagement processes necessary to support primary care network leadership through new and ongoing initiatives in our community. Key components of this work include:

- Providing strategic support and guidance to local primary care providers
- Acting as liaison between primary care providers and OHT working groups, as needed (i.e. collating and voicing primary care feedback, challenges, and opportunities)
- Developing and monitoring project plans and timelines to support and help achieve project milestones and deadlines
- Actively engaging and communicating with local Primary Care providers and identify opportunities to support the needs of primary care, their patients and caregivers
- Identifying and engaging additional partners, as needed
- Creating and implementing a comprehensive Primary Care communication strategy
- Acting as the main point of contact to coordinate primary care planning, communication and implementation
- Providing project management expertise including planning, initiation, implementation, monitoring and control, risk identification and mitigation, benefits realization, and budget management
- Conducting environmental scans and assessments to inform business cases, co-design, and project development
- Working collaboratively across sectors, working with interdisciplinary teams, with particular attention to clinical teams
- Providing project leadership and project management support to the development and implementation of OHT project plans, communicate project goals, objectives, and performance metrics, and document and track project phases and associated progress
- Identifying key partnership opportunities and develop business cases to advance OHT priorities
- Foster partner engagement and nurture and support change management while guiding their teams through complicated change ie. Telus, one instance
- Support informed OHT partner decision-making by developing options and recommendations for consideration across the governance structure
- Participate in virtual and face-to-face meetings
- Develop and support COHT Access, Connection & Attachment Strategy
- Support the PCN development, review of membership, engagement, satisfaction and provide feedback to the COHT PCN leadership council and the COHT ED.
- Explore the opportunity to develop a Primary Care Collaborative/Think Tank as well as Primary Care Education Rounds for the PCN.
- Explore the addition of PCN participation to the FHO, Chief of staff position descriptions
- Build relationships with all primary care members listed within the Access, Connection and Attachment Strategy and explore the collection of data from these sites.
- Support the Data Analyst with the development of a COHT Access, Connection and Attachment Data Dashboard.
- Support the Data Analyst with analysis, interpretation and knowledge translation
- Explore the creation of a PCN l