Clinical Practice Leader Critical Care

Position Profile:
**Humber River Health. Lighting New Ways in Healthcare.**

Since opening our doors in 2015 as North America’s first fully digital hospital, we remain unwavering in our belief that we can change the hospital where we work, the community where we live, and the world of healthcare beyond our borders. Serving a community of 850,000 residents in North West Toronto, Equity Inclusivity and active participation in the North West Toronto Ontario Health Team are key initiatives important to our Team. At Humber River Health, we use a custom combination of technology and clinical expertise to rebuild elements of care. We make technology work for staff and physicians; giving them more time to spend with patients, to eliminate inefficiencies, and to reduce the chance of errors. Humber River Health is formally affiliated with both the University of Toronto and Queen’s University and committed to becoming a community academic hospital. Clinical Excellence, Optimizing Care through Technology and Community Connection frame our Research Strategy.

At Humber River Health, we’re not hoping for a renaissance, we are making it happen. As part of our dynamic team, you can lead the way, as we continue our journey towards high reliability care.

**Join our Professional Practice team as a Clinical Practice Leader and provide leadership in clinical and professional practice, education and research. Work collaboratively with other Clinical Practice Leaders to deliver innovative and compassionate healthcare in our community.**

The **Clinical Practice Leader Critical Care** optimizes the use of real time data, predictive analytics and professional expertise to continuously improve quality and safety in the area of patient care delivery. Through their ability to lead, consult and advise health professionals in accordance with legal, regulatory, professional standards, policies and practice guidelines with a primary focus on achieving excellence in patient care by being a high reliability hospital.

The **Clinical Practice Leader Critical Care (Temporary Full Time)**is accountable for assessing staff competency in the context of performance management in collaboration with the clinical management team.

Are you a passionate advancing the goals and objectives of the hospital by serving as a change agent, expert clinician and collaborator and achieving consistently high-quality, safe patient care as **Clinical Practice Leader**? If yes, we invite you to read the details below then apply.

**Employment Status**: Temporary Full-Time
**Hours of Work**: Monday - Friday, flexibility required - Onsite
**Location**: Humber River Health, Wilson Site

**Area of Focus**:Critical Care Unit
**Labour Group**:Managment
**Reporting Relationship: P**rogram Director, Critical Care, and Oncology and Senior Director, Professional Practice

**Responsibilities**:

- Consultation with the Program Director, Manager and staff regarding program needs
- Modelling excellence in clinical practice and professional development
- Promoting the development of interdisciplinary teams
- Designing learning needs assessments and developing educational programs to support these needs
- Conducting orientation and education for the Critical Care Area
- Developing continuous educations programs to keep staff updated with new practices, skills and certifications
- Facilitating development of interdisciplinary standard of care
- Advocate for use of best practices for clinical staff in the Critical Care Inpatient environment
- Providing leadership to the Critical Care Response Team (i.e. program planning, CCIS Data Collection) for 1 day week
- Develop reports of staff disciplinary actions for submission to regulatory health professional colleges and professional associations in collaboration with Manager and Director
- Collect data on practice needs (e.g. programs, care interventions, policies, standards in clinical area) to identify gaps in nursing practices, competencies, and service quality; develop educational strategies, plans, and content (e.g. policies, processes, technologies) in consultation with unit leadership team and clinical staff; and evaluate post-training outcomes
- Assess quality of care from patients and the healthcare team; develop, implement, and monitor performance benchmarks; compare and analyze data against other facility practices.

**Requirements**:

- Master’s Degree in Nursing or MSc in Nursing
- Current registration and membership in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO)
- A minimum of (5) five years of recent relevant nursing experience in Critical Care
- Experience in a Critical Care Response Team an asset
- Completion of Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses (CACCN) certification preferred
- Membership with the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certifications
- Demonstrated experience in Adult education to design, deliver a