Lead, Case Costing

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What Ontario Health offers:
Achieving your career goals is a priority to us. Benefits of working at Ontario Health may include the following based on employment type:

- Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage from your first day
- Health care spending account
- Premium defined benefit pension plan
- 3 personal days and 2 float days annually
- Individual contributors start at 3 weeks’ vacation with 4 weeks at 2 yrs.
- Career development opportunities
- A collaborative values-based team culture
- Wellness programs
- A hybrid working model
- Participation in Communities of Inclusion

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Funding Unit is part of OH Health System Performance and Accountability Portfolio (HSPA). HSPA has a mandate of enabling the Ontario healthcare system to provide high-quality, equitable care, and Funding Unit contributes to this mandate by development and implementation of funding policy and innovative funding models, aimed at leveraging funding to align with overall program goals and to drive value and performance in the system. Funding Unit is represented by a close collaboration of three interdependent teams, Modelling & Development, and Operations & Case Costing. Each of these teams is led by a Manager.

Reporting to the Manager of Case Costing, the Case Costing (CC) the Program Lead will work in a dynamic environment and is responsible for leading and delivering CC supports, benchmark reporting/analysis and best practices solutions to all Ontario Health (OH) Regions with Ontario Case Costing (OCC) facilities, various OH programs, stakeholders and potential new Case Costing Facilities.

Working with the Costing Solution Vendor, the Program Lead is responsible for the delivery of annual case cost data submissions for over 70 Facilities. The Program Lead will be supporting/leading a provincial initiative to recruit for 20 additional case cost facilities across new sectors (with a focus on community and mental health services) in the next 5 years to enhance the current Provincial case cost data.

Here is what you will be doing:
Working in a fast-paced environment with multiple and changing priorities, the Program Lead, Case Costing will be supporting the planning, coordination of, and delivery of multiple complex OCC projects based on high quality standards and within specified timelines. This will be accomplished by:

- Coaching staff to ensure that continuous quality improvement initiatives are incorporated into day-to-day activities
- Lead and participate in various committees to support OCC work

Provide ongoing support and effective oversight of the OCC initiative, including:

- Effective maintenance of existing case costing facilities and the Implementation of new facilities to utilize case costing.
- Monitoring and working with stakeholders to continuously improve data quality and enhance current data standards.
- Data support (e.g. milestone reviews, data use, quality/activity reporting).
- Data quality (e.g. adherence to standards and Ministry recommendations, data quality reviews).
- Leverage best practices in case costing.
- Partner with other areas of OH to provide technical support (e.g. hardware/software, database administration, data submission follow-ups).
- Manage and develop a regular cycle of data quality reporting on the quality of the provincial database and usability of the data.
- Understand, interpret, and clearly communicate complex data analysis and results related to data quality and reporting requirements to all levels of stakeholders.

Provide Facility support with ongoing or halted OCC submissions by:

- Engaging with facilities/Regions and demonstrating the benefits of case costing data and internal uses.
- Responding to data quality issues and concerns.
- Leveraging hospital/health sector experience, knowledge and sharing of previously applied solutions.
- Educating and sharing of best practices.

Provide Region and Provincial support and play a Lead role working with the provincial and regional stakeholders with key strategies from the Centre of Excellence by:

- Collaboration and effective communication between Ontario Health, Regions, Ministry and Hospitals.
- Informing facilities/Regions of best practices for case costing.
- Sharing internal and external uses of the case costing data for benchmarking or evidence informed decision making, etc..
- Sharing solutions to improve data quality and completeness of data.
- Enablingopen dialogue to discuss unique hospital speci