Director Health Services

**Requisition ID**: 371907

**Position Number**: 880-7151010R095-01

**Posting End Date: December 12, 2024**

**Employer**:Southern Health-Santé Sud

**Site**:_ _Flexible within Southern Health-Santé Sud

**Union**: Non Union

**Department/Unit**: Primary Care

**Work Location**:Flexible within Southern Health-Santé Sud

**City**: Portage la Prairie

**Hiring Status**: Permanent

**FTE**: 1.0

**Employment arrangement**:In Person

**Daily hours worked**: 7.75

**Anticipated shift**: Days

**Annual base hours**:2015

**Anticipated Start Date**:To be determined

**Salary**:
- Find your rewarding career in a vibrant and diverse community within Southern Health-Santé Sud. Our organization is privileged to provide care for people at every point in their lives.

Partnering with our communities, we provide safe, accessible and sustainable people-centered health care. We are proud to work in collaboration with all our partners within and throughout our diverse region: seven First Nations Communities, Francophone, Métis, Mennonite and Hutterite communities as well as a growing number of immigrants from all over the world.

Be part of the Southern Health-Santé Sud team, who is rooted in what matters most. Join a region that offers a lifestyle like no other - a safe, peaceful, beautiful, fulfilling life for you and your family.

**Position Overview**:
The Director Health Services - Primary Care is responsible for providing leadership and oversight for Primary Care services and programs, including Southern Health-Santé Sud owned primary care clinics. The Director is responsible for program planning and development, implementation of best practice, adherence to standards of care and supporting priorities in the programs and services. The Director is expected to develop and sustain strong collaborative working relationships with community partners, leadership in Acute Care, Community & Long-Term Care programs, and provincial colleagues. As a member of the Regional Leadership Team, the Director makes decisions regarding policy formation, long range planning, program development, resource allocation, quality improvement activities and coordination of services and programs.

The incumbent exercises the appropriate level of initiative and independent judgment in determining work priorities, work methods to be employed and action to be taken on unusual matters. The position functions in a manner that is consistent with the mission, vision and values; and the policies of Southern Health-Santé Sud.

**Experience**:

- Minimum five (5) years of direct clinical services delivery in Primary Care.
- Minimum five (5) years of progressive management experience leading a broad spectrum of health services including:

- Management experience leading an interdisciplinary health service.
- Experience participating in operational planning, implementing operational directives, and achieving formal quality, patient safety, service integration and partner collaboration goals and objectives.
- Experience building and leading a high-performing, interdisciplinary team in a publicly funded health services delivery organization including influencing and collaborating with senior management.
- Experience in proposal writing, budget development, policy development and contract management.
- Knowledge of/experience with risk management and patient safety.
- Knowledge of/experience with quality improvement/LEAN design.

**Education (Degree/Diploma/Certificate)**:

- Baccalaureate Degree in a health-related discipline.
- Master’s Degree in a relevant discipline is an asset.
- Additional education/preparation in management and administration preferred.

**Certification/Licensure/Registration**:

- Eligible for licensure and a member in good standing of the college or association that accredits their professional designation, governed by the Regulated Health Professions Act (RHPA).

**Qualifications and Skills**:

- Demonstrated knowledge of the Manitoba Health Care system including broad understanding of the issues in rural health service delivery.
- Knowledge of program development and evaluation, primary care issues, and health system theory, practice and research.
- In-depth knowledge of principles of primary care and primary health care.
- Demonstrated ability to foster and promote positive working relationships.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and appropriately manage multiple tasks within a dynamic environment.
- Demonstrated ability to consider the continuum of health services in decision-making/planning process.
- Demonstrated leadership abilities. The provincial health system in Manitoba has adopted the LEADS in a Caring Environment framework.
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to be flexible, manage and facilitate change.
- Competent with Microsoft Windows based programs (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
- Demonstrated record of commitment to ongoing professional development and life-long learning.
- Given the cult