Department Manager of Integrated Primary Care

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Supporting the vision, values, purpose of Seabird Island’s Health Department including service delivery that is centered around clients, members, and families. Reporting to the Director of Health and Social Development, the Manager is accountable for managing and providing leadership for assigned clinical operations through the leadership provided to staff, or the management of service contracts with contracted agencies.

Through the direct leadership and management of people and resources, the manager oversees the operational, administrative activities of a clinical operations; or supports the operation of primary care supports for services as provided through contracted agencies.

The Manager fosters an environment that empowers and supports individuals to provide safe, culturally inclusive, quality care. Ensures clinical operations at Seabird Island, the community or across partner sites/community areas are delivered in an effective and efficient manner through consultative advice on primary care design, policies and procedures, management and leadership or contract management.

**Role**: This rewarding and challenging leadership position provides an opportunity to affect positive change from the ground up and deliver needed services.

**SUCCESS PROFILE**

What does it take to be successful working at Seabird Island? Check out the top traits we’re looking for and see if you have the right mix.
- **Ethical**: Maintains and promotes individual and organizational integrity and values in conduct of all activities.
- **Accountable**: Takes responsibility and ownership for a problem, project, or issue.
- **Leading Others**: the ability to organize and motivate people to get things accomplished in a way that everyone feels a sense of order and direction.
- **Team-builder**: Unites a group of people and motivates them towards a defined mission, goal, and objective.
- **Proactive Thinking**: the ability to evaluate future implications of current decisions and action; the ability to mentally create the scenarios and outcomes of situations that could develop from decisions or plans of action.
- **Self Confidence**: the ability to develop and maintain inner strength based on desire to succeed; a person’s belief that he or she possesses the capabilities to succeed.
- **Interpersonally Effective**: Creates and sustains positive working relationships.
- **Culturally Led**: foster workplace cultures that respect and value the skills, experiences, and perspectives of Indigenous employees and communities.

**WORK THAT MATTERS**
Do you enjoy working as part of a team and are able to deliver individual results. You thrive in an environment, which allows you to make a high impact towards the future of a First Nations Community.

We are located 1 kilometer from Agassiz, BC on the beautiful Fraser River, 120 km east of Vancouver.

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**BENEFITS & PERKS**
- Extended health and dental benefits,
- Accrued vacation and sick time,
- Pension plan with matching employer contributions,
- Access to internal training programs, professional development and skill enhancement,
- Collaboration with an interdisciplinary team,
- Equitable hourly rates
- Casual dress code

**WHAT YOU'LL DO**

**Management and leadership**
- Lead a multidisciplinary team to include Nurses and Medical Office teams, and other stakeholders on a regular basis to address needs to support the needs of individuals in the program.
- Performs full scope of people management activities to support primary care of Seabird Island. Provides work direction and oversight of direct reports:

- work planning, scheduling, scheduling for unplanned absences, payroll processing and assessment of staffing need and creating overarching clinical service delivery schedules and staff rotations based on operational requirements.
- hiring/promotion, staff development, coaching/mentoring, development plans, feedback, and conducting performance management reviews.
- conflict resolution, discipline, and termination recommendations.
- authorizing leaves of absence.
- ensure all employees are actively charting (including in Mustimuhw).
- are aware of their duty to report, duty of care, boundaries, conflicts of interest, and working relationships with vulnerable individuals and families.
- evaluating the work of staff and volunteers to ensure that programs are of appropriate quality and that resources are used effectively; and
- promoting shared team goals and collaboration among members.
- Monitor overall performance of program against the business plan and budget, including authorization of expenditures.
- Provides leadership of people to foster an environment that is supportive of engagement, innovation, individual and team achievements and the provision of safe, quality care.
- Accountable to ensure staff are knowledgeable of applicable health and safety legislation, are trained to act appropriately in emergency situations, practice safe prog