Vice President, Quality and Safety

Salary range: The salary range for this position is CAD $ $174.31 / hour Why Fraser Health?:

Fraser Health is seeking a visionary Vice President, Quality and Safety to define and drive excellence in care, safety, and experience across one of Canada's largest and most complex health systems. Reporting to the President & CEO and serving on the Executive Leadership Team, this role sets the strategic direction for how care is delivered, experienced, and continuously improved across hospitals, community services, and the broader system.

The portfolio spans Quality and Safety, Clinical Quality, Professional Practice (Nursing and Allied Health), Research, and Learning, providing a platform to embed improvement in science and evidence-based practices throughout Fraser Health. This leader ensures quality, safety, and patient experience while fostering team collaboration, learning culture, and innovation.

The ideal candidate brings experience from health care or other sectors with high-stakes quality and safety environments, leading with clear quality vision across diverse services and operations.

The Vice President, Quality and Safety is both a strategist and builder, translating vision into measurable outcomes. This is a unique opportunity to lead at scale, shape strategy, elevate standards, and leave a lasting legacy.

Detailed Overview:

Reporting to the President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the Vice President is a member of the Executive Team and the Clinical Operations Committee, and is jointly accountable for the attainment of Fraser Health's operating strategies and priorities. The Vice President provides Senior Executive leadership to the Professional Practice, Quality and Learning portfolio to ensure the journey through our health care system is both high quality and seamless for patients/clients/residents and their families. The Vice President provides leadership, direction and guidance to team members in the portfolio's of; Professional Practice, Quality and Patient Safety, Research, and Learning.

Responsibilities:

• Participate as a member of the Executive Team and the Clinical Operations Committee, holding accountability to provide strategy and leadership for Fraser Health to achieve goals and outcomes of the Strategic Operating Plan, Fraser Health priorities and long range needs.
• Oversees and ensures programs and services are designed, integrated, operated and the results measured and reported in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and attainment of outcome goals and the provision of Seamless Care. Liaises with colleagues to ensure seamless integration of strategies, operations and policies. Reports on performance of clinical programs, acute care sites and broader community needs.
• Works in partnership with members of the Executive Team, the Clinical Operations Committee and leaders across Fraser Health to lead and communicate strategies, operational plans and policies.
• Oversees and leads Fraser Health's initiative(s) increasing the attention on the patient experience by working with leaders to identify tactics and tools, leadership, partnerships and infrastructure, and policies to create and sustain an environment supporting patient-centeredness.
• Provides leadership to build awareness, teamwork and engagement that maximizes the success of Fraser Health's services, operations and its people. Ensures high standards of practice are set and maintained for programs and operations.
• Develops an organizational structure, a human resources and a financial plan, program and performance objectives to support attainment of current and long range strategies and operational requirements. Develops and oversees, in conjunction with the Executive Team, Clinical Operations Committee and portfolio and program leadership, capital and operating budget plans. Assesses and evaluates and makes decisions on the allocation of financial and human resources to maximize the provisions of services within the approved financial mandate.
• Provides oversight and leadership in the areas of clinical support and support programs/services to support Fraser Health clinical services. Oversees the planning, implementation and review of assigned clinical programs and services. Reviews services in terms of seamless systems integration, quality, standardization or practice and care, safety and positive health outcomes.
• Oversees and leads Fraser Health's focus on increasing the attention on the patient experience by working with leaders to identify tactics and tools, leadership, partnerships and infrastructure, and policies to create and sustain an environment supporting patient-centeredness.
• Develops alliances with universities and colleges in relation to Professional Practice education and clinical standards. Provides senior leadership to advance standards of practice for health science and nursing professionals. Makes recommendations to adjust clinical practice and standards to ensure compliance and positive impact on health services through ethical decision-making.

Qualifications:

QUALIFICATIONS:

Master's Degree in Health, Business Administration or a related field.

Fifteen (15) years or more of recent, related experience including that at the senior leadership level of a complex health organization involving leadership of the development, implementation and evaluation of complex service delivery systems.

COMPETENCIES:

Fraser Health leaders create conditions for success by being Clear, Caring, and Courageous:

• Proven ability to build a shared sense of purpose with clear priorities and expectations.
• Invests in team growth and development, and makes an honest effort to see, hear, and value all perspectives.
• Takes smart risks to find new solutions and has the ability to make tough decisions when needed for meaningful impact.

Professional/Technical Capabilities

• Comprehensive knowledge of current healthcare policies, issues, trends, government directives, legislation, public policies, and issues related to patient care.
• Knowledge of utilization management strategies and programs.
• Knowledge of structures and leadership roles to support patient-centeredness frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative working relationships, including integration of teams, and to communicate in a manner that is clear, compelling, and credible.
• Demonstrated experience in knowledge management initiatives that includes the identification of people and cultural issues and experience in the shaping of an organizational environment that values an individual's knowledge.
• An understanding of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act and Declaration on the Declaration Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.