Job Description

Your Opportunity:

Bring your passion, dedication, and expertise to Alberta Health Services (AHS) as an Executive Director within the the University of Alberta Hospital portfolio. As an inspirational leader you will be responsible for the operational and strategic leadership of the UAH Medicine program/EZ medicine program and UAH/Stollery Emergency where you will build on the momentum towards enduring excellence, team work and compassion for our patients and each other. You will foster a positive work environment where inclusion and diversity, innovation, quality improvement, leading practices and research thrive. A proven strategic leader with strong interpersonal skills, you excel at building high-functioning teams commited to excellence in accessible value-driven service delivery and person-centered care and at creating partnerships and coalitions across and beyond the organization to achieve objectives. The University of Alberta Hospital (UAH) is one of Canada\'s leading academic health sciences centres with a reputation for research, innovation, education, and patient-centered care. A referral centre for western and northern Canada, our teams provide expert care to our community and some of the most complex and critically ill patients in Canada. Edmonton is the capital of Alberta and a cultural, governmental, and educational centre with outstanding urban amenities, shopping, lively local arts and music, post-secondary education, professional sports teams, and the largest urban parkland in North America. AHS is Canada\'s first and largest province-wide, fully-integrated health system, and has been named among Canada\'s Top 100 Employers, Alberta\'s Top 75 Employers and top employer for young people and diversity.

Description:

Reporting to the Senior Operating Officer, University of Alberta Hospital, Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and Kaye Edmonton Clinic, the Executive Director (ED) functions within an operational/medical dyad leadership model providing effective and inspiring strategic and operational leadership for site clinical teams and zone programs, with accountability for 9 direct reports, a portfolio of 1300 staff and budget of approximately $90M. A builder of high-functioning teams with a focus on transformational change, you will champion engagement, collaboration and innovation, to create positive working relationships with site, zone, community, university and provincial partners to continually improve, transform and advance excellence in service delivery, quality, accessibility and sustainable person-centered care. You will be a team player bringing a strong and experienced voice to the Senior Leadership table holding responsibility and accountability for developing, implementing and evaluating strategic and operational site/zone plans, to achieve value-based business results, improving patient experience and outcomes while achieving organizational goals and strategic vision. Additionally, you will provide leadership in the effective management and stewardship of financial, human and capital resources in a changing and multifaceted environment with diverse, complex and sensitive issues while promoting ongoing quality improvement and culture of safety for staff, physicians and patients.

• Classification: Executive Director
• Union: Exempt
• Unit and Program: Medicine/Emerg Administration
• Primary Location: U of A Hospital
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Negotiable Location: Within Edmonton Zone
• Employee Class: Regular Full Time
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 20-NOV-2023
• Date Available: 11-DEC-2023
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 10
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
• Minimum Salary: $52.54
• Maximum Salary: $92.41
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:

The successful candidate possesses a minimum of a bachelor\'s degree in a healthcare profession and a clinical background. A minimum of five (5) years\' successful progressive experience in an operational leadership role in a health care organization of significant size, complexity, and diversity is required.
Additional Required Qualifications:

With proven leadership experience, you have a reputation as a caring, strategic results oriented leader and decision maker with a passion to make a difference, possessing a can-do attitude. You have the ability to lead others towards a common vision and deliver on promised actions and outcomes. You have demonstrated success in developing and leading strong, high performing teams, creating a culture of engagement, collaboration, inclusion and caring with a continual focus on person centered care. You have led change with and through people, creating and inspiring innovative solutions and ideas for complex and diverse issues, and service delivery. A relationship builder, you have proven success developing partnerships with internal and external stakeholders across the continuum of care and beyond, including foundations, university/colleges, public agencies and others. You have demonstrated your commitment to continuous quality improvement and learning, and excel at human and fiscal resource management. Your successful record of achievement as a leader includes your demonstrated collaborative leadership skills as per the LEADS in a caring environment framework including demonstrated excellence in leading self, engaging others, developing coalitions and achieving results.
Preferred Qualifications:

Graduate degree in health services leadership, business administration, or evidence of working to completion of the same. Previous Director/Executive Director experience leading operational zone and/or provincial programs. Previous experience leading medicine and emergency programs.

Please note:

All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.

Security Screening:

A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.

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Everything we do at AHS reflects a patient and family centred approach; it\'s about putting patients\' and families\' experiences, priorities and trust first.

We are an equal opportunity employer. AHS values the diversity of the people and communities we serve and is committed to attracting, engaging and developing a diverse and inclusive workforce.

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