Job Description

Your Opportunity:

SCNs are engines of innovation reshaping health care in Alberta by focusing on what patients need, supporting local examples of high quality care and spreading it provincially, and using scientific evidence to guide care decisions. Through this, the SCNs aim to improve the patient experience and health outcomes, while progressively contributing to creating a high performing health system in Alberta. SCNs are not designed to be 'top-down' structures that simply implement programs and projects. Instead, SCNs proactively engage key stakeholders to support innovation and improvement in health and health care aligned with needs and opportunities identified by the frontline and patients and families. Specifically, SCN's aim to align, support, and empower teams of clinicians, strategy and policy leaders, operational leaders, researchers, patients and families, and other important community leaders and stakeholders with the appropriate tools, accountability, responsibility and authority for shared clinical, strategic and tactical decision-making in AHS. The breadth and depth of the SCN membership is extensive including physicians, clinicians, patients and families, external partners such as Universities, Alberta Health, Alberta Innovates, non-governmental organizations, etc. As a network, evidence-informed, sustainable, and safe health care is our collective goal.

Description:

The Critical Care SCN Manager plays a key role in stakeholder relations, planning, organizing, and the execution of provincial initiatives and activities. The Manager develops, fosters, and maintains strong collaborative working relationships with the SCN leadership, network members, senior healthcare leaders, provincial and zone-based clinical and operational leaders, front-line staff and physicians, representatives from a variety of support groups, patient and family advisors, and many other internal/external key stakeholders. The Manager provides expert advice and operational solutions to ensure stakeholder needs are met and future needs anticipated. The Manager is responsible for directly managing some of the human resource aspects of the CCSCN initiatives and operational work. This may include project staff recruitment and selection, training/orientation, development of performance objectives, performance evaluations and coaching, as well as all aspects of performance management. The Manager provides varying degrees of direct and indirect management and guidance to other key operational groups – requiring them to build and manage relationships to meet SCN objectives. In addition, the Manager is assigned accountability to oversee established operational, project, and grant budgets to ensure these are kept on track according to approved project plans and charters. The CCSCN Manager position is unique in that in addition to the required management responsibilities and high-level strategic thinking, this position is also critical in maintaining the day-to-day operations of the CCSCN and advancing the many activities and initiatives of the CCSCN.

• Classification: Manager
• Union: Exempt
• Unit and Program: Critical Care SCNs
• Primary Location: Alberta
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Negotiable Location: Provincial
• Employee Class: Regular Full Time
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 26-AUG-2022
• Date Available: 12-SEP-2022
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 10
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
• Minimum Salary: $34.52
• Maximum Salary: $59.20
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications: 10 years of varied professional experience which includes at least 2 years of leadership experience in an organization of significant size, complexity and diversity. Experience working in a critical care environment is an asset. Successful leadership experience in project management environments including project planning, execution, reporting, monitoring and evaluation. Ability to use extensive clinical informatics expertise for developing evaluation and measurement framework, designing reports to meet the needs of various stakeholders. Extensive experience managing in a cross-functional team environment, with skill in managing several teams at once. Effective communicator with positive influential skills. Experience in the participation of senior level planning, research projects or teams, project analysis, outcomes, report development and dissemination of results.
Additional Required Qualifications: Comfortable working and communicating with physicians, nurses, and senior leadership delivering difficult messages and working toward collaborative resolution. Experience initiating and fostering positive relationships and partnerships with key internal and external stakeholders. Demonstrates critical thinking – interprets organization/external industry challenges and recommends best practices to improve processes or services. Ability to work independently with guidance in only the most complex situations. Experience in resource management including planning and budgetary accountability. Proven abilities in complex problem solving, concerns resolution, investigation, and negotiation. Ability to think strategically, taking into account short and long-term goals assessing options and implications. Strong organizational skills to manage multiple projects on tight deadlines.
Preferred Qualifications: Demonstrated success in managing projects, programs and people. Demonstrated knowledge in project management methodologies. Demonstrated knowledge in change management methodologies. Demonstrated knowledge in process/quality improvement methodologies. Demonstrated pattern of professional and personal development.