Executive Director
Your Opportunity:
Bring your passion, dedication, and leadership expertise to Alberta Health Services (AHS) as the Site Executive Director (ED) for the University of Alberta Hospital (UAH) portfolio, which includes the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute (MAZ) and Kaye Edmonton Clinic (KEC). As an inspirational leader you will be responsible for the overall operational, and strategic leadership for site related operations. You will continue to foster excellence, teamwork, and compassion for our patients and each other in all of the work you do. You will foster a positive work environment where diversity, equity and inclusion as well as innovation, quality improvement, evidence-based practices and research thrive. A proven strategic leader with strong interpersonal skills, you excel at building high-functioning teams committed to excellence in service delivery, person-centered care and creating partnerships and coalitions across the organization to achieve identified objectives. Direct reports include diverse multidisciplinary teams of Allied Health, Nursing, Continuous Improvement, Volunteers, and Support Services. Located in Alberta’s capital city, Edmonton, the UAH is one of Canada’s leading academic health sciences centres with over 700 beds, multiple specialty services, and a large footprint that extends over four sites. A reputation for research, innovation, education, and patient-centered care and 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. AHS continues to garner recognition as one of the best places to work in Canada and has made the list for Alberta’s Top 75 Employers and Canada’s Best Diversity Employers. We welcome your application to come join our award-winning team!
Description:
Reporting to the Senior Operating Officer, University of Alberta Hospital, Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and Kaye Edmonton Clinic, you will be accountable for leading overall site operations linking the UAH operational and provincial site portfolios towards achieving common goals in a complex and multifaceted environment. As the Site Executive Director, you'll be the major point of contact for all initiatives and issues affecting the site as a whole. You will be accountable for the strategic, clinical, and operational leadership across various domains, including clinical care, capacity and patient flow management, infrastructure, space utilization, facility maintenance, and continuous improvement. You will coordinate site surge plans and emergency management response assuming the role of site commander, in addition to overseeing accreditation, workplace health and safety, and infection prevention control standards. Working with the Facility Medical Director you will collaborate with site, zone and provincial leaders, overseeing the development, implementation and evaluation of cross site, strategic and operational plans. You are instrumental in providing clinical teams with the necessary tools, processes, and environment essential for safe high-quality patient care, linking with Protective Services to ensure staff, physicians and patients are safe. Leading both directly and by influence, you will champion cross site engagement, collaboration, and innovation, creating positive working relationships while encouraging and advancing a culture of safety, diversity, equity, inclusion, and cultural sensitivity. You will be a team player, bringing a strong and experienced voice to the senior leadership table, achieving value-based business results, organizational goals, and strategic vision.
- Classification: Director
- Union: Exempt
- Unit and Program: Site Operations
- 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: 25-MAY-2024
- Date Available: 17-JUN-2024
- 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
The successful candidate possesses a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a healthcare profession and a clinical acute care 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 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 acute care site 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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