ACA Executive Lead, Acute Care Service Delivery Oversight
Your Opportunity:
You’re a strategic, systems thinker and experienced leader who can build bridges and influence outcomes. Acute Care Alberta (ACA) is seeking someone with these abilities to help ACA deliver acute care and surgical services to Albertans, when and where they need it. In the role of Executive Lead, Acute Care Service Delivery Oversight, you will oversee acute care service delivery across the province and help enable health care professionals to do what they do best: care for patients. As the Executive Lead, you will contribute to strategic planning, risk management and compliance, and directly oversee acute care service delivery, including operational oversight, capacity, patient flow, contracting and commissioning, and quality management. This key leadership role sets appropriate benchmarks and reporting in place to ensure the delivery of quality care. As this is a provincial team, this position’s location is negotiable and may be eligible for a remote/hybrid work arrangement. It is an exciting time to join the organization, as the province works to re-imagine and re-organize healthcare administration and delivery. Acute Care Alberta is a new provincial health agency in Alberta that provides active, short-term care services for patients who have a severe injury, illness, urgent medical condition, or are recovering from surgery. Delivering health care and overseeing health operations at hospitals and urgent care centres, ACA ensures that every Albertan receives the care they need as soon as they need it.
Description:
The Executive Lead, Acute Care Service Delivery Oversight (Executive Lead) is accountable for acute care service delivery, including for the commissioning, contracting, performance, reporting, and planning of acute care services. As a member of, and working jointly with the executive leadership team, the Executive Lead will help establish the vision and goals, and provide the leadership required to deliver acute care services across Alberta. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Executive Lead will oversee strategic planning, quality management, operational oversight, contracting and commissioning, and the implementation of mandates related to these functions. The role will hold acute care service providers accountable for meeting service delivery standards, performance targets, reporting, policies, and procedures, while ensuring integration of inputs from service providers related to surgical demand, patient flow and movement, and clinical support services linked to functions within acute care. The Executive Lead will ensure compliance with regulatory requirements while taking proactive risk management measures. The Executive Lead provides strategic recommendations to the Chief Executive Officer and other members of the executive team regarding the provision of acute care services. The Executive Lead establishes and maintains positive relationships with relevant representatives and stakeholders, including government departments and officials, to ensure effective delivery of acute care services, including but not limited to service delivery by Health Service Delivery Organizations (HSDOs) within acute care hospitals, Chartered Surgical Facilities (CSFs), and urgent care centres. Other key relationships include other provincial agencies and service providers.
- Recovery Alberta: N
- Classification: Executive Lead
- Union: Exempt Executive
- Unit and Program: Acute Care
- Primary Location: Seventh Street Plaza
- Location Details: Eligible to work hybrid (on/off site) within Alberta
- Negotiable Location: Provincial
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 11-MAR-2025
- Date Available: 24-MAR-2025
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Bachelor’s degree in health care management, business administration or related health care field. At least 7 years’ senior management experience in health care or other public sector environment.
Additional Required Qualifications:
Demonstrated ability to develop organization strategy and planning, leveraging and modeling innovation and creativity in the approach. Demonstrated ability to lead strategic initiatives and manage change to achieve positive results. Demonstrated leadership abilities, including comfort with decision-making and exercising sound judgement. Ability to influence, negotiate, and mediate resolutions to complex situations. Proven ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of audiences and to foster partnerships with key stakeholders to achieve organizational goals. A proven record of engaging in ethical conduct.
Preferred Qualifications:
Masters degree and acute care operational experience are preferred.
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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