Senior Consultant
Your Opportunity:
Reporting to the Program Lead within Clinical Services Integration and Patient Flow Supports, the Senior Consultant is a provincial role accountable for leading system optimization and improvement, change management, integration and implementation of complex initiatives including scaling and spreading of provincial initiatives with system partners. Working independently with minimal guidance, the Senior Consultant may supervise staff within the portfolio, lead functional teams and collaborate with a variety of partners, including but not limited to: patient and family advisors, healthcare providers, Health Agencies, and Health Service Delivery Organizations. The Senior Consultant may also support and inform the strategic direction set out by leadership in Patient Navigation & System Integration (PNSI); and works to ensure PCA values, goals and principles are implemented and integrated within all projects and initiatives.
Description:
This position will work as part of a passionate and diverse team of system transformers that work towards strengthening integrated primary health care within Alberta’s provincial health system. Through partnership and co-design, this role will lead the design and enable adaptation of new and/or improved ways of delivering health care that serves the needs of people in the community. Complex system initiatives will be supported by establishing and leveraging shared working and governance structures with one and provincial partners across organizations. The Senior Consultant will support alignment and coordination of Primary Care Alberta (PCA) priorities by bringing expertise in facilitation and meeting design, human centered design practices, strategic planning, governance building, patient engagement, change management and person-centred practices while collaborating with others with similar and diverse expertise across the system. This position will use data to inform and support planning and implementation of integration priorities and is committed to meaningful engagement with patients and families as true partners in co-design to help transform the health care system.
- Acute Care Alberta: N
- Primary Care Alberta: Y
- Recovery Alberta: N
- Classification: Senior Consultant
- Union: Exempt
- Unit and Program: Clinical Services Integration and Patient Flow Supports
- Primary Location: Southport
- Location Details: Eligible to work remotely within Alberta
- Negotiable Location: Provincial
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 03-JUN-2025
- Date Available: 16-JUN-2025
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $37.82
- Maximum Salary: $64.86
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Baccalaureate level degree with minimum of 5 years experience in a healthcare related field. A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with progressive responsibility in area of expertise in a related environment, preferably within health care. Demonstrated leadership experience in a health care or related environment. Experience in planning and implementation in a healthcare organization. Demonstrated pattern of professional and personal development. Team leadership skills, including demonstrated ability and comfort with decision making responsibilities, coaching and teaching, and the ability to inspire and build confidence in others. Proven ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team environment and with a broad spectrum of stakeholder (both within and outside of the organization). Demonstrated ability to foster relationships and partnerships with internal and external partners, including patients/clients, families and caregivers.
Additional Required Qualifications:
Demonstrated commitment to and application of patient engagement and Person-Centred Care principles and practices in a health care setting. Education and demonstrated abilities in change management, quality improvement practices and methodologies, and person-centred practice. Knowledge and demonstrated experience in facilitation or coordination of project management: execution, reporting, monitoring and evaluation. Knowledge and evidence in change management principles with proven ability to foster a culture of change acceptance, adoption and advocacy. Ability to understand complex health issues through research, analysis and evaluation of best evidence. Requires exceptional verbal, written and listening skills to comprehend, create and communicate concepts and options to a broad variety of people at different levels of the organization who have different skills and expertise. Ability to develop and facilitate presentations to convey information or transfer knowledge. Demonstrated ability to work independently within a large, complex organization with a variety of staffing groups. Demonstrated needs identification, gap analysis, critical thinking skills, decision-making and innovative problem solving. Demonstrated abilities in conflict resolution and management. Excellent computer skills including expert knowledge of Microsoft Word, Power Point, and Excel required.
Preferred Qualifications:
Masters level degree. Formal training and certification in change management, project management and/or improvement methodologies.
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.
