Regional Manager, Virtual Health

Position Summary
Are you interested in an opportunity to grow professionally within a positive and progressive culture? Northern Health is seeking a champion with management and leadership experience to join us!

The Regional Manager, Virtual Health is responsible for leading the planning, design, implementation, promotion, and evaluation of care delivery transformation that utilizes Virtual Health and enabling technologies to connect care teams, including the patient. The Regional Manager, Virtual Health builds and strengthens partnerships with multiple stakeholders, including clinical service areas across Northern Health, to transform care delivery models, including proof of concept projects, full integration within clinical operations, and evaluation in order to increase access to high quality, innovative, appropriate services and to enhance the quality of care across Northern Health services. The Regional Manager, Virtual Health leads a team of staff, as well as project teams, to ensure developments are clinically led and enabled by technology while maintaining collaborative relations with clinical leaders, staff, physicians, Professional Practice and other relevant stakeholders to ensure quality patient care is maintained and that clinical needs are met.

Starting salary will be approximately from $106,026 to $132,533 and will be based on education, training, experience, and salaries of similar positions.

Prince George Prince George is the centre of business, education, health and culture for northern British Columbia and services a rural population of about 300,000. The region’s economic growth and diversification strategies are creating outstanding opportunities for investors, employers and employees. Affordable housing, land prices and transportation costs, due to short and quick commutes; result in one of the lowest costs of living for a city of its size in the province. Additionally, wage rates fall above provincial averages, providing residents of Prince George with a high standard of living in one of BC’s most beautiful regions. The city itself is the 4th largest in British Columbia and has a population of approximately 82,300 local residents and a service centre for nearly 320,000. It is built on the confluence of the Fraser and Nechako rivers. Prince George is the home of the University of Northern British Columbia – Canada’s Green university. The warm, friendly and diverse population attests to a strong and dynamic community spirit. Check out Prince George for more information on what this community has to offer.

What Northern Health has to offer you!
• Comprehensive benefit packages including extended health/dental and a municipal pension plan for part-time and full-time employees. Casuals have the option of paying for benefits.
• Four weeks vacation with one year of continuous service
• Financial Support for Moving Expenses is available for eligible positions
• Employee referral program
• Employer-paid training and leadership development opportunities
• Spectacular outdoor activities and the shortest commutes in BC
• “Loan Forgiveness Programs” are offered through the Federal and BC Government for eligible professions.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
As part of your application process, you will need to upload the following documentation:
• Registration number (if you are part of a regulated profession)
• Any supporting documents regarding education/qualifications for this position.
Examples may include:
• Program certificates or diplomas
• High school/college/university transcripts etc.
• It is also recommended to provide a cover letter and resume

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Qualfications
• Bachelor’s degree in a health care related field, business administration, or health information plus a minimum five (5) years of recent, related experience in a complex health care environment including progressive quality practice, education, project management and leadership experience.
• Or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Skills and Abilities:
• Leadership Competencies:
• Leading People: acting with integrity and trust, building a team environment, communicating clearly,
• fostering potential.
• Leading Change: striving for personal mastery, leading and vision, inspiring and engaging, promoting Innovation.
• Cultural Safety: knowledge and appreciation of current Indigenous health topics and cultural safety for all people to feel respected and safe when interacting with the health system.
• Partnering: focusing on cultural safety person and family centered care and engaging stakeholders.
• Achieving Results: conceptualizing and demonstrating accountability.
• Business Acumen: managing time and utilizing existing resources.
Professional and Technical Competencies:
• Ability to guide, coach, teach, and promote a continuous quality improvement learning environment.
• Strong operational knowledge of the clinical, human and technical variables that affect the planning, development, scheduling and use of virtual health services.
• Demonstrated ability to lead system initiatives, including project planning and management methodologies.
• Skilled in leading responsively in an environment of change and redefinition.
• Comprehensive knowledge of quality improvement principles, theory, and practice including the application in healthcare settings.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including facilitation and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage complex multi-disciplinary teams comprised of internal and external resources.
• Ability to plan, organize and manage priorities to meet tight deadlines.
• Knowledge of health care policy, procedures.
• Proficiency in the use of office software applications as effective tools to achieve results.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
• Strong operational knowledge of the clinical, human and technical variables that affect the planning, development, scheduling and use of e-Health systems.
• Proven ability to exercise sound judgement, especially in working with complex projects and issues.
• Proven ability to provide collaborative leadership to a group made up of diverse interests in order to achieve a common goal.
• Proven ability to work independently and in teams.
• Analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Excellent knowledge of healthcare and services delivered within healthcare.
• A clinical background with demonstrated technical skills and aptitude.
• Excellent analytical skills to determine information systems issues, hardware and software problem diagnosis.
• Demonstrated leadership skills in the area of coordination, planning, project management, and idea generation functions.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to communicate systems/technical issues to non-computer users with a high degree of comprehension.

Who we are
Northern Health covers an area of nearly 600,000 square kilometers and offers health services in over two dozen communities and 55 First Nation’s communities. We deliver hospital and community-based health care for a population of 300,000.
Employing more than 7,000 staff throughout the region, Northern Health provides exceptional health services for Northerners, through the efforts of dedicated staff and physicians, in partnership with communities and organizations in Northern BC.
There is a wide variety of career opportunities available in our two dozen hospitals, 25 long-term care facilities, public health units and many other offices providing specialized services.