Clinical Practice Leader, Medicine — High-Reliability Care

Humber River Health; Toronto; On-site; CAD 119,000 - 144,000; Full time

Job summary

Humber River Health is seeking a Clinical Practice Leader to drive excellence in medicine through leadership, education, and research. You will partner with the Professional Practice team to optimize real time data use, analytics, and staff competency to enhance patient care quality.

The role requires strong nursing credentials, clinical leadership, and ability to mentor staff while maintaining high reliability standards across the hospital.

Qualifications

• Master's in Nursing, or related field required. Candidates who are actively pursuing their Master's will be considered.
• Current registration and membership in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO).
• Membership with the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario.
• A minimum of five years of relevant nursing experience in acute care, medical/surgical in a community based hospital.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certifications.
• Demonstrated experience in Adult education to design, deliver and evaluate educational programs.
• Demonstrated strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with physicians, inter-professional team members, and other stakeholders.
• Possesses highly developed analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills.

Responsibilities

• Advocate for use of best practices for clinical staff.
• Guide clinical staff in the interpretation and implementation of professional and practice standards.
• Monitor and evaluate staff and program compliance with professional best practices and standards to identify and resolve issues with the delivery of quality, safe patient care and compliance with professional standards; refer complex issues to Director for resolution; adjust practice changes as they occur to bring staff to new standard.
• Develop reports of staff disciplinary actions for submission to regulatory health professional colleges and professional associations in collaboration with Manager and Director.
• Develop project plans, requirements, testing and implementation plans, resources and interdependencies, monitor implementation.
• Collect data on practice needs (e.g. programs, care interventions, policies, standards in clinical area) to identify gaps in nursing practices, competencies, and service quality; develop educational strategies, plans, and content (e.g. policies, processes, technologies) in consultation with unit leadership team and clinical staff; and evaluate post-training outcomes.
• Conduct impact analysis to determine training and education activity and program interdependencies (e.g. technical Meditech systems use, orientation, accreditation, hand hygiene, new or updated care and treatment standards) and keep staff updated with new practices, skills, and certifications in assigned clinical areas.
• Coach/mentor clinical staff; train new staff during orientation and monitor against best practice standards; recommend disciplinary actions for staff noncompliance with professional and operational requirements and standards to Director and monitor outcomes.
• Recommend and participate in initiatives to improve digital competency
• Review literature for changes to maintain ongoing staff competency.
• Assess quality of care from patients and the healthcare team; develop, implement, and monitor performance benchmarks; compare and analyze data against other facility practices.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Education program design

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

Master's in Nursing

CNO registration

RN Ontario Association membership

BCLS certification

ACLS certification

Tools

Meditech

Job description

Humber River Health is seeking a Clinical Practice Leader to drive excellence in medicine through leadership, education, and research. You will partner with the Professional Practice team to optimize real time data use, analytics, and staff competency to enhance patient care quality.

The role requires strong nursing credentials, clinical leadership, and ability to mentor staff while maintaining high reliability standards across the hospital.