Implementation Lead | MHSU Clinical Network

Interior Health Authority; Kelowna; Remote; CAD 91,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remuneration package

Career prospects

Training and education

Vacation

Insurance premiums

Health coverage

Work-life balance

MPP contribution

Job summary

Interior Health Authority is hiring three term-specific, full-time Implementation Leads, MHSU Clinical Network to guide strategic initiatives across Mental Health and Substance Use services. You will apply change management, project management, and stakeholder engagement to drive sustainable improvements.

The role is primarily virtual with planned travel for in-person consultations and regional team support within the IH region.

Qualifications

• Experience in complex healthcare environments.
• Ability to translate policy, legislation, and best practices into practice.
• Strong change management and project coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical consultation and education for policies and standards.
• Support development of clinical decision tools and education frameworks.
• Identify opportunities and gaps; participate in IH groups.
• Maintain knowledge of legislation and policy updates.
• Collaborate with IH Quality, Patient Safety, and MHSU networks.
• Ensure safety and health policies are followed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Healthcare leadership

Change management

Project coordination

Job description

Interior Health is hiring three term-specific, full-time Implementation Leads, MHSU Clinical Network, with positions ending approximately April 30, 2028. In this role, you will lead the implementation of strategic initiatives across Mental Health and Substance Use services, applying change management, project management, and engagement principles to support sustainable clinical and operational improvements.

This role works primarily virtually, with planned travel to provide in-person consultation and team-based support across the Interior Health region. The ideal candidate will bring experience within complex healthcare environments and the ability to translate policy, legislation, and best practices into practice across a range of service areas.

Location:

This position offers a flexible work arrangement within the Interior Health region.

What We Offer

• An attractive remuneration package
• Excellent career prospects
• Employer paid training/education
• Employer paid vacation
• Employer paid insurance premiums
• Extended Health & Dental coverage
• Work-life balance
• May be eligible to contribute to MPP, if previously enrolled within 30 days

The salary range for this position is $90,770 (min) to $113,462 (midpoint) to $130,48 (max) per annum, based on 1.0 FTE. Interior Health typically establishes salaries within the minimum and midpoint of the salary range based on qualifications, experience of the applicant, and an internal equity review of the salaries of other employees.

How Will You Create An Impact

The Implementation Lead, MHSU Clinical Network provides clinical consultation and team-based support to the programs and services within the area of responsibility to advance quality improvement of client centered care, compliant with the Adult Guardianship and Mental Health legislation. This role will work alongside clinical operational teams, together with Interior Health (IH) Quality and Patient Safety and IH Mental Health and Substance Use Network (MHSU). The Implementation Lead has a strong understanding of legislation, policy, and process implementation; providing education, consultation and guidance as aligned with provincial standards, health authority priorities, and local initiatives.

What Will You Work On

• Works alongside clinical operations, together with IH Quality and Patient Safety and IH Mental Health and Substance Use Network, providing consultation, education, and applying change management and quality improvement principles, in accordance with Adult Guardianship and Mental Health legislation (i.e. Mental Health Act, Adult Guardianship Act, Healthcare Consent and Care Facility Admission Act). This includes active involvement in team meetings, education initiatives, and operations to maintain alignment, support change management, and continuity between organizational goals and day-to-day operational needs.
• Provides or supports connection to clinical consultation, education, and recommendations in the development of policies, processes, procedures, strategies, and priorities, ensuring that proposals are robust, operationally feasible and can be expected to deliver a clearly described person-centered benefit and quality service delivery. This includes regional and site-specific guidance and development of clinical decision support tools, clinical operational standards, and creation and execution of clinical educational frameworks for clinical practice standardization within the assigned portfolio.
• Continuously review the operating environment to identify opportunities and/or gaps, identify solutions, and recommend priorities within existing approved plans, strategies, and organizational priorities. This may require participation in IH working groups and committees.
• Maintains a strong working knowledge of current legislative amendments, policies, procedures, and evidence-based practice.
• Follows a standardized and legislative approach to participate in or lead the development of indicators for the assigned portfolio in collaboration with Clinical Operations and as required, other portfolios across IH. Monitors and responds to changing health status needs. Collects, compiles, analyzes, and interprets statistical data to monitor program outcomes, enhances compliance with legislative requirements, and identify emerging issues and trends.
• Liaises and informs collaborative relationships with internal and external partners, programs, and portfolios.
• In alignment with IH's Occupational Health & Safety Program, employees shall adhere to all Occupational Health and Safety policies and procedures at all times and attend all required training. Employees are responsible to report any identified hazards, unsafe conditions or incidents to the manager or supervisor immediately.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

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Honouring Interior Health's commitment to Truth and Reconciliation and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), and Pursuant to Section 42 of the BC Human Rights Code, preferential consideration and/or hiring will be given to qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit).