Interim Coordinator, PSW Resource Team (approximately 6 months)

London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC); London; On-site; CAD 107,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is seeking a Coordinator for the PSW Resource Team to support patient care across clinical areas. You will coordinate PSW staffing, resources, and workforce planning in collaboration with clinical units, ensuring optimal service delivery and adherence to budgets.

You will report to the Manager, Resource Teams and drive initiatives to strengthen teamwork, risk management and healthy workplace culture while maintaining strong relationships with internal

Qualifications

• Leadership and team-building experience in healthcare settings.
• Strong strategic planning and resource management skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across units.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate PSW staffing and resources across clinical areas.
• Manage day-to-day department activities within approved budgets.
• Foster a healthy workplace and collaborate with other teams.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

People management

Healthcare knowledge

Communication

Education

Baccalaureate degree in health care

Post-graduate education

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Salary: $107,113.50 - $133,906.50 per year

Who We Are

For 150 years, London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) has been a leader in world-class care. As an acute tertiary and quaternary teaching hospital, LHSC provides leading-edge medical care to people from across western Ontario and beyond. LHSC is located just two hours from Toronto and two hours from Detroit in the city of London which is known for its beautiful and walkable downtown core located on the Thames River, a vibrant culinary scene and scores of activities that highlight local arts, culture and music. Our team of more than 17,000 physicians, staff, learners and volunteers works tirelessly to support patients as they navigate their unique health-care journeys. As one of Canada’s largest acute-care teaching hospitals, LHSC is a renowned centre of innovation with a history of groundbreaking research that has influenced how people are cared for around the world. With nearly 1 million annual patient visits across University, Victoria and Children’s Hospitals, LHSC provides compassionate leading-edge care and is proud of our strong regional, national and international partnerships. For more information, please visit www.lhsc.on.ca.

What the Role Is

The Personal Support Worker (PSW) Resource Team is a supportive service, deploying PSWs to clinical areas throughout LHSC. This team of professionals has diverse and versatile skills that enable them to support patient care as members of a collaborative care team in a variety of settings. The PSW Resource Team works closely with all clinical units to align resources equitably and to support use of the PSWs to their full scope of practice. The Coordinator will play a role in supporting the PSW Scope for all PSWs in conjunction with the clinical units.

Reporting to the Manager, Resource Teams, the Coordinator, PSW Resource Team is accountable for day-to-day department activities, including the management of human and material resources, day-to-day staffing and scheduling, development and support of a healthy workplace, risk and utilization measurements, and facilitation of improvement initiatives and change management, while operating within approved operational budgets and financial guidelines and controls. A major focus of the role is fostering effective working relationships and networks within the team/unit and with other teams across the organization.

Who You Are

• You are self-aware of own assumptions, values, principles, strengths and limitations
• You manage and develop self while modeling qualities such as honesty, integrity, resilience, and confidence
• You engage and support others to foster development, personal goals and encourage a healthy organization
• You achieve results by strategically aligning direction, decisions, actions and evaluation with the vision, values and evidence
• You facilitate an environment of collaboration and cooperation
• You create connections, build partnerships and networks
• You demonstrate a commitment to the organizational vision, mission, values and service excellence
• You are a transformational thinker that encourages and supports innovation
• You have exceptional analytical skills that contribute to effective decision-making
• You are self-directed, courageous, and highly motivated with excellent interpersonal and effective communication skills

What Skills Are Needed

• Planning and executing action plans that deliver results and motivate individuals for greater performance excellence
• Strong business acumen
• Values-based leadership and a proven track record for developing and sustaining healthy work environments and effective teams while leading in a performance-driven culture
• Lead and drive system transformation
• Develop self and others through teaching, coaching, mentoring and formal development processes
• Strong analytical skills that contribute to effective problem solving and decision-making

What You Will Bring with You

• Successful completion of a recognized baccalaureate degree program in a health care related discipline preferred
• Related post-graduate education preferred
• Minimum two (2) years' experience in progressively more responsible leadership roles in a healthcare environment, preferably in an acute care academic teaching hospital
• Minimum three (3) years' experience in healthcare preferred
• Fluent and computer literate with computer systems such as email and Microsoft Office applications (MS Word, Excel & PowerPoint)
• Demonstrated ability to attend work on a regular basis

*Consideration for an interview will be given to an education and prior experience assessment

Reason for Posting: Existing Vacancy

Your interest in this opportunity is appreciated. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Successful candidates, as a condition of job offer, would be required to provide a satisfactory police information check (original document) completed in the last 6 months.

Immunization Requirements

Before beginning employment at LHSC, all new hires must provide documentation related to LHSC's Health Review Requirements. For more information and a detailed list of requirements, please visit Health Review Requirements | LHSC.

Additional Information

London Health Sciences Centre fosters a culture of patient and staff safety whereby all employees are guided by LHSC's Mission, Vision, Values and Code of Conduct.

LHSC does not use artificial intelligence (AI) to screen, assess or select applicants for a position.

LHSC is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from women, visible minorities, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, and members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. We are committed to providing persons with disabilities equal opportunities and standards of goods and services, and are also fully compliant with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (2005), as applicable.