Manager, Community Health Services

Island Health; Parksville; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health authority in Parksville is seeking a Manager of Community Health Services to lead clinical operations. This role includes planning, organizing, and delivering community health services, ensuring integration and accessibility of care. Candidates should have a BSN or equivalent, a master's degree is preferred, along with seven years of healthcare experience in management. Strong leadership, planning, and quality improvement skills are essential. This position offers the opportunity to shape patient care at a strategic level.

Qualifications

• Seven (7) years health care experience including supervisory/management.
• Ability to develop quality improvement principles.
• Effective multi-site program service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Plan and direct community health services delivery.
• Lead integration of care across the geographic area.
• Ensure policies comply with professional and Island Health standards.

Skills

Administrative integration

Quality improvement

Leadership and management

Strategic planning

Education

BSN or relevant health discipline

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Job Description

NOTE: This job applies to a manager responsible to provide clinical and operational leadership to a front‑line clinical patient care department or health program that is delivered through multi‑disciplinary health care teams in a hospital and/or community‑based direct patient/client care setting. The departments are large with the Manager Clinical Services/Program Operations directly supervising at a minimum nurses at the Level 4 or 5 classification/wage rate.

In accordance with the Vision, Purpose, and Values, and strategic direction of the Vancouver Island Health Authority (Island Health) patient and staff safety is a priority and a responsibility shared by everyone; as such, the requirement to continuously improve quality and safety is inherent in all aspects of this position.

The Manager, Community Health Services, is responsible for all aspects of planning, organizing and directing the delivery of community health services in the geographic area.

The Manager is a key leader within the Geographic area portfolio. This position provides leadership in the delivery of client care with a focus on coordination and integration of services across the geographic area. It ensures a program‑wide perspective in access to care and allocation of resources. Manages, directly and through delegation, the professional and clinical practice of staff, the quality of care and ensures departmental policies and procedures comply with professional, legal, and Island Health standards.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education, Training And Experience: A level of education, training and experience equivalent to a BSN or a degree in a relevant health discipline. Masters degree preferred. Seven (7) years health care experience including several years at the supervisory/management level.

Skills And Abilities

• Ability to integrate administrative, professional and operational aspects of the program in an effective and efficient manner.
• Ability to develop an environment where quality improvement principles are embraced and used on a continuous basis.
• Ability to lead and manage, to motivate, delegate and operate in both structured and unstructured situations.
• Strong planning skills, strategic and operational.
• Ability to work with delegates to provide program services at multiple sites in a regional setting.

LEADS in a Caring Environment Framework: https://cchl-ccls.ca/pld-leads/the-leads-framework/

Link To Full Job Description: https://jd.viha.ca/JD5536.pdf