Manager Long Term Care Quality and Risk - 18 Month Contract

Sienna Senior Living; Markham; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is looking for a Manager for Long Term Care Quality & Risk in York Region, Canada. You will lead quality improvement processes and manage risks across various communities. The ideal candidate has a Nursing designation and 5+ years in a long-term care or hospital environment. This role offers a chance to significantly impact quality and safety in healthcare. The position comes with other benefits including equity and diversity commitments in the workplace.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Long-term Care or Hospital setting.
• A Nursing Designation is ideal - RPN, RN, NP.
• Expertise in Clinical Quality Assurance.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and implement processes related to Quality & Risk management.
• Monitor and report on performance outcomes in collaboration with leadership.
• Develop policies and procedures for Quality and Risk Manual.

Skills

Clinical Quality Assurance

Quality Improvement Methodologies

Team Leadership

Data Analysis

Education

Nursing Designation (RPN, RN, NP)

5+ years in Long-term Care or Hospital setting

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Job description

At Sienna, we empower our team members across Ontario, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Alberta to help our residents live the life they desire and deserve. Our purpose is simple: to cultivate happiness in daily life!

What Sienna Offers: We aspire to cultivate an environment and culture where team members feel valued, heard and empowered to do meaningful work. We offer a number of programs and benefits that support team members’ financial, personal and professional needs:

What you’ll be doing:

Reporting to the Vice President, Quality & Clinical Services, the Manager, Long Term Care Quality & Risk will be responsible for leading, developing, and implementing efficient evidence based processes and services related to Quality & Risk management nationally within the
organization, and in keeping with relevant legislative standards and regulatory bodies. As part of
the long-term care support office team, the Manager, Long Term Care Quality & Risk
collaborates with regional partners and community leadership to address priority initiatives,
sustain best practices and identifying risk/ mitigate.

• Manages Accreditation Lead and provides direction and guidance to all direct
• Provides subject matter expertise and tactical support to community leadership
  to ensure effective and quality execution of Quality Improvement Plans (QIP) and
  Continuous Quality Reports
• Monitors, reports and responds to clinical/non-clinical indicator performance
  outcomes in collaboration with community leadership and regional partners.
• Coordinate and facilitate the scale and spread of Sienna initiatives and
  improvements across the communities.
• Develop and leverage auditing systems and processes as per the quality and risk
  management program to ascertain compliance, system effectiveness, identify
  improvement opportunities and potential risk, validate improvement/change
  management initiatives
• Analysis, tracking, and trending of quality and risk data collected across Sienna
  Senior Living homes, with follow-up and development of strategies for
  management of identified risks.
• Develops policies and procedures for the Quality and Risk Manual. Oversees the
  quality and risk framework for Long-term Care.
• Support in the development of the key performance indicators for Long-term Care.
• Support with the development of compliance action plans as assigned and validate
  compliance achieved where needed.
• Apply and execute quality improvement methodologies to advance performance
  such as root cause analysis, process mapping, appreciative inquiry, prospective
  analysis (FMEAs), retrospective analysis, PDSA cycles
• Provide direction, plans of action and support to those homes identified as “high”
  risk through the application of Sienna Senior Living’s quality and risk management

Education & Experience:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Long-term Care or Hospital setting
• A Nursing Designation is ideal - RPN, RN, NP
• Expertise in Clinical Quality Assurance
• Experience in successful Accreditation with CARF/Accreditation Canada
• Proficient with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Power BI
• Experience or training in PDCA/PDSA improvement cycle

What you need to know:

• Any offer of employment will be conditional upon a criminal background and references check.
• We will review applications as they are received. Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
• Sienna Senior Living may use artificial intelligence to screen, assess or select applicants for this position
• This posting is for an existing vacancy – Maternity Leave Coverage

Sienna Senior Living is committed to employment equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace. In accordance with provincial regulations, upon request, support will be provided for accommodations throughout the recruitment, selection, and assessment process.