Provincial Chief Medical Officer

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Inc; Winnipeg; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Inc is seeking a senior manager to lead health-services delivery with a focus on strategic change, program development, and quality improvement within a large healthcare setting. The role requires extensive leadership across multi-disciplinary teams and complex stakeholder engagement.

Ideal candidates will have a medical background, postgraduate education, and demonstrated success in implementing improvements in public health administration.

Qualifications

• High-level communication and interpersonal skills.
• Leadership within a multi-disciplinary healthcare team.
• Experience in strategic change and program management.
• Diplomatic skills to facilitate stakeholder outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead health-services delivery programs across the organization.
• Drive strategic change and continuous quality improvement.
• Manage multi-disciplinary healthcare teams and stakeholder relations.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Diplomacy

Education

Medical Degree

Post-graduate medical education

MBA/MPA/Health Admin (asset)

Process Improvement (asset)

Job description

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Site: Shared Health - 330 Portage Avenue

Department / Unit: SH Newport- Medical Specialist Services

Job Stream: Non-Clinical

Union: Non Union

Anticipated Start Date: ASAP

FTE: 1.00

Anticipated Shift: Days

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Daily Hours Worked: 7.75

Annual Base Hours: 2015

Shared Health leads the planning and coordinates the integration of patient- centered clinical and preventive health services across Manitoba. The organization also delivers some province-wide health services and supports centralized administrative and business functions for Manitoba health organizations.

Position Overview

Experience

• Ten (10) years of progressively senior management roles in the provision of health services delivery.
• Five (5) years of recent experience with program management, preferably in a large health service delivery organization.
• Experience in project management complemented with demonstrated skills in continuous quality improvement activities.
• Demonstrated leadership skills within a multi-disciplinary healthcare team.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, develop, and lead strategic change.

Education (Degree/Diploma/Certificate)

• Medical Degree.
• Post-graduate medical education.
• Master’s degree in Public Administration, Business Administration, Health Administration or equivalent an asset.
• Process Improvement training, EXTRA Certification, or equivalents an asset.

Certification/Licensure/Registration

• Medical license from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba.

Qualifications and Skills

• High level communication and interpersonal skills.
• Operational knowledge of the full spectrum of medical services and programs.
• Knowledge of the health authority model.
• Knowledge of management principles for the public sector, private sector and not-for -profit sectors.
• Knowledge of clinical and non-clinical programs within healthcare.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to manage in a complex unionized environment.
• Diplomatic skills which include the ability to facilitate mutually beneficial solutions with various stakeholders are required.
• Demonstrated leadership skills within a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, develop and lead strategic change.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to work safely in a typical computerized office environment with frequent meetings, and to lift and carry items of up to approximately 25 pounds.
• Interruptions from key stakeholders are common; the incumbent can schedule dedicated and focused time for planning and concentration.
• Travel to other health care facilities throughout the province requiring a valid Manitoba driver’s license and use of a personal motor vehicle.

We have a unique ability to work together to make health care better. If you want to make a difference and contribute to supporting the health of your family, friends and neighbours,

This position requires a current satisfactory Criminal Records Check (including Vulnerable Sector Search), Child Abuse Registry Check and Adult Abuse Registry Check as conditions of employment. The successful candidate will be responsible for any service charges incurred. A security check is considered current if it was obtained no more than six (6) months prior to the start of employment.

Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions in Shared Health that combine to equal more than 1.0 FTE.

Shared Health values and supports employment equity and workplace diversity and encourages all qualified individuals to apply. We thank all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.

Manitoba healthcare employers, in partnership with the Indigenous community, are committed to increasing the representation of Indigenous People within all levels of our workforce. Indigenous applicants are encouraged to apply and to voluntarily self-identify as being of Indigenous descent in their cover letter/application.