Executive Director, Workplace Health & Safety

at  PHSA

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WORKPLACE HEALTH & SAFETY

People and Culture, Corporate Services
Hybrid Opportunity
You are an experienced occupational health professional with a penchant for organizational transformation, achieving results, and continuous learning. Colleagues know you for your strong collaborative leadership style, persuasive negotiation skills with ability to achieve consensus, genuine desire to listen to diverse perspectives, and ability to take plans from concept to implementation. You’re equally invested in both health and safety, with a people-first perspective in building and achieving action plans. If you’re looking for an incredible leadership opportunity, this role reaching across British Columbia may be the perfect “what’s next” for your workplace health and safety career!

WHAT WE DO

The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) plans, manages and evaluates specialized health services with the BC health authorities to provide equitable and cost-effective health care for people throughout the province. Our values reflect our commitment to excellence and include: Respect people – Be compassionate – Dare to innovate – Create equity – Be courageous.
Learn more about PHSA and our programs: jobs.phsa.ca/programs-and-services
PHSA is committed to anti-racism and equity in our hiring and employment practices. With learning and compassion, we are addressing existing inequities and barriers throughout our systems. PHSA is seeking to create a diverse workforce and to establish an inclusive and culturally safe environment. We invite applications and enquiries from all people, particularly those belonging to the historically, systemically, and/or persistently excluded groups identified under the B.C. Human Rights Code.
One of PHSA’s North Star priorities is to eradicate Indigenous-specific racism, which includes ongoing commitments to Indigenous recruitment and employee experience as well as dismantling barriers to health care employment at every level. We welcome Indigenous individuals to apply and/or contact the Sanya’k̓ula Team (Indigenous Recruitment & Employee Experience) for support at indigenous.employment@phsa.ca.
Indigenous-specific anti-racism initiatives are rooted in addressing the unique forms of discrimination, historical and ongoing injustices, and exclusion faced by Indigenous peoples. These initiatives align with an Indigenous rights-based approach, recognizing the inherent rights and title of BC First Nations and self-determination of all First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities. PHSA is mandated to uphold legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents including the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study.

The Executive Director, Workplace Health & Safety reports to the Vice President, People and Culture and is a member of the senior leadership team. This role is accountable for the Workplace Safety & Prevention and Disability Management portfolios within People and Culture, which reach across the Provincial Health Services Authority’s (PHSA) province-wide programs. The Executive Director guides the overall strategic leadership in the provision of Workplace Safety & Prevention and Disability Management functions, with responsibility for operations and strategic planning, and represents PHSA in internal and industry initiatives. High-level accountabilities include:

• Actively guides, contributes and works in partnership with senior leadership team colleagues in the overall strategic leadership and the planning, development and management of the department strategy, goals and objectives for PHSA and its agencies, services and divisions. Makes decisions that have broad implications and complexity, ensures consistency with PHSA’s overall strategic plan, alignment with the MoH priorities, and works within the boundaries of government legislation and policies as well as provincial standards and agreements.
• Provides strategic leadership and expertise and develops long and short-term plans; aligns portfolio goals and objectives to the overall strategic direction of HR within PHSA.
• Collaborates with leadership to ensure cross functional HR network teams are integrated and collaborative in their approach to providing consistent and qualitative service to clients.
• Drives results through integrating practice and approaches across PHSA, building on practice and extending it to all, exploring opportunities and leveraging resources, and cultivating innovation including the development of standard operating procedures and systems/processes.
• Leads staff in growing partnerships with clients and facilitating consensus to plan and deliver on specific programs and services. Negotiates both internally and externally to PHSA on a formal basis, enters into contracts and letters of understanding on behalf of PHSA, and makes decisions involving complex and diverse issues.
• Oversees the portfolio teams to successfully provide expert counsel, high quality services, act as a business partner, and to embody and support PHSA values. Provides leadership to staff through coaching, guiding and modelling key behaviours/strategies, encouraging dialogue and providing guidance and advice to facilitate resolutions to work issues.
• Develops and monitors an annual budget includes operating, project/temporary funding, and budgets; monitors overall portfolio budget performance, plans and adjusts operations and/or staffing to meet projections and annual targets, and approves expenditures and preparing summary reports.