Manager, Specialty Education

at  Interior Health Authority

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?:

Interior Health is hiring a Term Specific Full Time Manager, Specialty Education to join our team until March 31, 2025.
If you have a background in education, we want to hear from you! Apply today.
This position is flexible within the Interior Health region.

• Collaborates with internal and provincial partners to provide leadership in the delivery of specialty education across Interior Health region by seeking out and identifying best practices, ensuring appropriate structures, system processes, and resources are in place to facilitate ongoing delivery of specialty education across varying complex practice environments (such as perioperative, perinatal, emergency, critical care).
• Maintains fiscal accountability by collecting, analyzing and monitoring workforce data to identify educational needs within confines of operating budget, ensuring efficient utilization of educational resources that are supportive of meeting workforce training demands and ultimate provision of services. Monitors the budget(s), identifies variances, and takes corrective action as required to maintain expenditures within the approved budget(s).
• Facilitates the development, implementation, and evaluation of specialty education across Interior Health region in alignment with established objective and standards of services, standards and policies. Reviews program delivery processes and ensures that resources are allocated and utilized effectively and efficiently in meeting the specialty education needs of IH.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to identify and assess specialty education needs of the organization identifying appropriate strategies to meet organizational requirements. Evaluates effectiveness of specialty education curriculums to ensure standards and operational clinical needs are being met.
• Recruits, hires, disciplines, and terminates staff as required. Provides mentoring and coaching to staff, completes performance evaluations and prepares staff development, training and succession plans. Administers collective agreements and represents the employer in the grievance process, on various union/management committees, and during essential service situations.
• Identifies the educational needs of staff in the provision of specialty education. Ensures the appropriate mechanisms are in place to support staff in the provision of quality specialty education programs. Communicates with educational personnel regarding identified needs and collaboratively plans the opportunities for professional development.
• Analyses current trends and data in assigned areas of responsibility relating to the provision of accessible, comprehensive, efficient, and effective service. This includes sick time, overtime, casual utilization, WCB, turnover, staff mix, vacation utilization, and vacancies.
• Participates in developments and implementation of quality improvement and pilot initiatives to Conducts regular reviews of specialty education programs and identifies alternative and innovative models of delivery to meet changing organizational needs, while maximizing the efficiency of specialty education funding within the allocated budget.
• Maintains a positive and productive work environment respecting the value of an interdisciplinary team approach to the provision of health services. Promotes the creation of a quality work environment.
• Acts as a change agent within the service, fostering an environment of innovation and critical thinking.
• Represents the specialty education portfolio of the Professional Practice Office on a variety of internal and external Ministry committees as required.
• In collaboration with Human Resources, contributes to the development of a standardized methodology to support the accuracy of forecasting specialty education needs and maintenance of talent management databases for succession planning initiatives.
• Develops and maintains effective methods of tracking specialty education data, including program completion, funding allocation, and recruitment and retention data.
• Provides leadership to identify and facilitate opportunities for integration and partnerships to continuously improve and advance the delivery of specialty education across IH.
• Builds and maintains relationships with operational leaders and staff within IH and other internal and external partners for the purpose of coordinating specialty education.
• Collaborates with individuals and groups in the identification and development of alternate models of delivery and develops plans and/or programs to respond to changing specialty education needs.
• Develops and leads the implementation of streamlined processes for program enrollment and registration and monitors and evaluates processes, implementing changes as required.
• In alignment with IH’s Occupational Health & Safety Program, maintain a healthy and safe work environment through complying with and implementing applicable Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, responding to requests from WSBC, identifying hazards and communicating risks, ensuring compliance with employee training, conducting effective incident investigations and implementing required corrective actions.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
  Honouring Interior Health’s commitment to Truth and Reconciliation and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), and Pursuant to Section 42 of the BC Human Rights Code, preferential consideration and/or hiring will be given to qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit)