Palliative Care Clinical Coach – TFT

at  Hamilton Family Health Team

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SUMMARY:

Classification: Non-union
Primary Location: Hamilton; Hybrid work
Schedule: Monday-Friday
Employee Class: Temporary Full-Time
Date Available: ASAP
Salary: $85,000 – 95,000

• Provide palliative care coaching and mentoring to staff and clinicians in participating community organizations, to build primary-level palliative care competencies.
• Collaborate with leaders of community organizations on local service integration, and change management initiatives, using quality improvement methodologies to achieve results.
• Consult on clinical care when the complexity of the patients’ needs is beyond the existing competencies of providers (in the community organizations).
• Provide support to Indigenous communities and Indigenous organizations for their implementation efforts, where Indigenous communities wish to be involved, in collaboration with regional partners.
• Co-create the regional Delivery Framework implementation plan with Ontario Health, including required measurement and reporting.
• Attend all regional planning meetings and contribute to the regional palliative care implementation plan, especially plans for education and practice change.
• Provide feedback on key learnings related to coach role, along with providing input and reviewing regional progress reports as required.
• Foster regional collaboration and contribute to broader system integration.
• Develop relationships with key partners to establish trust, credibility, and respect.
• Support Ontario Health Team planning and/or implementation of palliative models of care (where there is readiness).
• Ensure alignment of community implementation with the guidance of the Ontario Palliative Care Network.
• Critically evaluate the quality of palliative care in participating community organizations.
• Lead engagement and community-building activities with participating organizations.
• Build competency amongst front-line community providers in the delivery of primary-level palliative care.
• Offer consultation as a palliative care expert to service providers in person, onsite, by telephone, by videoconference or through email.
• Provide support to Indigenous communities and organizations for their implementation efforts, as requested by those organizations and, where appropriate, in collaboration with regional partners
• Guide the creation of a quality improvement plan to address gaps.
• Provide limited and occasional direct patient care.