PROVINCIAL PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LEADER, MEDICAL RADIATION TECHNOLOGIST

BC Cancer
Provincial, BC
Reporting to the Director of Professional Practice Allied Health, the Provincial Professional Practice Leader (PPPL) provides expert leadership, consultation, advice, and assistance to programs and departments across the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) on projects and initiatives designed to support a quality practice environment, excellence in clinical practice, research, education, and leadership. The role collaborates with a wide variety of people internal and external to the Health Authority, including educators, operational leaders, clinical and professional discipline leaders to identify desired practice outcomes; develop, implement, and monitor work plans/projects and supports project staff.
As a systems leader and change agent, the PPPL is responsible for providing leadership, consultation, and direction for professional, inter-professional, clinical, and academic practice across PHSA on behalf of an assigned grouping of professional disciplines. The PPPL liaises with professional discipline clinicians/leaders and other partners, representing PHSA professional practice contributions in decision-making forums.

WHAT WE DO

BC Cancer provides comprehensive cancer control for the people of British Columbia.
BC Cancer is part of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA).
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 (and program) are 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 Stud

• Provide leadership in creating, articulating, innovating, and sustaining an organization wide vision for inter- professional collaborative practice that emphasizes highest quality, family-centred care. Supports strong inter-professional collaboration through the development of structures, processes and mechanisms that support positive patient outcomes. Utilizes and models effective change management strategies to achieve systems-level transformation.
• Support organizational strategy deployment, ensuring that professional practice priorities are aligned with PHSA and provincial strategic priorities. Tracks, analyzes, and reports progress in relation to designated performance indicators.
• Ensure professional standards and regulations, practice guidelines and code of ethics for all assigned professions are achieved working in collaboration with discipline leaders. Provides professional practice input and decision making to clinical information system design and implementation, particularly as it relates to scope.
• Participate in policy and procedure development, including those related to clinical informatics, consults and/or participates in system change processes for implementation and evaluation of information systems in practice settings. Participates in design of data collection tools for practice decision-making and record keeping. Participates in determining the impact of clinical information systems on the roles of the inter- professional team to improve the use of informatics within clinical practice and encourages professionals to develop comfort and competency in technology use in practice.
• Provide leadership for a wide range of projects designed to address PHSA-wide operational goals and vision. In collaboration with PHSA programs, plans, and implements complex projects and initiatives aimed at improving inter-professional collaborative practice, new technology integration, innovative practice approaches and models of care to enhance patient outcomes. Integrates regulatory or contractual policies and agreements. Directs and supervises the work of contractors and project teams. Assists with operating and capital budget development and develops and manages budgets and contractors related to assigned projects.
• Engage in consultation with professional disciplines at all levels of the organization and beyond the Health Authority to ensure that planned practices are designed to support the maintenance or enhancement of clinical care delivery. Provides systems leadership for effective profession-specific and inter-professional participation by PHSA in advancing practice and/or addressing professional practice issues, including for transition and support of clinical information systems. Promotes consistent, quality care to our patients / clients / families across PHSA sites, programs, and professions through standardization, integration, and promotion of evidence-informed best practice.
• Represent the PHSA professional practice portfolio in decision making forums as assigned including internal, external and/or provincial forums for: scope/regulation, education, research, strategic planning, quality, and other defined health level initiatives. Remains current with emerging trends in patient care and interpersonal collaborative practice. Develops and maintains professional contacts and networks to facilitate the appropriate disposition of requests for information and support for projects from appropriate disciplines across PHSA, provincially, nationally, and internationally.
• Advise and makes recommendations regarding trends and opportunities to advance discipline specific and inter-professional collaborative practice or maintain sustainability of the professional workforce. Works closely with the Departments of Learning and Development, Quality, Safety & Risk Management, Academic Planning, Clinical Informatics, clinical programs, and other groups on special projects to address clinical practice issues, education needs and retention strategies. Leads and mentors inter-professional dialogue and enhances practice scholarship within and across professional groups. Cultivates new opportunities for clinically based health research, professional and interprofessional presentations and publications in collaboration with agency partners. Participates in quality management initiatives related to patient and health professional data.