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.

• Providing Indigenous Thought Leadership, walks alongside Program and Corporate Leads to support the implementation and evaluation of Action Plans. with the aim of improving patient experience and health care outcomes for Indigenous peoples, ensures alignment with PHSA’s Strategic Plan, Health Standard Organization: Cultural Safety and Humility Standard as well as legislative obligations and provincial commitments of DRIPA, the Calls to Action of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the findings and recommendations of In Plain Sight.
• Participates and when applicable, is the lead for the implementation of CS&T strategic priorities. Collaborates with members of the leadership team by sharing information and proposing recommendations and monitoring timelines that enable the attainment of goals and objectives, consistent with the CS&T strategic priorities.
• Develops networks to build engagement and participation with key partners for strategic initiative work.
• Builds partnerships with Indigenous partners, agencies, and groups across BC, in conjunction with the directors and staff, regarding Indigenous health issues, with the goal of optimizing opportunities for collaboration and ensuring an integrated and coordinated approach to improving health care, cultural safety and patient experience.
• Identifies key components and underlying issues and systematically analyzes problems and determines solutions.
• Synthesizes evidence and aligns multiples ideas and strategies to develop tools and resources to support strategic initiatives (including, but not limited to reports, topic materials, web-based tools, position, policy and white papers, and other documents).
• Works on all phases of project management (including but not limited to coordinating meetings, project planning, privacy impact assessments, CME/ethics applications, evaluation and monitoring of deliverables, presenting to internal and external audiences, preparing reports).
• Utilizes and models effective change management strategies to achieve systems level transformation. Provides leadership and management in the communication and availability initiatives that support language equity and access.
• Participates in the development and monitoring of project budgets within the context of operational demands and environmental and resource constraints and uses best practice methods to thoroughly monitor and adhere to allocated budgets.
• Provides leadership by giving advice or guidance in situations that require interpretation and judgment, supporting change management and increased communications.
• Some travel in the province is required.