Clinical Practice & Service Integration Lead
Location
Winnipeg, MB | Canada
Job description
Job Number: 151
Department: Impact & Innovation
Job Type: Full Time
Close Date: 03/21/2024
Professional Areas: Career Opportunities
Salary Range: $68,269 - $92,363
CLINICAL PRACTICE & SERVICE INTEGRATION LEAD, HUDDLE
Help build a network of support for young Manitobans seeking integrated and accessible mental health, substance use and overall wellness services
The Huddle initiative is a platform for complex, multi-stakeholder systems transformation and collective impact. The overall goal of the initiative is to fundamentally transform how Manitoba youth and families access and experience youth mental health, substance use and overall wellness supports and services. Manitoba’s Huddle initiative is grounded in the internationally recognized Integrated Youth Services (IYS) model and movement, and works closely with similar initiatives across Canada through a federal network known as the Federation of Integrated Youth Services Networks (FIYSN)
United Way Winnipeg serves as the Administrative Host and Backbone Structure (Team) for the Huddle initiative. This role involves convening multiple partners and stakeholders and working to drive transformational systems change through: research, resource development, communication and knowledge mobilization; inclusive, culturally-sensitive and meaningful engagement of IYS partners including youth, families, service providers, policy makers and funders; systems thinking, continuous improvement and social innovation, including change management and sophisticated co-design processes, and, comprehensive, measurement-based evaluation, reporting and service planning
As a senior member of the Huddle Backbone Team, the Clinical Practice & Service Integration Lead provides clinically focused leadership, expertise, and guidance to furthering the Huddle IYS Initiative’s shared vision of integrated, youth focused mental health, substance use and overall wellness services. This position brings an experienced and innovation focused mental health, substance use and overall wellness lens to the task of co-designing service pathways that successfully integrate the delivery of western bio-medical based clinical services, Indigenous wellness practices and social services in Huddle youth hubs across the Youth Hub Network
The Clinical Practice & Service Integration Lead recognizes the importance of undertaking this work in a deeply collaborative manner with a broad range of IYS partners and stakeholders, including government, health, social services, community, and Indigenous leadership, and researchers, as well as youth and families. This position works to foster meaningful collaboration, IYS research and evidence-based practice, as well as the development and utilization of tools, systems, standards and/or frameworks that support measurement-based care, and an IYS model grounded in a learning health system approach
Reporting to the Executive Director, Huddle, this role:
- Utilizes a collective impact approach and a range of skills to lead and support the clinical and cultural wellness aspects of service integration, systems change and co-design efforts for the Huddle initiative.
- Provides leadership, clinical expertise and support to Huddle initiative’s priorities including establishing the Huddle initiative as a Learning Health System, and the implementation, utilization, and continuous improvement of an initiative-wide measurement-based care data platform.
- Provides leadership in the development of IYS service descriptions, guidelines and standards to support evidence-based practice and integrated service delivery.
- Works to establish and provide leadership, direction and support to active and highly engaged networks of IYS clinical service providers (Communities of Practice) across the Huddle Network.
- Works to establish and provide leadership, direction and support to a range of Huddle initiative working tables and committees focused on furthering service integration, systems change and combining Indigenous ways of knowing and being with the bio-medical approaches of western medicine.
- Works to support the exploration, development, utilization and planning for technology and digital solutions and tools to support service integration (including data platforms, virtual service delivery options and digital assessment tools)
- Works with Huddle Backbone Team to develop, implement and monitor key IYS performance indicators, clinical tools, and data sets.
- Works with a broad range of government departments, healthcare officials, and Indigenous leaders and knowledge keepers to explore systems transformation opportunities, monitor trends, and continuously further IYS knowledge mobilization.
- Works to integrate and further the Huddle initiative’s core values in all aspects of this work to further the initiative’s shared vison of IYS hubs where have a safe space to be authentically themselves and people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, ethnicities, faiths, race/nationalities, and abilities are welcomed and respected.
Qualifications
The
Clinical Practice & Service Integration Lead is a high-energy team player with a passion for innovation, systems transformation, and the potential of the integrated youth services (IYS) model and movement to improve overall health and wellness outcomes for youth and families. You are a person who takes initiative, leads by example and can build strong and productive working relationships with a broad range of Huddle initiative partners, stakeholders and staff teams
The ideal candidate will bring the following qualifications or an equivalent combination of education, related experience, skills and interests:
- Masters degree in a relevant health care field and /or health care administration
- Demonstrated clinical expertise and experience, preferably in a youth and /or young adult health care environment focused on mental health and /or substance use and overall wellness services
- Significant experience working in progressively senior roles with health focused networks, coalitions, multi-partnered projects, and/or collective impact initiatives.
- Demonstrated working knowledge of Manitoba’s health care system and service delivery models, particularly in the area of youth mental health and substance use.
- Demonstrated understanding of Indigenous wellness practices and culture as intervention, as well as trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and barrier-free service delivery.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the Integrated Youth Services (IYS) model and movement
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of a measurement-based care approach and the concept of a learning health system.
- Demonstrated exemplary communication, networking, and relationship management skills.
- Demonstrated people skills and expertise in building, nurturing and working successfully with a range of IYS partners and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize workload based on sometimes shifting and emerging factors and deadlines.
- Demonstrated ability to work as an effect and collaborative member of a diverse and high functioning multidisciplinary team.
United Way Winnipeg offers opportunities for personal and professional growth in a rewarding career! We offer excellent benefits including free health and dental coverage, a defined benefit pension plan, paid sick leave and a great vacation package. We also have a flexible work environment with remote work capability and are a fun and supportive workplace
United Way Winnipeg is committed to achieving and maintaining a workforce that reflects the demographics of the communities we serve. Applicants are encouraged to self-declare
We are committed to providing an inclusive, barrier-free work environment, beginning with the hiring process. Individuals applying for employment with United Way Winnipeg may request accommodations at all stages of recruitment and employment from Human Resources. All information received as it relates to accommodation will be kept confidential
Please include a cover letter and resume with your application. Closing date for this opportunity is March 22, 2024
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$68.27k - $92.36k per year
