Director, Nursing Practice Excellence

Location

London, ON | Canada

Job description

Posting Period

February 9, 2024 - March 7, 2024

Who We Are

London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is a world-class academic health sciences centre located in the southwestern Ontario city of London. Just two hours from Toronto and two hours from Detroit, London features a beautiful and walkable downtown core located on the Thames River, a vibrant culinary scene and scores of activities that highlight local arts, culture and music. As one of Canada’s largest acute-care teaching hospitals, LHSC delivers world-class care and experiences, built on our commitment to excellence in research, innovation, and learning. In partnership with our communities, we design and advance healthcare to support he wellness of the populations we serve. LHSC delivers both local and regional services, including the Children’s Hospital, within a large geographic area. LHSC is known for its great people and great care, with a workforce of close to 15,000, dedicated to delivering the highest quality patient care while partnering with communities to transform health, one life at a time.

What the Role is

Reporting to the Corporate Nursing Executive, and working in a team of four directors, the Director, Nursing Practice Excellence provides evidence-informed leadership and direction to inform and implement strategic nursing priorities across the organization, achieve nursing practice excellence, strengthen systematic organization-wide competency-based nursing education and skill-building, understand and address organization-wide nursing issues, and support the advancement of innovation in nursing practice at LHSC.

The Director, Nursing Practice Excellence, creates internal and external partnerships to strengthen nursing and promote effective interprofessional practice. They will identify and advance strategies to support the recruitment and retention of nurses. In supporting nursing excellence and innovation, the Director is expected to collaborate and partner with various teams and committees focused on patient safety and quality of care, occupational health and safety, health ethics, workplace health, information technology, and health equity and inclusion, as well as with regional partners. They advocate for and build capacity to support individual and organizational compliance with nursing-related legislative and regulatory requirements, and work to identify and address related concerns. The Director consistently contributes to a safe and inclusive working environment, and engages in effective change and transition management practices.

This particular role is accountable to a portfolio responsible for overseeing and supporting Nursing Practice Excellence within the below programs:

• Surgical Services
• OR, PACU and Day Surgery Units
• Paediatric PACU
• Critical Care and Level Two Care
• Adult Emergency Services
• Multi-Organ Transplant Program

The Director provides leadership to and operational oversight to approximately 20 employees including Clinical Educators and Professional Practice Consultants. The office for Nursing Practice Excellence is located at Victoria Hospital.

LHSC is committed to the principles of hybrid work and may offer this option to employees whose work can be performed in an alternate location, without adverse impact to the operations of the Hospital, inclusive of our Staff and Patient experience. Confirmation of hybrid work options available to you will be clarified upon hire and may be subject to change based on the duties required of your position. Successful candidates will be required to perform work within Ontario and must be available to work on location, as required.

NOTE: this role is required to be on-call, evenings and weekends on a rotational basis within the Director On-Call model across LHSC.

Who You Are

• You are self-aware of own assumptions, values, principles, strengths and limitations
• You manage and develop self while modeling qualities such as honesty, integrity, resilience, and confidence
• You engage and support others to foster development, personal goals and encourage a healthy organization
• You achieve results by strategically aligning direction, decisions, actions and evaluation with the vision, values and evidence
• You facilitate an environment of collaboration and cooperation
• You create connections, build partnerships and networks
• You demonstrate a commitment to the organizational vision, mission, values and service excellence
• You are a transformational thinker that encourages and supports innovation
• You have exceptional analytical skills that contribute to effective decision-making
• You are self-directed, courageous, and highly motivated with excellent interpersonal and effective communication skills
• You have demonstrated knowledge of and expertise in leading and facilitating large-scale change and transition to improve clinical practice, person-centred care, and patient outcomes
• You have expertise in evidence-informed decision-making, strategic and operational planning, implementation, and evaluation
• You have expertise in and demonstrated commitment to building individual and organizational capacity for nursing excellence and a quality and safety culture, and inspiring continuous improvement
• You have demonstrated understanding of and ability to promote adherence to nursing-related legislation, regulations, and standards in an acute care setting
• You have demonstrated ability to deliver results with excellent financial and quality management, project management and risk management experience
• You have demonstrated participatory and values-based leadership
• You have demonstrated ability to develop and sustain effective teams, with expertise in and commitment to developing self and others through coaching, mentoring and formal processes
• You have shared leadership skills with the ability to foster collaboration and shared direction among diverse clinical and non-clinical groups
• You have the ability to work with a diverse group of leaders and stakeholders with demonstrated success in moving key stakeholders to positive resolution
• You have experience being a leader of leaders with capacity to develop other leaders to their full potential
• You are self-directed, courageous, and highly motivated with well-developed critical thinking, problem-solving, leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
• You have demonstrated expertise in creating and sustaining a healthy, positive, inclusive and safe work environment for all people, including those from diverse backgrounds

What You Will Bring with You

• Successful completion of a recognized Master’s Degree in Nursing preferred; will consider applicants who are currently enrolled and working towards this Master’s program
• Current Certificate of Registration from the College of Nurses of Ontario
• At least six (6) years of experience in progressive leadership roles in a healthcare environment, preferably in an acute care academic teaching hospital
• Experience managing competing demands in a fast-paced, multi-site, multi-disciplinary health care environment
• Members of the Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL) who have, or are in process of attaining the Canadian Health Executive (CHE) Select certification program preferred
• Fluent and computer literate with computer systems such as email and Microsoft Office applications (MS Word, Excel & PowerPoint)
• Demonstrated ability to attend work on a regular basis

London Health Sciences Centre fosters a culture of patient and staff safety whereby all employees are guided by LHSC's Mission, Vision, Values and Code of Conduct.

LHSC is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from women, visible minorities, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, and members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. We are committed to providing persons with disabilities equal opportunities and standards of goods and services, and are also fully compliant with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (2005), as applicable.

Submission Requirements (please submit in one MS Word document)

• Cover Letter, Resume and Listing of Education, Credentials and Certifications

As part of the assessment process applicants may be required to complete a written examination or test. Please be advised that reference checks may be conducted as part of the selection process.

Successful candidates will be required to complete a health review which includes providing vaccination records or proof of immunity against Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella (Chicken Pox), Hepatitis B, Tetanus/Diphtheria/Polio; Meningitis. In addition, candidates will need to provide documentation of Tuberculosis Skin testing and a completed COVID vaccine series (two vaccines).

Your interest in this opportunity is appreciated. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Successful candidates, as a condition of job offer, would be required to provide a satisfactory police information check (original document) completed in the last 6 months.

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