Position Summary

Interior Health is hiring three term-specific, full-time Implementation Leads, MHSU Clinical Network, with positions ending approximately April 30, 2028. In this role, you will lead the implementation of strategic initiatives across Mental Health and Substance Use services, applying change management, project management, and engagement principles to support sustainable clinical and operational improvements.

This role works primarily virtually, with planned travel to provide in-person consultation and team-based support across the Interior Health region. The ideal candidate will bring experience within complex healthcare environments and the ability to translate policy, legislation, and best practices into practice across a range of service areas.

Location: This position offers a flexible work arrangement within the Interior Health region.

What we offer:
• An attractive remuneration package
• Excellent career prospects
• Employer paid training/education
• Employer paid vacation
• Employer paid insurance premiums
• Extended Health & Dental coverage
• Work-life balance
• May be eligible to contribute to MPP, if previously enrolled within 30 days

The salary range for this position is $90,770 (min) to $113,462 (midpoint) to $130,48 (max) per annum, based on 1.0 FTE. Interior Health typically establishes salaries within the minimum and midpoint of the salary range based on qualifications, experience of the applicant, and an internal equity review of the salaries of other employees.

How will you create an impact:
The Implementation Lead, MHSU Clinical Network provides clinical consultation and team-based support to the programs and services within the area of responsibility to advance quality improvement of client centered care, compliant with the Adult Guardianship and Mental Health legislation. This role will work alongside clinical operational teams, together with Interior Health (IH) Quality and Patient Safety and IH Mental Health and Substance Use Network (MHSU). The Implementation Lead has a strong understanding of legislation, policy, and process implementation; providing education, consultation and guidance as aligned with provincial standards, health authority priorities, and local initiatives.

What will you work on:
• Works alongside clinical operations, together with IH Quality and Patient Safety and IH Mental Health and Substance Use Network, providing consultation, education, and applying change management and quality improvement principles, in accordance with Adult Guardianship and Mental Health legislation (i.e. Mental Health Act, Adult Guardianship Act, Healthcare Consent and Care Facility Admission Act). This includes active involvement in team meetings, education initiatives, and operations to maintain alignment, support change management, and continuity between organizational goals and day-to-day operational needs.

• Provides or supports connection to clinical consultation, education, and recommendations in the development of policies, processes, procedures, strategies, and priorities, ensuring that proposals are robust, operationally feasible and can be expected to deliver a clearly described person-centered benefit and quality service delivery. This includes regional and site-specific guidance and development of clinical decision support tools, clinical operational standards, and creation and execution of clinical educational frameworks for clinical practice standardization within the assigned portfolio.

• Continuously review the operating environment to identify opportunities and/or gaps, identify solutions, and recommend priorities within existing approved plans, strategies, and organizational priorities. This may require participation in IH working groups and committees.

• Maintains a strong working knowledge of current legislative amendments, policies, procedures, and evidence-based practice.

• Follows a standardized and legislative approach to participate in or lead the development of indicators for the assigned portfolio in collaboration with Clinical Operations and as required, other portfolios across IH. Monitors and responds to changing health status needs. Collects, compiles, analyzes, and interprets statistical data to monitor program outcomes, enhances compliance with legislative requirements, and identify emerging issues and trends.

• Liaises and informs collaborative relationships with internal and external partners, programs, and portfolios.

• In alignment with IH’s Occupational Health & Safety Program, employees shall adhere to all Occupational Health and Safety policies and procedures at all times and attend all required training. Employees are responsible to report any identified hazards, unsafe conditions or incidents to the manager or supervisor immediately.

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

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Honouring Interior Health’s commitment to Truth and Reconciliation and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), and Pursuant to Section 42 of the BC Human Rights Code, preferential consideration and/or hiring will be given to qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit).

Qualifications

Education, Training and Experience
• Master’s degree in a health-related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Five (5) to seven (7) years of recent, related experience, including experience in developing clinical practice documents and developing, implementing, and evaluating clinical large-scale multi-portfolio projects.
• Or a combination of education and experience will be considered.

Skills and Abilities
• Knowledge and ability to work with diverse populations, incorporating diverse perspectives, values, and approaches into planning.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and analyze situations and problems such that viable solutions are found. Approaches challenges and complexities from a systems perspective.
• Demonstrated ability to guide individuals toward a vision while maintaining group cohesion, motivation, commitment, and effectiveness. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated ability to introduce and manage purposeful change that is consistent with the mission, vision, values, and operating principles of IH.
• Demonstrated ability to identify strategies and opportunities in a dynamic environment that lead to identified outcomes.
• Ability to critically analyze and synthesize evidence, and utilization/statistical data.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing, including the ability to facilitate and negotiate. This includes the ability to work and collaborate virtually.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
• Ability to remain flexible and adapt to frequently changing needs and priorities.
• Hold a valid BC Driver’s license and the ability to travel.

Comments

Interior Health is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and to creating an environment free from discrimination. Our goal is to cultivate a workforce rich in culture, experience, and knowledge to enable us to provide high quality, accessible and culturally safe health services to everyone in the Interior Health region. We are committed to addressing existing inequities and barriers to achieving a diverse workforce, one that is representative of the communities we serve. We invite applications and enquiries from all people, particularly those belonging to the historically, systemically, and/or persistently marginalized groups.