Quality Leader, Clinical Quality and Safety

Job description

Description JOB SUMMARY: Reporting to the Director, Quality, Safety and Improvement, the Quality Leader provides specialized skills in the support of achieving Vancouver Coastal Health’s (VCH’s) organizational and quality improvement strategic direction. The position provides expertise and support to clinical operations, corporate services and unit-based teams directed at improving the safety and quality of care and patient experience at VCH. The position ensures that initiatives are aligned with organizational goals, objectives and improvement priorities. The Quality Leader promotes the development and enrichment of an organization-wide improvement culture, and works as part of the team to achieve outcomes, provide leadership to specific projects, support the identification of system improvement opportunities, support the development of knowledge, and the use of quality improvement methods and tools to improve work processes. The Quality Leader functions at all levels of the organization, across all programs and sites, partners with point-of-care teams (physicians, nursing, and allied care) and interacts with senior leadership, clinical directors, patient and resident care managem...