Senior Practice Consultant

The Senior Practice Consultant in the Interprofessional Practice Regulation team (IPR) provides provincial consultation on interprofessional health legislation, regulation, and practice, leads provincial initiatives including interprofessional clinical policy development. The Senior Practice Consultant has expertise in clinical practice and health legislation with the proven ability to lead provincial committees and working groups and collaborate with diverse stakeholders. The IPR team is within the Health Professions Strategy & Practice (HPSP) provincial portfolio led by the VP, People, Health Professions, and Information Technology. HPSP supports healthcare providers in delivering safe, consistent and quality health services to Albertans. HPSP offers resources and services to clinicians and leaders to enhance professional practice, clinical education, workforce planning and service planning. IPR is an inter-professional team who partner with healthcare providers and operational leaders within AHS and external partners, such as the regulatory colleges, to advance interprofessional clinical practice and regulatory standards. The IPR team provides leadership, an interprofessional approach, and a regulatory lens to complex provincial projects and consultations regarding clinical best practice and scope of practice. The IPR team provides provincial support and team members are and can be located throughout the province despite what location is described in the posting. The Senior Practice Consultant reports to the Executive Director, Policy, Regulation and Student Placements.

This position provides direct support and counsel to the Executive Director, Policy, Regulation and Student Placements, Health Professions Strategy and Practice on all aspects of the work associated with inter-professional practice and regulatory consultation, including inter-professional practice consultation related to clinical informatics. The Senior Practice Consultant provides project leadership and consultation to healthcare providers, leaders, and others as required on inter-professional practice, including professional regulations, standards, scope of practice, competency, clinical education, policy, and clinical informatics. The Senior Practice Consultant develops and maintains strong working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders (including government, regulatory bodies, and academic institutions) to provide inter-professional health regulatory and practice consultation service and when required, leadership, to provincial committees, working groups, and initiatives/strategies. The Senior Practice Consultant is also responsible for participation and when required, leadership in developing, implementing, and evaluating: Inter-professional and health discipline specific policy, standards, procedures, guidelines, protocols, and education that align with strategic provincial direction. Strategic provincial initiatives, particularly provincial clinical information systems and clinical informatics as it relates to inter-professional practice and regulation.

A minimum of a master’s degree with post-secondary education qualifications in a regulated allied health discipline and appropriate registration with a regulatory college in Alberta. A minimum of 5 years recent experience in clinical healthcare, leadership, and/or practice consultation, in an organization of significant size, complexity, and diversity. Experience and knowledge of national and provincial healthcare inter-professional legislation, regulation, and standards.

Experience in successfully leading policy, procedure, protocol, and guideline planning, development, education, implementation, communication, and evaluation. Experience in successfully leading the planning, development, implementation, communication, education, and evaluation of complex strategic local and provincial projects and initiatives. Proven ability to foster collaborative partnerships, build solid relationships, and achieve organizational goals with colleagues, healthcare providers, working groups, committees, leaders, and stakeholders, in-person and virtually. Effective interpersonal, verbal and written communicator with proven ability to create and deliver presentations to diverse committees/groups and write as well as edit documents, briefing notes, project plans and reports. Organized, can prioritize, manage competing priorities and think critically. Able to analyze, interpret, describe complicated and complex problems and determine options for solutions. Patient and family centered focused, with demonstrated commitment to providing responsive, quality services. Demonstrates a clear pattern of advanced professional and personal development. High skill level in Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, Project, Publisher, MS Teams, Zoom, and Sharepoint.

Knowledge and experience of using a clinical information system in clinical practice. Knowledge and experience with change management (PROSCI).