Clinical Planner - Redevelopment Projects

Fraser Health Authority

Burnaby, BC

Number of positions available : 1
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Published on November 15th, 2024
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Description

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $45.46 - $65.35 / hour
Job Summary

The Burnaby Hospital Redevelopment Project is a multi-phase project that will transform the hospital into a modernized medical and surgical health care campus. Phase one is slated to open in spring 2025 and phase two in 2030.

Highlights of the two-phase redevelopment project include:

Expanded Emergency Department with additional treatment spaces
New health care pavilion with 83 beds to support maternity, neonatal intensive care, medicine and mental health patients
New operating rooms, procedure rooms and recovery spaces
New acute care tower with 160 beds
New medical imaging department
New integrated BC Cancer Centre

Burnaby Hospital plays an essential role to those living in the community by delivering a variety health care services. Services and specialties include emergency medicine, intermediate-level critical care, medical imaging, internal medicine, hospitalist medicine, geriatric medicine, neurology, gastroenterology, palliative, psychiatry, oncology, outpatient clinics, and an extensive surgery program with anesthesia, orthopedics, general surgery, ENT, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, urology and plastics specialties.

Position Highlights:

Bring your demonstrated planning and collaboration skills to this exciting opportunity as a Clinical Planner - Redevelopment Projects within Burnaby’s Redevelopment Team. In this role, you will coordinate the master planning of assigned service areas within the hospital. The plans you create will be used in development of project requirements, throughout the design process, and for post-occupancy evaluation of the built environment; you will participate through all these stages. Your ability to work effectively and in collaboration/consultation with internal and external groups will make you an ideal candidate for this role.

Build on your education and career experience as you:

Lead the planning and design of facilities for assigned service areas; working with both internal and external groups.
Assess the clinical and/or operational requirements of user groups by researching benchmarks and best practices, and through operations analysis of service delivery.
Work closely with the Clinical Operations team to facilitate clinical scope and practice change to ensure alignment of the clinical operations planning activities with the built environment.
Prepare functional programs and assist the project team with facilities design decisions as they relate to clinical and operational service delivery.

Your background includes:

Bachelor's degree in a clinical health science discipline
Five (5) years' recent related clinical experience including two (2) years' experience in a health care leadership role responsible for the clinical planning of health care facilities or health care project management

An equivalent combination of education, training and experience is acceptable

This full time position is based at the Burnaby Hospital Redevelopment office, located in Burnaby, BC.

We are committed to staff wellness and planetary health and have active working groups to support these initiatives. In addition, we value career advancement and offer professional development and education opportunities.

Detailed Overview

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:

Facilitates the submission and approval of capital work and various strategic initiatives by leading and preparing assigned aspects of clinical planning for project proposals and business case developments for the designated Redevelopment project; responsible for reviewing and coordinating assigned project charters, business case and functional program development, needs analysis and design phase reports for assigned clinical initiatives; works with the project planning team to ensure alignment of current, emerging and best practice clinical requirements with associated clinical support services for each initiative.
Responsibilities

Coordinates the master planning of assigned clinical initiatives by consulting with clinical/research/ academic programs, hospital/community services and other user groups to secure information to assess and identify clinical needs; works with internal and external stakeholders to develop documents such as project charters, business case and functional programming development.
Assesses the clinical requirements of the user groups by reviewing appropriate clinical benchmarks, research and best practice to ensure identified/requested needs are appropriate and includes integration with appropriate clinical support services; assists the user groups and other team members by providing clinical advice and information to facilitate consensus and problem resolution; reviews user specifications to ensure products and systems meet identified/requested clinical and clinical support needs.
Facilitates the approval of assigned clinical and strategic initiatives by incorporating all project proponents such as business cases, project charters, needs analysis and functional program development into a document for submission to the Fraser Health's Executive and the Ministry of Health Services for funding approval.
Coordinates and provides work direction to the project team to ensure that assigned project activities and cost targets are followed and monitored; works with user groups to complete assigned tasks to meet target dates and to identify clinical issues and/or deviations from the approved plan; prepares justification papers for all requested changes to established plan to be submitted for follow-up action.
Works closely with the Clinical Transformation team to facilitate clinical scope and practice changes to ensure the alignment of clinical planning and clinical support activities with the project objectives and the strategic direction of Fraser Health.
Prepares functional programs and assisting the project team with facilities design decisions as they relate to clinical service delivery; coordinates the review of user space and functional needs by consulting with user departments to assess and identify equipment needs; develops equipment specifications to meet user needs and conform to established purchasing standards and polices.
Prepares monthly status reports that reflect clinical planning projects, process, timelines, milestones, clinical issues and risks.
Assists with the development of construction phase activities including the coordination of departmental moves and temporary operations during construction; coordinates corporate moves with the Fraser Health's user groups, as needed.
Conducts meetings with user groups, and steering committees and liaises with project teams and external stakeholders such as regional and government officials, as required.
Coordinates the inter-departmental assessment, redesign and/or formulation of clinical and operational systems by establishing and evaluating simulated scenarios designed to test the training systems, procedures and equipment in the new environment.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in a clinical health science discipline, supplemented with five (5) years' recent related clinical experience including two (2) years' experience in a health care leadership role responsible for the clinical planning of health care facilities or health care project management, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Competencies

Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities:

Demonstrated ability to work effectively both independently and in collaboration/consultation with others
Comprehensive knowledge of health care delivery systems.
Knowledge of project management principles and methodologies.
Strong analytical, critical thinking and evaluation skills
Ability to supervise and provide work direction to others
Ability to organize and prioritize work in a dynamic environment with changing priorities
Ability to develop and maintain rapport with others
Ability to persuade, provide leadership and guidance to others
Ability to operate related equipment including related software applications
Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.

About Fraser Health

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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