Director, Clinical Operations (Community & Hospital)

Director, Clinical Operations (Community & Hospital)

Join our collegial-spirited senior leadership team at Burnaby Hospital as we build for the future of health care in Burnaby. This Director, Clinical Operations’ acute care portfolio will encompass Perioperative Services, which includes the Operating Room (OR), Surgical Day Care, Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), Pre-Admission Surgery Clinic, OR Booking and Central OR Intake. This Director will play a vital role in the Phase 1 Redevelopment for the OR within the Jim Pattison Surgery Centre, leading clinical teams that will be developing the facility activation phase for occupying six new ORs in 2025. This Director will also play a crucial part in the OR renewal project which will result in 10 ORs, 4 procedure rooms, and 41 pre/post-operative bays within a 2028 timeframe. The Director will work collaboratively with staff and medical staff, including the Local Department Heads of Anaesthesia, Surgery, and Obstetrics & Gynecology to support increased access to high quality surgical care for Burnaby Hospital’s patients.

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 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, numerous outpatient clinics; including oncology, and an extensive surgery program with anesthesia, orthopedics, general surgery, ENT, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, urology and plastics specialties.

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.

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

The Director, Clinical Operations provides leadership and direction on strategies, planning, design, implementation, delivery and assessment of assigned clinical department/service within or across a hospital or health services area, or, for a Regional Program across Fraser Health.

Oversees programs/departments/services to support operational leaders, remove barriers to patient transition and foster a culture of patient-centred care across the health care continuum. Partners with physician, clinical and support leaders in the system design, implementation and sustainability of an integrated clinical program to achieve Fraser Health's priority actions supporting the Fraser Health Strategic Operating Priorities.

Works within a network of Regional Programs, centralized services, hospital sites and community health service areas.

Education and Experience

A Master's level of education in a field related to health care management; supplemented with seven (7) to ten (10) years recent related, progressively responsible leadership experience; 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 leadership in roles to lead and move forward complex organizational change issues across health service needs which support broad transformational objectives.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities to incorporate department/site needs within the broader context of the health delivery system and multiple site/service requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to work and lead within a matrix reporting structure.
• Sound working knowledge of planning concepts related to service delivery, budgetary, staffing, quality and strategic initiatives.
• Proven presentation skills within a senior leadership capacity.
• Proven proficiency of leading practice in the field of healthcare leadership.

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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