Palliative Care Provincial Clinical Network (Pcn) Physician Lead

Job Description

Palliative Care Provincial Clinical Network (PCN) Physician Lead Opportunity:
A Palliative Care Provincial Clinical network, under the leadership of a physician and operational leader dyad, will be launched this spring.

• Harness clinical expertise and leadership, as well as patient experience for specific health conditions and patient populations.
• Transform evidence into practice and decrease variation in care standards by engaging clinicians and care teams to align evidence-informed clinical care throughout the care continuum.
• Improve communication by knitting together pockets of good work to spread leading practices. Reduce re-work by connecting associated initiatives, task forces, and working groups.
• Accelerate innovation through partnerships and engagement of partners at all levels of the Health System. PCNs will be a mechanism to understand what opportunities exist, look at new ways of tackling problems/issues, and rapidly test and spread innovation.

Job Qualifications

We are recruiting for a physician co-lead for the Palliative Care Provincial Clinical Network. Duties:

• Collaborate with SHA Leaders on the PCN leadership team to set a vision, build, and sustain a Provincial Clinical Network. Co-create the PCN's shared purpose, priorities, work plan, and project teams.
• Build, through engagement, collaboration and support, a network of committed and motivated physicians and clinicians to participate in PCN project teams, initiatives, and community of practice.
• Support the PCN community of practice through presentations, recruiting content experts for community of practice presentations, promoting attendance, and encouraging co-creation and problem-solving.
• Include care equity principles in PCN clinical practice improvements.
• This position reports administratively to the Deputy Chief medical Officer
• "The successful candidate will have advanced knowledge and experience in evidence-based Palliative Care, including assessment, management, treatment, and patient- and family-centered compassionate care."

Additional Information

Term of positions: 18 months.
Compensation: $160.47 per hour.

Please submit your CV to:
April Matlock, Recruitment and Retention Specialist, Practitioner Staff Affairs
April.Matlock@saskhealthauthority.ca