Professional Practice Consultant

 

Medication Safety

Vancouver, BC

 

Are you ready to make a significant impact in healthcare across the province’s specialized programs and services? Reporting to the PHSA Professional Practice and Policy Director, this Professional Practice Consultant role will develop, implement, and evaluate procedures and methods to improve medication safety across PHSA. 

• Lead with Expertise: Provide top-tier leadership and consultation across PHSA programs and departments, championing a culture of quality and excellence in clinical practice.
• Drive Innovation: Support the seamless transition to advanced clinical information systems, ensuring our teams are at the forefront of healthcare technology.
• Collaborate for Success: Work alongside educators, operational leaders, clinical experts, and professional discipline leaders to set ambitious practice goals and deliver outstanding results.
• Be a Change Agent: Act as a systems leader, driving positive change and fostering professional, inter-professional, clinical, and academic excellence within PHSA.

Join us and be part of a forward-thinking team dedicated to transforming healthcare and achieving unparalleled standards of clinical practice and medication safety. Your leadership can shape the future! 

What you’ll do

• Provide leadership in creating, articulating, innovating and sustaining an organization wide vision for inter-professional collaborative practice that emphasizes highest quality, family-centred care. Support strong inter-professional collaboration through the development of structures, processes and mechanisms that support positive patient outcomes. Utilize and model effective change management strategies to achieve systems level transformation.
• Support organizational strategy deployment, ensuring that professional practice priorities are aligned with PHSA and provincial strategic priorities. Track, analyze and report progress in relation to designated performance indicators.
• Ensure professional standards and regulations, practice guidelines and code of ethics for all assigned professions are achieved working in collaboration with discipline leaders. Provide professional practice input and decision making to clinical information system design and implementation, particularly as it relates to scope.
• Participate in policy and procedure development, including those related to clinical informatics, consult and/or participate in system change processes for implementation and evaluation of information systems in practice settings. Participate in design of data collection tools for practice decision-making and record keeping. Participate in determining the impact of clinical information systems on the roles of the inter-professional team to improve the use of informatics within clinical practice, and encourage professionals to develop comfort and competency in technology use in practice.
• Provide leadership for a wide range of projects designed to address PHSA-wide operational goals and vision. In collaboration with PHSA agencies and programs, plan and implement complex projects and initiatives aimed at improving; inter-professional collaborative practice, new technology integration, innovative practice approaches and models of care to enhance patient outcomes. Integrate regulatory or contractual policies and agreements. Direct and supervise the work of contractors and project teams. Assist with operating and capital budget development and develop and manage budgets and contractors related to assigned projects.
• Engage in consultation with professional disciplines at all levels of the organization and beyond the Health Authority to ensure that planned practices are designed to support the maintenance or enhancement of clinical care delivery. Provide systems leadership for effective profession-specific and inter-professional participation by PHSA in advancing practice and/or addressing professional practice issues, including for transition and support of clinical information systems. Promote consistent, quality care to our patients / clients / families across PHSA sites, programs, and professions through standardization, integration, and promotion of evidence-informed best practice.
• Represent the PHSA professional practice portfolio in decision making forums as assigned including internal, external and/or provincial forums for: scope/regulation, education, research, strategic planning, quality and other defined health level initiatives. Remain current with emerging trends in patient care and interpersonal collaborative practice. Develop and maintain professional contacts and networks to facilitate the appropriate disposition of requests for information and support for projects from appropriate disciplines across PHSA, provincially, nationally and internationally.
• Advise and make recommendations regarding trends and opportunities to advance discipline specific and inter-professional collaborative practice or maintain sustainability of the professional workforce. Work closely with the Departments of Learning and Development, Quality, Safety & Risk Management, Academic Planning, Clinical Informatics, clinical programs and other groups on special projects to address clinical practice issues, education needs and retention strategies. Lead and mentor inter-professional dialogue and enhances practice scholarship within and across professional groups. Cultivate new opportunities for clinically based health research, professional and interprofessional presentations and publications in collaboration with agency partners. Participate in quality management initiatives related to patient and health professional data.
• Perform other duties as assigned

What you bring

 

Qualifications

• A level of education, training, and experience equivalent to a Master’s Degree in Nursing, plus five (5) years recent, related experience including two (2) years of leadership experience.
• Current practicing registration as a Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse with the British Columbia College or Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM).
• Informatics training/certification an asset.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the historic and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism on Indigenous Peoples in social and health contexts, including supported by significant knowledge of Indigenous-specific mandates, including clear understanding of and commitment to eradicate Indigenous-specific racism and discrimination and embed Indigenous Cultural Safety and Humility.
• Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the historic and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism and systemic racism on Indigenous Peoples within social and health contexts. This includes understanding how these factors contribute to current health disparities and barriers to care. Show a clear commitment to identifying, challenging, and eradicating Indigenous-specific racism and all forms of discrimination impacting equity-deserving groups within health care settings. This involves familiarity and understanding Indigenous Cultural Safety and Humility recognizing personal biases, institutional barriers, engaging in anti-racism education and training and advocating for systemic change.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of legislative obligations and provincial commitments within Medication Safety contexts found in the foundational documents including Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study - BC Human Rights Code, BC Anti-racism Act and how they intersect across the health care system.

Core Competencies

• Brings an understanding of the Indigenous specific racism and the broader systemic racism that exists in the colonial health care structure, and has demonstrated initiatives in breaking down barriers and ensuring a safe environment ensuring a sense of belonging to all and informed by Indigenous Cultural Safety.
• Awareness of social, economic, political and historical realities of settler colonialism on Indigenous Peoples and familiarity with addressing Indigenous-specific anti-racism, anti-racism and Indigenous Cultural Safety and foundational documents and legislative commitments (the Declaration Act, the Declaration Action Plan, TRC, IPS, Remembering Keegan, etc.).

Skills & Knowledge

• Demonstrated knowledge in facilitation of inter-professional practice.
• Current knowledge of controls on practice, regulatory bodies, and the Health Professions and Occupations Act.
• Knowledge of other health care disciplines and their role in providing care.
• Comprehensive knowledge of PHSA mission, vision, values, strategic directions and goals.
• Knowledge of research processes and methodology.
• Well-developed project planning and management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, and prioritize work, including the ability to adjust to new or unexpected events.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and work collaboratively as a member of an inter-professional team and ability to function as an effective leader, mentor, and facilitator.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate both verbally and in writing, and to work effectively with co-workers, other health care professionals, and with the various PHSA programs.
• Ability to work autonomously and be self-directed and agile in complex and changing environments.
• Ability to work with emerging technologies, including development, implementation, and evaluation.
• Commitment to continuous learning and to participate in and support the learning of others.
• Demonstrated physical ability to perform the duties of the position.

What we bring

 

Every PHSA employee enables the best possible patient care for our patients and their families. Whether you are providing direct care, conducting research, or making it possible for others to do their work, you impact the lives of British Columbians today and in the future. That’s why we’re focused on your care too – offering health, wellness, development programs to support you – at work and at home.

• Join one of BC’s largest employers with province-wide programs, services and operations – offering vast opportunities for growth, development, and recognition programs that honour the commitment and contribution of all employees.
• Access to professional development opportunities through our in-house training programs, including +2,000 courses, such as our San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training course, or Core Linx for Leadership roles.
• Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including municipal pension plan, and psychological health & safety programs and holistic wellness resources.
• Annual statutory holidays (13) with generous vacation entitlement and accruement.
• PHSA is a remote work friendly employer, welcoming flexible work options to support our people (eligibility may vary, depending on position).
• Access to WorkPerks, a premium discount program offering a wide range of local and national discounts on electronics, entertainment, dining, travel, wellness, apparel, and more.

Job Type: Regular, Full-Time

Salary Range: $108,147 - $155,461/year. The starting salary for this position would be determined with consideration of the successful candidate’s relevant education and experience, and would be in alignment with the provincial compensation reference plan. Salary will be prorated accordingly for part time roles.
Location: 1333 W Broadway, Vancouver, BC V6H 1G9
Closing date: Applications accepted until position is filled
Hours of Work: 08:00-16:00 (Monday to Friday)
Requisition #: 198461E

 

What we do

 

The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) plans, manages and evaluates specialized health services with the BC health authorities to provide equitable and cost-effective health care for people throughout the province. Our values reflect our commitment to excellence and include: Respect people – Be compassionate – Dare to innovate – Cultivate partnerships – Serve with purpose.

 

Learn more about PHSA and our programs: jobs.phsa.ca/programs-and-services

 

PHSA is committed to equity in our hiring and employment practices. With learning and compassion, we are addressing existing inequities and barriers throughout our systems. PHSA is seeking to create a diverse workforce and to establish an inclusive and culturally safe environment. We invite applications and enquiries from all people, particularly those belonging to the historically, systemically, and/or persistently marginalized groups identified under the B.C. Human Rights Code.

 

One of PHSA’s North Star priorities is to eradicate Indigenous-specific racism, which includes dismantling barriers to health care employment at every level. We welcome Indigenous individuals to apply and/or contact the Sanya'kula Team (Indigenous Recruitment & Employee Experience) for support at indigenous.employment@phsa.ca.

 

Indigenous-specific anti-racism initiatives are rooted in addressing the unique forms of discrimination, historical and ongoing injustices, and marginalization faced by Indigenous peoples. These initiatives align with an Indigenous rights-based approach, recognizing the inherent rights and self-determination of Indigenous communities. PHSA must uphold legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents such as including Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study.

 

Attention current employees of PHSA:

 

You must apply via your internal profile at http://internaljobs.phsa.ca.

 

The internal job posting expires on May 12, 2026 and will no longer be accessible. If the internal job posting has expired, please e-mail internaljobshelpu@phsa.ca with the six-digit job requisition number and your PHSA employee ID number to be considered as a late internal applicant. Please do not apply for the external job posting.

 

If you have not yet set up an internal profile, please e-mail internaljobshelpu@phsa.ca with your PHSA employee ID number to obtain your temporary password. Our business hours are Monday-Friday 8:30am-4:30pm, excluding Statutory Holidays and a Help Desk Representative will respond to you with 1-2 business days.

 

If you are not a current employee of PHSA and require assistance with your application, please contact the External Careers team at careers@phsa.ca.