Chief Medical Leader (CML), Laboratory Services
Provincial Health Services Authority
British Columbia, Canada

 

 

Make a Provincial Impact

The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) is seeking a dynamic and visionary physician leader to take on the role of Chief Medical Leader, Laboratory Services (CML).

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of laboratory medicine across British Columbia, supporting a coordinated, high-quality, patient-centred, and standardized provincial system.

As CML, you will provide medical leadership across Provincial Laboratory Medicine Services (PLMS), working closely with operational leaders, Medical Affairs, health authorities, and system partners to advance clinical excellence, workforce planning, innovation, and integration.

You will play a key role in provincial planning, governance, and physician engagement, ensuring laboratory services meet the evolving needs of patients, clinicians, and the healthcare system.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

• Lead provincial medical governance for laboratory services
• Shape and execute a provincial clinical laboratory strategy
• Partner with health authorities, government, and academic institutions
• Lead physician workforce planning in collaboration with Medical Affairs
• Support physician engagement, workforce planning, recruitment, resourcing, and performance
• Advance quality, safety, and innovation across the system
• Contribute to academic, research, and teaching initiatives
• Champion patient and family partnership in provincial laboratory planning, quality improvement, and service innovation
  
  
  

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.).

 

What You Bring

• Medical degree with specialty training in Pathology, Laboratory Medicine, or a related field
• Eligibility for licensure in British Columbia
• Proven experience in senior medical leadership roles
• Strong track record of collaboration across complex health systems
• Strategic mindset with the ability to lead system-wide change
• Demonstrates a commitment to beginning and/or continuing their personal learning journey related to Indigenous-specific racism and dismantling systems of oppression, as well as addressing racism more broadly. Shows willingness to articulate and share their learning experiences to contribute to a culture of motivation and inspiration among peers.
• Demonstrates foundational knowledge of the social, economic, and political realities of settler-colonialism and its impacts on Indigenous peoples and equity-deserving groups within social and health contexts. Understands the impact of social determinants of health-on-health outcomes. Shows a commitment to learning about and upholding legislative obligations and provincial commitments outlined in foundational documents such as the 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, Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study, the BC Human Rights Code, Anti-Racism Data Act, and the Distinctions Based Approach.
  
  

Contract Structure

• Contracted physician leadership role (not a standard employee position)
• Term and renewal provisions to be confirmed through Medical Affairs
• Includes administrative leadership responsibilities in addition to any clinical commitments (if applicable)

Support Provided

• Administrative and operational support
• Office space and required technology
• Access to provincial leadership tables and committees

 

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.

• Opportunity to lead at a provincial level.
• Work alongside respected clinical and executive leaders.
• Influence system-wide transformation and innovation.
• Contribute to improving care for patients across British Columbia.
• 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.
  
  

Job Type: Part-Time (0.60 FTE) (flexible structure based on candidate and organizational needs)

Salary: Compensation will be aligned with PHSA Medical Affairs guidelines and applicable physician compensation structures

 

Total compensation will reflect: Leadership accountabilities, Scope and complexity of the role, Candidate experience and qualifications, Existing clinical compensation arrangements (where applicable).

 

 

Compensation may be influenced by the candidate’s home health authority and current clinical contract.

 

Early alignment with Medical Affairs is required to confirm structure and limits prior to offer.

 

Location: Flexible

Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. 

 

What we do

 

 

Provincial Laboratory Medicine Services (PLMS), part of Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), is at the forefront of diagnostic testing in BC, operating across 31 sites in the Lower Mainland and Central Coast. From hospitals to specialty labs within Vancouver Coastal Health, Provincial Health Services Authority, Fraser Health Authority, and Providence Health Care, our dedicated teams deliver fast, accurate results that drive critical patient care and medical innovation. Whether detecting diseases, guiding treatments, or supporting groundbreaking research, PLMS plays a vital role in advancing healthcare and saving lives across the province.
 

 

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 – Create equity – Be courageous.

 

 

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

 

PHSA is committed to anti-racism and 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 excluded groups identified under the B.C. Human Rights Code.

 

 

One of PHSA’s North Star priorities is to eradicate Indigenous-specific racism, which includes ongoing commitments to Indigenous recruitment and employee experience as well as dismantling barriers to health care employment at every level. We welcome Indigenous individuals to apply and/or contact the Sanya’k̓ula 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 exclusion faced by Indigenous peoples. These initiatives align with an Indigenous rights-based approach, recognizing the inherent rights and title of BC First Nations and self-determination of all First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities. PHSA is mandated to uphold legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents including the 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.