careers-carepartners is hiring an Integrated Clinical Specialist: Palliative Care and Oncology

About the Role

Role details below.

Responsibilities

• Champions a culture committed to patient-centered, high-quality, and integrated care.
• Promotes and maintains the application of standards of care, best practice, and core competencies in palliative care and oncology practice in home and community care.
• Leads the design, implementation, and evaluation of the palliative care and oncology program at local branches aligned with current standards, evidence-based practice, organizational needs, and external customer requirements.
• Collaborates with interprofessional patient care teams, operations, and quality and professional practice leadership to support implementation of local, regional, and provincial strategies that advance excellence in clinical outcomes from a population health lens.
• Implements evidence-based care using an integrated care delivery approach, including understanding and elevating the roles of all health care professionals (e.g., Personal Support, Therapies, and Nursing).
• Maintains clinical competency in palliative care and oncology.
• Utilizes instructional design concepts and approaches to develop, deliver, and coordinate palliative care and oncology care education.
• Incorporates adult education principles into palliative care and oncology education programs.
• Develops and implements coaching and mentoring programs to ensure delivery of best practices.
• Provides palliative care and oncology expertise to diverse populations.
• Facilitates and champions innovative practices, approaches, and programming in alignment with CarePartners research initiatives.
• Participates in the development, maintenance, and monitoring of quality practice indicators to ensure ongoing practice fidelity.
• Supports CarePartners’ strategic priorities relevant to professional practice and ensures leadership is informed of emerging trends in technology, health care, and adult education pertaining to palliative care and oncology.
• Participates in an on-call rotation for remote support with members of the clinical practice specialist team.
• Provides high-quality clinical palliative care and oncology consultation and professional practice to internal and external stakeholders such as local and provincial Patient Care and Operations and Professional Practice leadership, acute care, Ministry of Health (e.g., Ontario Health at Home and Ontario Health Teams).
• Collaborates with local CarePartners branches to identify issues and trends regarding practice gaps and develops proposals, in collaboration with leadership, to mitigate activities and ensure alignment with high-quality patient-centered practice and programming expectations.
• Provides strategic advice on palliative care and oncology practice and programming issues and themes.
• Provides consultancy service and support to leadership and frontline staf