Integrated Child and Youth Program Leader

Location: Merritt

Interior Health is hiring a permanent full-time Integrated Child and Youth Program Leader who is passionate about making a difference in healthcare.

Location: This position is located in Merritt, BC and travel is involved throughout the Nicola-Similkameen area (Merritt/Princeton).

What we offer:

• An attractive remuneration package

• Excellent career prospects

• Employer paid training/education

• Employer paid vacation

• Employer paid insurance premiums

• Extended Health & Dental coverage

• Work-life balance

• May be eligible to contribute to MPP

Salary range for the position is $88,990 to $127,923. Interior Health establishes salaries within the minimum and maximum of the salary range based on consideration of the qualifications, experience of the applicant, and an internal equity review of the salaries of other employees.

How will you create an impact:
The Integrated Child and Youth (ICY) Program Leader is a dynamic multi-functional administrator role that champions integration of service across the team and community, plays a critical role in ensuring fidelity to the ICY model of care, and leads team integration and cohesion to enable effective provision of mental health and substance use supports to children, youth and families in the applicable service area.

What will you work on:
1. Leadership/Management of Team

• Providing on-going leadership and managing integration of ICY multi-disciplinary team members including coaching, mentoring, training, and development of all team members regardless of employer.

• Managing and evaluating performance to improve individual and organizational performance, taking corrective action as needed in accordance with health authority policies and procedures; and administering, with support from human resources, the collective agreements of staff in direct reporting relationships.

• Providing practice support to ICY team members.

• Providing expert consultative advice to other health care practitioners and acting as a resource for the assigned clinical operation(s) or service contracts.

• Communicating regularly with employer organizations for on-going collaboration, integration, issues management, and to ensure the mandate of ICY teams is being met.

• Fostering cooperation, collaboration, communication, and harmonious relationships among all team members.

• Providing guidance and direction on the interpretation of Acts, regulations, standards, policy, and procedures.

• Assessing training needs and supporting access to all ICY team members on training opportunities that may be available through partners and in community.

• Delivering ICY onboarding, orientation, and training modules to team members.

• Providing leadership and direction in supervising assigned staff (hiring, firing, disciplining, evaluating), ensuring staff development, education programs and training.

• Representing the Employer in a confidential capacity in matters relating to labour relations or personnel.

• Developing and maintaining fidelity of the ICY model of care.

2. Coordination & Monitoring Service Delivery

• Ensuring that practice principles, including building resiliency, valuing diversity, and innovating are embedded in ICY team practice.

• Ensuring children and youth requesting service receive a timely response from an ICY team member.

• Ensuring that team members bring an explicit diversity, inclusion and equity lens to service design and delivery.

• Facilitating check ins, team meetings and case reviews with all ICY team members.

• Providing oversight to the establishment of the integrated care plan.

• Ensuring a strengths-based, child/family-centered, culturally safe, and trauma informed approach to care is employed by all team members.

• Supporting ICY team members to ensure the child/youth and family's care plan to ensure that it is appropriate to their needs.

• Overseeing efficient operations, equitable workload distribution.

• Developing and maintaining effective program through Continuous Quality Improvement activities.

• Modelling and ensuring that ICY Team staff provide integrated care while demonstrating confidentiality regarding children/youth, their families and treatment programs.

• Overseeing…