Employment Opportunity - Manager, Richmond Urgent and Primary Care Center, Vancouver Coastal Health, Richmond, BC

Manager, Richmond Urgent and Primary Care Centre, Richmond, BC

We are looking for a Manager with recent experience related clinical and progressive leadership experience, including direct supervisory experience or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Reporting to the Director, the Manager, Urgent and Primary Care Centre (UPCC) is responsible for the planning, implementation, delivery and evaluation of UPCCs initiative across the designated area. The UPCC serves people of all ages with non-life threatening illness or injures who need to be seen within 12-24 hours and are unable to see their Primary Care Provider. UPCCs are designed to complement and add to existing primary care capacity and fill service gaps as part of the broader Primary Care Networks to provide integrated, comprehensive and well-coordinated primary care. UPCC services will be supported by an interdisciplinary primary care team including Physicians, NPs, Nursing and Allied Health Clinicians.

As an active member of the Primary and Community Health Area management team, provides leadership and direction for operations management, planning, implementation and evaluation of urgent and primary care services and activities. Leads an inter-disciplinary team and works as a team player with colleagues and co-workers and in collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders to achieve excellence in client and family centered care, education and research. Employs an awareness and sensitivity to the unique requirements for the various stakeholder interests across the organization. Primary interactions and communications are with other Managers, Directors, Division of Family Practice partners, community physicians and Nurse Practitioners, the Executive Directors of contacted agencies, leads of medical program and transition teams, the Senior Management Team, and community and health authority partners such as municipal government, provincial ministries, schools, police, and emergency services.