Clinical Specialist

Interior Health is looking for an experienced Clinical Specialist to join our team on a full-time term specific basis out of our Kamloops location.

This term position is expected to last until March 31st, 2025.

This position offers a remote work location, ideally within the Interior Health region.

• Employee & Family Assistance Program
• Employer paid training/education opportunities
• Employer paid vacation
• Medical Services Plan
• Employer paid insurance premiums
• Extended health & dental coverage
• Municipal Pension Plan
• Work-life balance

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.

In accordance with the established vision and values of the organization, the Clinical Specialist provides clinical expertise and leadership to the programs and services within the area of responsibility to support the success of the portfolio. The Clinical Specialist is the content expert for clinical best practice and develops and recommends program plans, standards, and guidance documents as aligned with program and health authority priorities.

The Clinical Specialist ensures that all clinical and operational plans, standards, and guidance documents are person-centered, consistent with current evidence and best practice, and support the strategic objectives of the organization and Ministry of Health policy direction. The Clinical Specialist provides clinical guidance to quality improvement and evaluation initiatives by assisting in design, interpreting data, and supporting change management and scale and spread of the outcomes.

• Continuously review the clinical operating environment to identify opportunities and/or gaps, identifying solutions and recommending priorities within existing approved plans, strategies, and organizational priorities. This includes leading clinical best practice and discovering and guiding practices and standards.
• Provides clinical expertise in the development of plans, policies, processes, procedures, strategies, and priorities, ensuring that proposals are robust, operationally feasible and can be expected to deliver a clearly described person-centered benefit and high quality service delivery. This includes the regional guidance and development of clinical decision support tools, clinical operational standards, and creation and execution of clinical educational frameworks for clinical practice standardization within the assigned portfolio.
• Maintains a strong working knowledge of current Ministry of Health policies, procedures, evidence-based best practice and using that knowledge to inform planning and implementing initiatives. This includes working with provincial leaders from other Health Authorities and participating in work with the Ministry of Health.
• Participates in or leads the development of indicators for the assigned portfolio in collaboration with Clinical Operations and as required, other portfolios across IH. Monitors and responds to changing health status needs. Collects, compiles, analyzes, and interprets statistical data to monitor program outcomes, enhance performance and identify emerging issues and trends.
• Liaises with internal and external partners, programs, and portfolios.
• May develop clinical service goals and monitoring frameworks for contracted services and supports managers in reviewing contract performance.
• In alignment with IH’s Occupational Health & Safety Program, employees shall adhere to all Occupational Health and Safety policies and procedures at all times and attend all required training. Employees are responsible to report any identified hazards, unsafe conditions or incidents to the manager or supervisor immediately.
• Provides clinical support and expertise to clinical educators when required.