Executive Director, Health Services Area

Executive Director, Health Services Area

The salary range for this position is CAD $79.35 - $119.03 / hour.

Job Summary

The Executive Director provides senior leadership to ensure seamless, patient-focused care across community and hospital settings. This role leads a multidisciplinary health services team, driving strategic initiatives that optimize resources, enhance care outcomes, and support the integration of health services across Fraser Health.

In collaboration with regional program leaders, staff, medical staff, clinicians, and other stakeholders, the Executive Director plays a pivotal role in designing and sustaining health services that meet the highest standards of quality and efficiency. This position is accountable for program development and ensuring alignment with the organization's mission, values, and strategic goals, fostering innovation and continuous improvement in quality health care delivery and financial stewardship.

With a focus on building partnerships and improving system-wide care, the Executive Director ensures that Fraser Health remains at the forefront of patient-centered care, promoting collaboration across teams and driving impactful, sustainable health care solutions.

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health:

Reporting to the Vice President Community Hospitals and Health Services, the Executive Director provides senior leadership and direction for the development, implementation, and assessment of strategies, program/service objectives, and operations that support patient-focused seamless care that is integrated across community and hospital settings.

The Executive Director leads an integrated health services team with a focus at a systems level to maximize resources and outcomes within approved financial mandates, ensuring strategies and decisions support high standards of quality, best practices, and achievements of outcomes and performance measures.

Through partnerships, including the Executive Directors Regional Programs, physician leaders, and other leadership roles, the Executive Director holds a key role in the system design, implementation, and sustainability of integrated health services.

1. Participates in the strategic planning, future visioning, goal setting, and decision-making processes for the Health Service Community and its integration with the Community Hospital and other partnerships across Fraser Health.
2. Identifies short, medium, and long-term objectives, plans, programs, and services. Assesses options and makes recommendations for strategic and operational decisions.
3. Represents Fraser Health, the Community Hospital, and the Health Services area with stakeholders, patients/residents/clients, and families. Maintains effective relationships with municipal leaders through regular updates and discussions. Ensures other stakeholders are informed and included in community/stakeholder consultations and discussions.
4. Assists in identifying and removing barriers to a seamless system of care across the community and the hospital and across other programs and services. Works with Executive Directors of Regional Programs on issues of program support and services. Establishes and maintains ongoing working relationships with the Executive Director Regional Hospital on the smooth transition and integration of services and patients/residents/clients.
5. Accountable for the annual operating and capital budget for the Community Hospital and the Health Services area. Works within the approved financial mandate, recommends and establishes program/service priorities. Prepares budget and program recommendations, oversees the performance of programs and budget. Monitors actual expenses and program/service outcomes, identifies efficiencies, and promotes optimal use of resources, making recommendations on current and future program and service adjustments.
6. Identifies and reviews proposals for new or expanded programs following a system and team-based approach; monitors evaluation of existing programs to ensure effective resource allocation and/or the development of new funding sources.
7. Participates in the development and delivery of health services in collaboration with physicians and other health care team members; establishes monitoring and reporting systems to identify and follow up on deficiencies in patient care services and ensures complaints regarding clinical services are appropriately researched, responded to, and appropriate actions put in place.
8. Participates, in collaboration with leadership, in the development and implementation of quality improvement processes; ensures that appropriate quality of care measures are in place and compatible with industry standards and accreditation bodies.
9. Provides leadership to support engagement for physicians, staff, and volunteers. Maintains partnerships with Foundations to ensure common understanding of objectives and program needs and builds on opportunities for support and partnerships.

Education and Experience

Master's degree in a health-related field supplemented with ten (10) to fifteen (15) years of progressively senior management experience including leadership in a large health care organization.

Competencies

Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring, and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities:

• Knowledge of current provincial health care policies.
• Knowledge of funding practices.
• Knowledge of Provincial health statutes.
• Knowledge of current and future health care issues.
• Knowledge of utilization management strategies and programs.

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff, and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the workforce. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring, and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable, and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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