Medical Lead – Adolescent Psychiatry

The Medical Lead, Adolescent Psychiatry position is a co-leadership position with operational decision-making responsibilities. With the position’s Co-Leader, the Medical Lead works proactively with others (including patients) to enhance teamwork (including collaboration between physicians and staff) and to facilitate continuous quality improvement services at Victoria General Hospital. This position reports to the Medical Director/Division Head of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Main responsibilities of this position:

• Leadership: Co-leads activities to ensure physicians and staff work as a team to monitor and improve service delivery; Links with appropriate Division Heads and Chiefs of Staff to address matters of physician governance, including professional medical practice issues.
• Operations & Quality: Implements processes and structures to engage physicians and staff in continuous quality improvement of service delivery; Monitors team budget and performance jointly with Co-Leader, and makes course corrections when necessary; Initiates investigations of team-related PSLS and PCQO events.
• Change Management: Acts as change management ‘champion’ to engage and support physicians and staff through change.
• Informatics: Leads team activities that advance technology and data use to improve service delivery in collaboration with the IHealth team and the Quality Systems team.
• Planning: Assesses, monitors and anticipates team resource needs and works with medical leaders and administrative leaders to prioritize these needs within available resources.

This position will also be expected to provide leadership under the following Island Health Leadership domains:

• Leads Self
• Engages Others
• Achieves Results
• Develops Coalitions
• Systems Transformation

Role specific capabilities for these leadership domains is available upon request.

Additional contract content:

• Will work collaboratively in a co-leadership model with assigned administrative lead.
• Chairs or co-chairs relevant team committees.
• Will use Island Health email address as primary email address for work related to this position.
• Will dedicate a minimum of 200 hours per year to this position during Island Health regular working hours, or as agreed upon with the position’s supervisor.
• Will participate in orientation and training.

Start Date:

• Nov 1, 2024

Community Information:

Victoria, British Columbia’s scenic capital, is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. Renowned for its breathtaking natural beauty and enviable quality of life, this is an ideal place to pursue your medical career and create the kind of lifestyle only dreamt about. Few areas in the world can match BC’s scope of outdoor activities, with Vancouver Island offering everything from skiing and snowboarding to golf, and world-class fishing. With Victoria’s temperate climate, its rich heritage and vibrant cultural scene, it provides the very best of urban and rural living.