The Medical Director Indigenous health is a co-leadership position that shares responsibility for ensuring high quality services. With the respective Co-Leader, the Medical Director works proactively with others (including patients) to ensure continuous quality improvement of service delivery. This position reports to both an Executive Medical Director, Medical & Academic Affairs, and an Executive Director of Indigenous Health.

Main responsibilities of this position:

1. Leadership: Co-leads and oversees activities to ensure program service delivery is efficient, effective and integrated across Island Health sites; Links with appropriate Departmental Medical Leaders to address matters of physician governance, including professional medical practice issues.
2. Operations & Quality: Establishes processes and structures to engage physicians and staff in continuous quality improvement of service delivery; Monitors program budget and performance jointly with co-leader, and makes course corrections when necessary; Ensures appropriate investigation and resolution of program-related Patient Safety Learning System and Patient Care Quality Office events.
3. Change Management: Co-develops and implements change management plans to engage and support physicians and staff through change.
4. Planning: Assesses, monitors and anticipates program resource needs and works with medical leaders and administrative leaders to prioritize these needs within available resources.

Additional contract content

• Work collaboratively in a co-leadership model with assigned Director(s)
• Collaborates with Island Health Community Medical Directors to move health care initiatives forward for First Nation communities
• Partners with FNHA on collaborative initiatives in health care for First Nation communities
• Represents the Indigenous health portfolio at HAMAC.
• Collaborates with Medical and Academic Affairs to collaborate on initiatives pertaining to the Island Health medical staff. Will use Island Health email address for work related to this position
• Will dedicate time to this position during Island Health regular working hours, or as agreed upon with the Executive Medical Director and Executive Director
• Will participate in orientation and training