Coordinator, Nursing Practice Excellence and Innovation

Who We Are

London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is a world-class academic health sciences centre located in the southwestern Ontario city of London. Just two hours from Toronto and two hours from Detroit, London features a beautiful and walkable downtown core located on the Thames River, a vibrant culinary scene and scores of activities that highlight local arts, culture and music. As one of Canada?s largest acute-care teaching hospitals, LHSC delivers world-class care and experiences, built on our commitment to excellence in research, innovation, and learning. In partnership with our communities, we design and advance healthcare to support the wellness of the populations we serve. LHSC delivers both local and regional services, including the Children?s Hospital, within a large geographic area. LHSC is known for its great people and great care, with a workforce of close to 15,000, dedicated to delivering the highest quality patient care while partnering with communities to transform health, one life at a time.   

Nursing Practice Excellence and Innovation (NPEI) provides evidence-informed direction to lead and implement strategic nursing priorities across the organization, achieve nursing practice excellence, strengthen systematic organization-wide competency-based nursing education and skill-building, understand and address organization-wide nursing issues, and support the advancement of innovation in nursing practice at LHSC.  

Posting Period

November 5 - November 18

Job Summary

What the Role is

Reporting to the Manager, Nursing Practice Excellence and Innovation, the Coordinator, Nursing Practice Excellence and Innovation, will foster effective working relationships and internal networks to strengthen nursing and promote effective interprofessional practice. They will identify strategies to support the recruitment and retention of nurses. In supporting nursing excellence and innovation, the Coordinator is expected to collaborate and partner with various teams and committees focused on patient safety and quality of care, occupational health and safety, health ethics, workplace health, information technology, and health equity and inclusion, as well as with regional partners.  

The primary focus of the role will be to provide front line leadership and support for the clinical extern program, nursing focus. The leader will work collaboratively with stakeholders and partners to lead recruitment, onboard, support clinical extern growth and development, monitor and evaluate the program, integrated program enhancements, and support transitions from externs to new novice nurses. Additionally, the leader will provide leadership for transitions, both for novice nurses and experienced nurses shifting career pathways.   

The leader will adhere to standards of ethics, performance, competence, and training that must be met by nurses at LHSC. The leader will encourage continuous development of self and others, and strives for accountability and responsibility for insightful practice. The leader will support innovation and quality work environments for novice, mid-career and late-career nurses.  

They are responsible for translating decisions of the program leadership into execution, by utilizing relationship management and working with internal and external partners to achieve the necessary outcomes. The Coordinator ensures their team and department operations are aligned with our mission, vision and values, while working together to successfully achieve our strategic objectives. 

Qualifications

Who You Are

• You are self-aware of own assumptions, values, principles, strengths and limitations
• You manage and develop self while modeling qualities such as honesty, integrity, resilience, and confidence
• You engage and support others to foster development, personal goals and encourage a healthy organization
• You achieve results by strategically aligning direction, decisions, actions and evaluation with the vision, values and evidence
• You facilitate an environment of collaboration and cooperation
• You create connections, build partnerships and networks
• You demonstrate a commitment to the organizational vision, mission, values and service excellence
• You are a transformational thinker that encourages and supports innovation
• You have exceptional analytical skills that contribute to effective decision-making
• You are self-directed, courageous, and highly motivated with excellent interpersonal and effective communication skills

What Skills Are Needed

• Planning and executing action plans that deliver results and motivate individuals for greater performance excellence
• Strong business acumen
• Values-based leadership and a proven track record for developing and sustaining healthy work environments and effective teams while leading in a performance-driven culture
• Lead and drive system  transformation
• Develop self and others through teaching, coaching, mentoring and formal development processes
• Strong analytical skills that contribute to effective problem solving and decision-making

What You Will Bring with You

• Successful completion of a recognized baccalaureate degree program in a related field
• Related post-graduate degree
• Minimum three (3) years' experience in healthcare field preferred
• Ability to effectively work with diversity, appreciating that different opinions, backgrounds, and characteristics can bring richness to the challenge at hand
• Fluent and computer literate with computer systems such as email and Microsoft Office applications (MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Demonstrated ability to attend work on a regular basis

Other Information

London Health Sciences Centre fosters a culture of patient and staff safety whereby all employees are guided by LHSC's Mission, Vision, Values and Code of Conduct.

LHSC is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace, and welcomes applications from women, visible minorities, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, and members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. We are committed to providing persons with disabilities equal opportunities and standards of goods and services, and are also fully compliant with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (2005), as applicable.

Submission Requirements (please submit in one MS Word, or PDF(preferred), document): Cover Letter, Resume and Listing of Education, Credentials and Certifications

Please be advised that reference checks may be conducted as part of the selection process.

Successful candidates will be required to complete a health review which includes providing vaccination records or proof of immunity against Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella (Chicken Pox), Hepatitis B, Tetanus/Diphtheria/Polio; Meningitis. In addition, candidates will need to provide documentation of Tuberculosis Skin testing and a completed COVID vaccine series (two vaccines).

Successful candidates, as a condition of job offer, would be required to provide a satisfactory police information check (original document) completed in the last 3 months.

Your interest in this opportunity is appreciated. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.