Health Compliance Consultant

Role Responsibilities

Join our Licensing Compliance and Monitoring Branch as a Health Compliance Consultant, where you'll use your extensive experience to develop standardized operational policies and procedures and monitors operators’ compliance in continuing care legislation; this includes analysis and implementation of risk-based strategies to prevent and mitigate safety and care adverse events.

Key Responsibilities:

• Draft, review briefing notes for information and/or decision making.
• Developing operational policy in alignment with legislation and best practices in licensing and compliance monitoring.
• Developing risk-based assessments, compliance monitoring surveillance, and inspection/audit tools and processes to support risk-based auditing approaches and gather high-quality data.
• Developing and maintaining a training matrix and curriculum to ensure the branch staff have the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to perform their job effectively and satisfactorily. This will also include preserving and organizing seminal literature and concepts developed by leading theorists and practitioners in care facility licensing.
• Identify areas of improvement, strategies to enhance consistency in regulatory monitoring or for training/mentoring purposes.
• Designing, planning, leading, and evaluating projects (related to licensing compliance and monitoring in Continuing Care) and coordinating cross-government initiatives.
• Conducting research and data analysis, including clinical/outcomes data to inform the branch operational decisions or provide policy feedback to the Continuing Care Division and promote understanding of the licensing fundamentals and the role compliance monitoring and regulatory excellence plays in protecting residents, Albertans in the community and providers.
• Liaising with the Continuing Care Branch, Legal to provide legislative or policy interpretation to operators or inspectors.
• Draft, review briefing notes for information and/or decision making.
• Engage and implement activities related to stakeholder engagements.
• Develop and support strategic initiatives and projects at the broad system level that address health and compliance trends.
• Provide innovative policy implementation solutions and methodologies to address complex health compliance issues.
• Undertake quality assurance and training responsibilities to maintain program integrity and prepare staff for the rigor’s responsibilities of regulatory licensing and compliance monitoring.
• Identify areas of system optimization and operational projects to enhance the effectiveness of the branch inspections.

Role Responsibilities Cont.

What you Bring:

• Excellent conceptual, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent in written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent project management skills and understanding of a project life cycle.
• Demonstrate experience in stakeholder engagement.
• Excellent understanding of project management methodologies and tools.

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APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

• System Thinking: Ability to understand how different parts of the health system interact and influence each other, ensuring decisions consider broader organizational and regulatory impacts.
• Creative Problem Solving: Skill in analyzing complex compliance issues and developing innovative, practical solutions that align with health standards and organizational goals.
• Drive for Results: Commitment to achieving high-quality outcomes within deadlines, maintaining accuracy and compliance while meeting organizational objectives.
• Agility: Capacity to adapt quickly to changing regulations, priorities, and environments, while maintaining effectiveness and professionalism.
• Develop Networks: Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, fostering collaboration and information sharing to support compliance initiatives.

Qualifications

Education, Experience and Registration:
University degree related to the position assignment (Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy) and four (4) years of related experience. Current registration in good standing with an Alberta professional college is required.

Preference will be given to candidates who have the following experience:

• Strong research and statistical analysis background.
• Background working in Continuing Care.
• Demonstrate strong verbal and writing skills (APA Style guide, etc.)

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. 

Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

Hours of work are 8:15 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday to Friday. 

If a security screening is required:

• Final candidates will be required to undergo a security screening.
• Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses, will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

A cover letter outlining how your experience relates to the qualifications of this role is required.

In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. Also, please indicate whether your work experience is casual, part-time, or full-time. For example, January 15, 2006 - June 25, 2009: Assistant (PT three 8 hrs. shifts/week).

Links and information on what the GoA have to offer to prospective employees.

• Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages- working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.ca.
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits.    
• Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive.
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool - https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca.
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.
• Leadership and mentorship programs.