Description

Your Opportunity:

Reporting to the Director of Quality Management, Improvement & Safety, the Senior Consultant position is a provincial leadership role accountable for developing and operationalizing Primary Care Alberta's (PCA's) strategic quality and safety initiatives. The position achieves this by anticipating, reducing and learning from hazards, close calls and patient harm events associated with system-level failures. This role supports and promotes patient safety activities and improvements across PCA programs and services, ensuring alignment with the PCA's Quality & Safety Plan. The role works with a high degree of independence and in collaboration with the Quality & Safety team and key internal and external partners to plan and implement programs and processes. Responsibilities include the promotion and support for integrating quality improvement and patient safety initiatives into day-to-day operations with a goal to embed quality and safety in the culture of PCA. The Senior Consultant will act as a liaison between programs/services/portfolios and the Quality & Safety program.

Description:

The Senior Consultant is a member of the Quality & Safety Team and has accountabilities to contribute and support the work of that team. While each member of the team may hold specific expertise, together, the compliment of team members represent a broad spectrum of specialized knowledge, encompassing patient safety, clinical expertise, quality management, applied research, and other elements of a fulsome interdisciplinary approach to holistic patient safety across all PCA programs and services. The team will lead, integrate, and champion system-wide quality and safety initiatives across PCA. The team's expertise lies in identifying system-based approaches to improving safety to mitigate patient harm. The Senior Consultant works within a matrixed environment across all partner groups.

Qualifications

• Classification: Senior Consultant
• Union: Exempt
• Unit and Program: Quality and Safety, Primary Care Alberta
• Primary Location: Southport
• Location Details: Eligible to work hybrid (on/off site) within Alberta
• Negotiable Location: Provincial
• Employee Class: Regular Full Time
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 16-JUL-2026
• Date Available: 27-JUL-2026
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 10
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
• Minimum Hourly Salary: $38.73
• Maximum Hourly Salary: $66.42
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:

Expertise in health discipline with current licensure. Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with progressive responsibility in Patient Safety and/or Quality Assurance.

Additional Required Qualifications:

In-depth knowledge of the theory and application of patient safety principles, reviews, processes, and tools. In-depth knowledge and proven practical experience of Quality Improvement and Process Improvement principles. Demonstrated leadership experience, preferably in a health care or related environment. Must be adaptable to working within a virtual team and at times in person, including a matrixed environment requiring strong collaboration. Ability to thrive in an agile environment with ambiguous topics including politically sensitive contexts. Ability to develop and facilitate presentations to convey information and support transfer knowledge. Education or demonstrated abilities in change management, quality improvement practices and methodologies. Team leadership skills, including demonstrated ability and comfort with decision making responsibilities, coaching, and the ability to inspire and build confidence in others. Ability to search for, appraise, and apply best evidence. Proven ability to work collaboratively as a contributing team member while meeting tight deadlines. Proven ability to work independently within a large, complex organization with a variety of staffing groups. Demonstrated skills in needs identification, gap analysis, critical thinking, decision-making, and innovative problem solving. Demonstrated abilities in conflict resolution and management and well-developed facilitation skills. Must demonstrate the ability to learn various IT platforms.

Preferred Qualifications:

Masters degree in health administration, nursing, medicine, allied health, or public health. Preference will be given to those with five (5) years patient safety or investigation experience in a Safety or Risk Manager role. Demonstrated pattern of professional and personal development. Experience in strategic or operational planning in a healthcare organization. Excellent computer skills including expert knowledge of MS Office.