Job Summary:

 
The Medical Lead, Virtual Opioid Dependency Program will provide medical leadership of all services provided through the Virtual Opioid Dependency Program (VODP). This Medical Leader will collaborate with Operational Leads to ensure timely, effective, and evidence-informed virtual care is available to clients across the province
 

The VODP provides comprehensive care to adult and youth clients for all behavioural addiction, opioid use disorder (OUD), and non-opioid substance use disorders to address service gaps and offer quick access alternatives to traditional service models. The program utilizes a multidisciplinary team approach providing a combination of medical and psychosocial treatment options, including:

- Safe and effective medication for non-opioid substance use disorders and behavioral addictions
- Home detoxification services
- Access to addiction support groups and programs
- Short term outpatient counselling
- Collaborative care planning and goal setting
- Referrals to treatment or withdrawal management (detoxification), community support, long-term and/or other specialty services.
 

Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

- Provide medical leadership and oversight of services provided through the VODP Program to support new client access points, including:

1. V-RAAM
2. Same Day Starts (SDS) Services / EMS / Navigation and Support Centres
3. Transitional Treatment Services including support to Primary Care Networks, V-RAAM and VODP
4. Low Barrier Urgent Access (LBUA) Services
5. Law Enforcement (Police/RCMP) and Correctional Health Services 

6. Youth Services.

    

- Develop, maintain, and ensure compliance with clinical expectations/standards of practice for physicians.
- Develop and enact a physician workforce plan for the physicians’ providing services in the program.
- Work collaboratively to enact physician compensation models that support the recruitment and retainment of addiction medicine physicians.
- Develop and maintain collaborative relationships to align priorities, address gaps, and coordinate service delivery to ensure delivery of quality, innovative, and efficient health services:

1. Work in close partnership with other VODP and Addiction medical and operational leaders.
2. Engage with a variety of stakeholders external to Recovery Alberta.

 
- Provide clinical and operational leadership to ensure high-quality, safe, innovative and evidence-informed standards of care that ensure defined health outcomes are being achieved.
- Lead or participate in evaluation, quality improvement, and research activities.