Provincial Medical Lead, Youth Compassionate Intervention

Job Summary:
 

The Provincial Medical Lead, Youth Compassionate Intervention will provide medical leadership in collaboration with Operational Leads to ensure timely, effective, and evidence-informed addiction and mental health care is available to clients across the province
 

Compassionate Intervention (CI) is a brand-new, province-wide initiative designed to transform how addiction and mental health services are delivered across Alberta. The CI model is rooted in the principles of low-barrier access, continuity of care, and multidisciplinary collaboration, operating 7 days a week. It supports patients transitioning between care providers and offers ongoing psychiatric support for severe substance use disorders.
 

As a founding member of this innovative program, the successful candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping its development, contributing to clinical service design, outcome measurement, and evidence-based research.
 

Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

1. Provide medical leadership and oversight of services provided to youth through Compassionate Intervention at various sites across the province.

2. Develop a framework and implementation plan for involuntary addiction treatment services for youth under the age of 18 and program delivery that supports the goals and measures in alignment with patient and family focused centered care and the Alberta Recovery Oriented System of Care Model.

3. Collaborate with service providers across various communities and/or sites to develop and ensure integrated provincial service planning addresses the dependencies between Provincial Health Agencies, Health Service Delivery Organizations, facilities, programs and local communities.

4. Develop, maintain, and ensure compliance with clinical expectations/standards of practice for physicians.

5. Develop and enact a physician workforce plan for the physicians’ providing services in the program.

6. Work collaboratively to enact physician compensation models that support the recruitment and retainment of physicians.

7. Develop and maintain collaborative relationships to align priorities, address gaps, and coordinate service delivery to ensure delivery of quality, innovative, and efficient health services:

8. 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.

9. Lead or participate in evaluation, quality improvement, and research activities.