Senior Consultant - Continuing Care Programs
About the role
Your Opportunity:
An exciting opportunity awaits you! If you are an experienced Health Care leader, coach, and mentor for other healthcare professionals in the interesting, challenging, and ever-evolving field of seniors’ care! Alberta Health Services (AHS) needs someone like you to provide direction, team leadership, and organization. Although this full-time role does not have any direct reports, you would support, mentor, and collaborate with several colleagues and professionals within the senior’s health portfolio. The Senior Consultant of Continuing Care programs for Central Zone NE, collaborates with Area Leaders, Central Zone programs along with direct care providers to ensure that clients receive quality care in a safe competent and ethical manner. This role is pivotal to ensure implementation of all continuing care programs are implemented in a consistent manner with clear sight for program sustainability while ensuring all facilities have implemented clinical best practice guidelines and standards of care with an emphasis to align rural settings. This position will require working with a matrix of Continuing Care Directors who have programmatic responsibilities to ensure consistency and continuing of implementation of programs within the Central zone facility based Continuing Care, Home Care, Designated Supportive Living, PEOLC and ADSP. This position will support multiple rural sites such as Lloydminster, Vermilion, Mannville, Viking, Galahad, Two Hills, Hardisty, Lamont, Vegreville and Wainwright. Please note this role has flexibly on primary location and travel to the variety of sites would be a requirement.
Description:
The Senior Consultant of Continuing Care collaborates with Area Leaders, Central Zone programs and direct care providers to ensure that clients receive quality care in a safe, competent, and ethical manner. This position will liaison with central zone departments, site and medical staff, external organizations, and communities in order to coordinate and integrate client programs and services within the Long-Term Care Program, Home Care Program, Supportive Living Program, Adult Day Support Program, Palliative End of Life Program, and the Home parenteral Program. The Continuing Care Program Manager provides leadership to several Continuing Care programs in keeping with the policies and procedures outlined by Central Zone, Alberta Health Services and Alberta Health. This position is Directly accountable to the Director of Continuing Care, Northeast Central Zone.
- Classification: Consultant
- Union: Exempt
- Unit and Program: Seniors Health - Continuing Care
- Primary Location: Vermilion Prov. Bldg
- Location Details: Eligible to work hybrid (on/off site) within Alberta
- Negotiable Location: Within Central Zone
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 14-AUG-2025
- Date Available: 25-AUG-2025
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $37.82
- Maximum Salary: $64.86
- Vehicle Requirement: Driver's License, Vehicle Required
Required Qualifications:
Post-secondary degree / diploma in a health profession, health administration, leadership, or other comparable degree / diploma. A demonstrated clear pattern of professional development (e.g., continuing education courses). Minimum 5 years' experience with Continuing Care.
Additional Required Qualifications:
As required.
Preferred Qualifications:
Clear history of Continuing Care experience including Home Care / Supportive Living / Long Term Care. Previous experience with Managing a unionized workforce.
Please note:
All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.
Security Screening:
A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.
About Alberta Health Services
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is Canada’s first and largest province wide, fully-integrated health system, responsible for delivering health services to the over four million people living in Alberta.
Our skilled and dedicated professionals, support staff and physicians come from numerous disciplines, from all walks of life, and from all corners of the world.
Our mission is to provide a patient-focused, quality health system that is accessible and sustainable for all Albertans.
Our five values – compassion, accountability, respect, excellence and safety – are at the heart of everything that we do.
Senior Consultant - Continuing Care Programs
About the role
Your Opportunity:
An exciting opportunity awaits you! If you are an experienced Health Care leader, coach, and mentor for other healthcare professionals in the interesting, challenging, and ever-evolving field of seniors’ care! Alberta Health Services (AHS) needs someone like you to provide direction, team leadership, and organization. Although this full-time role does not have any direct reports, you would support, mentor, and collaborate with several colleagues and professionals within the senior’s health portfolio. The Senior Consultant of Continuing Care programs for Central Zone NE, collaborates with Area Leaders, Central Zone programs along with direct care providers to ensure that clients receive quality care in a safe competent and ethical manner. This role is pivotal to ensure implementation of all continuing care programs are implemented in a consistent manner with clear sight for program sustainability while ensuring all facilities have implemented clinical best practice guidelines and standards of care with an emphasis to align rural settings. This position will require working with a matrix of Continuing Care Directors who have programmatic responsibilities to ensure consistency and continuing of implementation of programs within the Central zone facility based Continuing Care, Home Care, Designated Supportive Living, PEOLC and ADSP. This position will support multiple rural sites such as Lloydminster, Vermilion, Mannville, Viking, Galahad, Two Hills, Hardisty, Lamont, Vegreville and Wainwright. Please note this role has flexibly on primary location and travel to the variety of sites would be a requirement.
Description:
The Senior Consultant of Continuing Care collaborates with Area Leaders, Central Zone programs and direct care providers to ensure that clients receive quality care in a safe, competent, and ethical manner. This position will liaison with central zone departments, site and medical staff, external organizations, and communities in order to coordinate and integrate client programs and services within the Long-Term Care Program, Home Care Program, Supportive Living Program, Adult Day Support Program, Palliative End of Life Program, and the Home parenteral Program. The Continuing Care Program Manager provides leadership to several Continuing Care programs in keeping with the policies and procedures outlined by Central Zone, Alberta Health Services and Alberta Health. This position is Directly accountable to the Director of Continuing Care, Northeast Central Zone.
- Classification: Consultant
- Union: Exempt
- Unit and Program: Seniors Health - Continuing Care
- Primary Location: Vermilion Prov. Bldg
- Location Details: Eligible to work hybrid (on/off site) within Alberta
- Negotiable Location: Within Central Zone
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 14-AUG-2025
- Date Available: 25-AUG-2025
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $37.82
- Maximum Salary: $64.86
- Vehicle Requirement: Driver's License, Vehicle Required
Required Qualifications:
Post-secondary degree / diploma in a health profession, health administration, leadership, or other comparable degree / diploma. A demonstrated clear pattern of professional development (e.g., continuing education courses). Minimum 5 years' experience with Continuing Care.
Additional Required Qualifications:
As required.
Preferred Qualifications:
Clear history of Continuing Care experience including Home Care / Supportive Living / Long Term Care. Previous experience with Managing a unionized workforce.
Please note:
All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.
Security Screening:
A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.
About Alberta Health Services
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is Canada’s first and largest province wide, fully-integrated health system, responsible for delivering health services to the over four million people living in Alberta.
Our skilled and dedicated professionals, support staff and physicians come from numerous disciplines, from all walks of life, and from all corners of the world.
Our mission is to provide a patient-focused, quality health system that is accessible and sustainable for all Albertans.
Our five values – compassion, accountability, respect, excellence and safety – are at the heart of everything that we do.