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Senior Clinical Planner, Stroke Clinic


Company : Vancouver Coastal Health


Location : Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional Distr


Created : 2026-05-02


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Salary Details The salary range for this position is CAD $55.27/Hr. - CAD $79.45/Hr. Job Summary Come work as a Senior Clinical Planner with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)! Vancouver Coastal Health is looking for a Senior Clinical Planner to join the Stroke Clinic team at Vancouver General Hospital. This role establishes single-point accountability for a multi-year redesign and strategic plan, ensuring Neuroscience growth is intentional, evidence-informed, and aligned with VCH priorities for reimagined care, innovation, and system sustainability. Neuroscience is one of the most powerful opportunities to transform lives, and one of the most compelling stories we can tell donors. Today, we have extraordinary clinical and academic strengths, but we lack a single, integrated Neuroscience vision that donors can rally behind. This role is essential to creating that vision. It will bring together clinicians, researchers, educators, and operational leaders to define a clear, inspiring Neuroscience future; one that articulates how philanthropy accelerates innovation, improves patient journeys, and advances discoveries from bench to bedside. The role will work with key stakeholders identifying signature initiatives, and a coherent narrative that positions VCH Neuroscience as a national and global leader. Provides dedicated leadership to develop a unified Neuroscience vision, strategic plan, and future operating model across clinical care, research, teaching, innovation, and philanthropy. Leads crossfunctional engagement and consensusbuilding across medical, operational, academic, and Foundation partners. In partnership with the Vancouver General Hospital and UBC Hospital Foundation, the VCH Neuroscience Program is developing a major redesign, vision and strategic plan specific to Neuroscience that will include innovation, teaching, research, and clinical care. This work is core to a multiyear endeavor and requires strong leadership, engagement, change management, strategy and writing skills. This role will be responsible for leading multiple teams working directly with medical and operations leaders and multiple stakeholders to gain consensus leading to a neuroscience vision that will inform a major campaign to establish VCH Neuroscience as a national and world leader, creating the pathway for a future of Neuroscience excellence, improved patient care. Apply today to join our team! Responsibilities - Provide clinical planning services for key strategic initiatives by leading and preparing all aspects of clinical planning for project proposals, planning, briefing notes development or program initiatives for the designated clinical area. - Partner with the clinical leadership, medical staff, and project planning team to ensure integration of associated clinical services; alignment with current, emerging and best practice requirements is considered in the program design requirements and implementation and that appropriate frameworks and processes for evaluation are in place. - Lead a clinical planning team in support of the programs projects and initiatives and successful implementation. Qualifications Education & Experience - Masters degree in Health Care Administration or related health science discipline, supplemented by seven (7) to nine (9) years recent, related clinical planning experience in a large complex multisite healthcare organization, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience. Knowledge & Abilities - Demonstrated ability to work effectively independently and in collaboration/consultation with others. - Comprehensive knowledge of health care delivery systems. - Demonstrated knowledge of project management principles and methodologies. - Strong analytical, critical thinking and evaluation skills. - Demonstrated ability to supervise and provide direction to others. - Demonstrated ability to prepare and present complex information to individuals and/or groups. - Demonstrated ability to organize and prioritize work in a dynamic environment with changing priorities. - Physical ability to perform the duties of the position. Closing Statement As per Ministry of Health policy, all health care workers working in publicly-funded health care facilities are required to report their past receipt of certain vaccines or history of certain infections. Collecting these records will allow for offering of any missing vaccines, and for appropriate actions to be taken in the event of any future exposure to a communicable disease or during outbreaks. For all new hires and appointments to Vancouver Coastal Health, you will be asked to provide this information as part of the onboarding process. We encourage applications from equitydeserving communities, including Indigenous Peoples and members of racialized groups, people with disabilities and people of all gender identities and expressions and sexual orientation. #J-18808-Ljbffr