ALC Navigator

Hamilton Health Sciences

  • Hamilton, ON
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 day ago
The ALC Navigator‘s primary focus is to expedite discharges for patients designated ALC, and to hold teams accountable for continual progression of patient’s discharge plans. This role also provides operational oversight of ALC designation processes across the site, ensuring that ALC patients are designated accurately, and within the timelines of the Provincial Wait Times Strategy reporting requirement. The ALC Navigator addresses issues that are delaying discharge. The ALC Navigator provides a site-wide lens of ALC patients; being aware of site-based bed pressures, the navigator will collaborate with HNHB LHIN to prioritize assessments that will result in a discharge, and works with internal and external stakeholders to resolve issues that are delaying discharges, both at a patient-specific and at a systems level.Qualifications1. Regulated Health Professional with Undergraduate Degree
2. 1-2 years of computer skills (MS Word, Excel, and Power Point), EPIC and ALC-IS data base experience
3. Minimum of 5 years experience in discharge planning, especially for patients with complex issues
4. Minimum of 1 year presentation skills, adult education experience
5. Daily audits of ALC-IS and EPIC systems, including the ability to pull reports from both.
6. Ability to generate weekly updates about all ALC patients in MS Excel
7. Excellent communication, time management and organizational skills
8. Excellent critical thinking, problem solving, decision making and conflict resolution skills
9. Strong leadership, interpersonal, negotiating, consensus-building and teaching skills

Hamilton Health Sciences