Mission Leader - Baker City/Ontario

About the role

The Mission Leader provides leadership as part of the local leadership team(s) and/or the Health Service Area (HSA) leadership team, ensuring the successful integration, assessment and on-going development of mission in all of the ministries' activities, decisions and strategies.

Responsibilities

• Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Trinity Health Mission, Vision, and Core Values in behaviors, practices, and decisions.
• Facilitates the integration of the Mission and Core Values in all entities and among all colleagues within the local ministry(ies).
• Implements and makes locally relevant system Mission strategies, policies, and standard practices in accordance with operational plans and priorities identified at the System level.
• Works with a Local Coordinating Council (LCC) to ensure the assessment and improvement of Mission Essential Services across all ministries and the implementation of the Trinity Mission Integration Operational Plan and Priority Objectives within a Local Community of Service (LCS).
• Serves as an active member of the local executive leadership team(s), HSA leadership teams as designated by the MSP, strategic and organizational development teams and other leadership groups as appropriate.
• Develops, participates in, leads and influences daily operational decisions and activities of the ministry by contributing a Mission-focused perspective, experience, encouragement and challenge.
• Attends local ministry Board meetings and provides Mission-focused formation and education for the Board on a regular basis.
• Ensures that standard Mission policies and procedures are implemented locally.
• Ensures that Mission, Vision, and Core Values are integrated into local policies and procedures and collaborates with colleagues in all operational areas: e.g., management development, human resources, finances, planning, advocacy/government relations, communication and marketing, Community Health and Well-Being and so forth to accomplish that.
• Oversees the implementation of all phases of Promoting Catholic Identity (PCI), a program to assess and deepen the organization’s Catholic identity.
• Oversees and provides for local organizational and clinical ethics training and monitoring including the implementation of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs) and the support of local Ethics Committees.
• Serves as an active member of the Trinity Health Mission Council.
• Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and Local laws and regulations, Trinity Health’s Organizational Integrity Program, Standards of Conduct, as well as other policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior.

Qualifications

• Must possess an in-depth knowledge of Catholic theology and ethics particularly as applied to Catholic health care and as normally obtained through a Master's Degree in theology or a related field.
• Must have experience in nurturing the Catholic identity of an organization through understanding and applying Catholic social teachings.
• At least 3 years of clinical practice or ministerial experience in health care preferred.
• Must have proven successful management and/or educational experience in an institutional setting.
• Must demonstrate skill and experience in strategic thinking, program/project management, process improvement and organizational/change management.
• Experience in health care setting preferred.
• Must be comfortable operating in a collaborative, shared leadership environment including the ability to establish and maintain interdisciplinary relationships in a complex matrixed organization.
• Must possess effective communications skills with the ability to relate well to individual persons and to make public presentations.
• Must have demonstrated listening skills.
• Must evidence a working knowledge of the connections among spirituality, meaning and work as well as an appreciation of the process of religious formation and a respect for diversity of religious beliefs and culture.
• Must possess a personal presence characterized by a sense of honesty, integrity, and caring with the ability to inspire and motivate others to promote the mission, vision and values of Trinity Health.