Reporting to the Manager of Transformation, 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. The role also provides operational oversight of ALC designation processes across the site, ensuring that ALC patients are designated accurately, and within the timelines of Provincial Wait Time 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 HCCSS 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. 1.

Regulated Health

Professional with Undergraduate Degree

- 1-2 years of computer skills (MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and ALC-IS and IDS data bases experience
- Minimum of 5 years experience in discharge planning,



especially for patients with complex issues
- Minimum 1 year presentation skills, adult education experience
- Daily audits of ALC-IS system, including the ability to pull reports from both ALX-IS and IDS
- Ability to generate weekly updates about ALC patients in MC Excel
- Daily assistance to Clinical teams around discharge planning of ALC patients, including connecting with community stakeholders and negotiating or advocating on patient's behalf if they have been declined to a program or service
- Ad hoc reports to be written for manager multiple times per week
- Case synopsis writing for manager multiple times per week
- Excellent communication, time management and organizational skills
- Excellent critical thinking, problem solving, decision making and conflict resolution skills
- Robust leadership, interpersonal, negotiating, consensus-building and teaching skills

📌 ALC Navigator (Canada)
🏢 Hamilton Health Sciences
📍 Canada