Clinical Quality & Safety Senior Consultant

Reporting to the Director of Quality Management, Improvement & Safety, the Senior Consultant position is a provincial leadership role accountable for developing and operationalizing Primary Care Alberta’s (PCA’s) strategic quality and safety initiatives. The position achieves this by anticipating, reducing and learning from hazards, close calls and patient harm events associated with system-level failures. This role supports and promotes patient safety activities and improvements across PCA programs and services, ensuring alignment with the PCA’s Quality & Safety Plan. The role works with a high degree of independence and in collaboration with the Quality & Safety team and key internal and external partners to plan and implement programs and processes. Responsibilities include the promotion and support for integrating quality improvement and patient safety initiatives into day‑to‑day operations with a goal to embed quality and safety in the culture of PCA. The Senior Consultant will act as a liaison between programs/services/portfolios and the Quality & Safety program. The Senior Consultant is a member of the Quality & Safety Team and has accountabilities to contribute and support the work of that team. While each member of the team may hold specific expertise, together, the compliment of team members represent a broad spectrum of specialized knowledge, encompassing patient safety, clinical expertise, quality management, applied research, and other elements of a fulsome interdisciplinary approach to holistic patient safety across all PCA programs and services. The team will lead, integrate,



and champion system‑wide quality and safety initiatives across PCA. The team’s expertise lies in identifying system‑based approaches to improving safety to mitigate patient harm. The Senior Consultant works within a matrixed workplace across all partner groups.

Description:

Reporting to the Director of Quality Management, Improvement & Safety, the Senior Consultant position is a provincial leadership role accountable for developing and operationalizing Primary Care Alberta’s (PCA’s) strategic quality and safety initiatives. The position achieves this by anticipating, reducing and learning from hazards, close calls and patient harm events associated with system‑level failures. This role supports and promotes patient safety activities and improvements across PCA programs and services, ensuring alignment with the PCA’s Quality & Safety Plan. The role works with a high degree of independence and in collaboration with the Quality & Safety team and key internal and external partners to plan and implement programs and processes. Responsibilities include the promotion and support for integrating quality improvement and patient safety initiatives into day‑to‑day operations with a goal to embed quality and safety in the culture of PCA.



The Senior Consultant will act as a liaison between programs/services/portfolios and the Quality & Safety program. The Senior Consultant is a member of the Quality & Safety Team and has accountabilities to contribute and support the work of that team. While each member of the team may hold specific expertise, together, the compliment of team members represent a broad spectrum of specialized knowledge, encompassing patient safety, clinical expertise, quality management, applied research, and other elements of a fulsome interdisciplinary approach to holistic patient safety across all PCA programs and services. The team will lead, integrate, and champion system‑wide quality and safety initiatives across PCA. The team’s expertise lies in identifying system‑based approaches to improving safety to mitigate patient harm. The Senior Consultant works within a matrixed environment across all partner groups.

- Classification: Senior Consultant
- Union: Exempt
- Unit and Program: Quality Management Improvement & Safety
- Primary Location: Southport
- Location Details: Eligible to work hybrid (on/off site) within Alberta
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 03-NOV-2026
- Date Available: 04-JAN-2027
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Hourly Salary: $38.73
- Maximum Hourly Salary: $66.42
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

- Classification: Senior Consultant
- Union: Exempt
- Unit and Program: Quality Management Improvement & Safety
- Primary Location: Southport
- Location Details: Eligible to work hybrid (on/off site) with

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