The Provincial Medical Director, Palliative Care, Hospice and End-of-Life Care provides strategic and clinical leadership to advance a coordinated, accessible, high-quality, and sustainable palliative care system across Assisted Living Alberta (ALA). This role oversees the integration and delivery of palliative, hospice, and end-of-life care services across community, supportive living, home care, rural, virtual, and outreach settings
 

Key Responsibilities
•    Provide provincial medical leadership for palliative care, hospice, and end-of-life services across Alberta.
•    Lead physician workforce planning, recruitment, retention, and succession planning.
•    Develop provincial standards, care pathways, quality indicators, and performance measures.
•    Promote equitable access to palliative care services throughout Alberta.
•    Support education, research, innovation, and continuous quality improvement initiatives.
•    Work collaboratively with the operational dyad for palliative care, hospice and end of life
•    Collaborate with provincial, community, and healthcare partners.
•    Contribute to strategic, operational, and business planning.

 
Other accountabilities:
•    Implement and sustain a provincial program model that ensures safe, consistent, compassionate, and high-quality care.
•    Maintain a corridor-based leadership structure that balances provincial standards with local operational needs.
•    Partner with operational leaders to integrate palliative care across programs and ensure effective care coordination.
•    Ensure alignment with organizational priorities, provincial mandates, quality standards, and person- and family-centred care principles.
•    Monitor outcomes, incidents, and performance indicators to drive continuous improvement.
•    Support quality assurance, accreditation readiness, audit responses, and implementation of best practices.

 
Reports to the Chief Medical Officer, Assisted Living Alberta

 
Term starts date: September 1, 2026
 
 

Qualifications

•    MD or equivalent medical degree.
•    CFPC or RCPSC certification.
•    Advanced training or certification in Palliative Care.
•    Licensed or eligible for licensure with CPSA.
•    Demonstrated healthcare leadership experience.
•    Eligible for Medical Staff Appointment in Alberta.