Division Medical Director, Narcotic Transition Services, Opioid Dependency Program & Rapid Access Addiction Medicine

Job Summary:
The Division Medical Director, Narcotic Transition Services (NTS), Opioid Dependency Program (ODP) & Rapid Access Addiction Medicine (RAAM) will provide medical leadership in collaboration with Operational Leads to ensure timely, effective, and evidence-informed addiction and mental health care is available to clients across the province. This role provides medical leadership to established and future programs within the Outpatient Addiction Services portfolio, including brick and mortar Opioid Dependency Program, Narcotic Transition Services and Rapid Access Addiction Medicine sites. This role will provide medical oversight in the development of outpatient addiction services and will play a pivotal role in shaping its development, contributing to clinical service design, outcome measurement, and evidence-based research.

As a medical leader, this position provides oversight, management, direction, and advice to programs and services they oversee as well as effectively engaging physicians within Recovery Alberta. There must be a commitment to excellence in providing an integrated, accessible, and accountable health care system. Recovery Alberta is committed to providing services based on population needs and promoting a shared responsibility for improved health. The Division Medical Director will provide medical leadership oversight to ensure successful implementation of the Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction (MHA) priorities and initiatives.

Executive physician leadership is central to driving high-performing, patient-centred health systems. This role blends clinical expertise with strategic oversight, ensuring that medical decisions, operational priorities, and organizational goals are aligned. An effective executive physician leader shapes culture, fosters accountability, advances quality and safety, and supports teams through evidence-informed decision-making. They build strong relationships across clinical, operational, administrative, and community partners, champion innovation, and guide systems through complexity and change. This position, working directly with operational counterparts, requires exceptional communication, sound judgment, and the ability to translate clinical insight into sustainable policy, operational planning, and workforce strategies that improve outcomes and strengthen organizational performance.

Responsibilities / Accountabilities:
Developing and maintaining collaborative relationships, including but not limited to:
•    Working in close partnership with Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence (CoRE), the Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction (MHA) and operational stakeholder lead.
•    Stakeholder engagement, consultation, and/or participation in respect to the location and/or program for the Services including professional colleges and associations, academic institutions, Alberta Health, and others to enable: Understanding of stakeholder priorities, exchange ideas, address gaps, and coordinate actions related to service delivery.
•    Development of strategies to enhance communication and connect key stakeholders; creation of opportunities to hear from stakeholders, incorporate their feedback, and build trust, consensus, and positive relationships with all health disciplines.
•    Providing clinical leadership for the location and/or program of Services. Development, maintenance, and ensuring compliance with clinical expectations for physicians.   Leading the oversight of ODP, NTS and RAAM clinics and activities in conjunction with other physicians and program leaders. Design and implementation of efficiencies, development of best practices and establishment of standards of practice. Providing ongoing direction to physicians to ensure high-quality, innovative and evidence-informed standards of care ensuring defined health outcomes are being achieved in both in-person and virtual care environments.
•    Develop and maintain collaborative relationships to align priorities, address gaps, and coordinate service delivery to ensure delivery of quality, innovative, and efficient health services, work in close partnership with other medical and operational leaders. Engage with a variety of stakeholders external to Recovery Alberta. Provide clinical and operational leadership to ensure high-quality, safe, innovative and evidence informed standards of care that ensure defined health outcomes are being achieved. Lead or participate in evaluation, quality improvement, and research activities.