HSPBA: P2A Special Procedures/Techniques

Posted
December 6, 2024

Now that the new profile-based classification system is fully implemented at all HSPBA worksites across BC, your union can move forward with the P2A process.
 
The “P2A process” is shorthand for the provisions in the new profile-based classification system that allow us to advocate to add new types of work to the P2A Special Procedures profile, recognizing and compensating the specialized work of many HSA members who have jobs that are currently matched with the P1 profile.
 
As of today, your union has received and confirmed enough information to move forward with P2A claims for ten professions. Members of these professions have also received this information by email. This is not a complete list of all P2A claims that your union will make; rather, this is our first submission using this new collective agreement right.

Here is the list of professions, along with the special procedures/techniques that we have claimed should be rightly added to P2A:

Profession Special Procedures/Techniques
Audiologist
  • Auditory Brainstem Response
  • Cochlear Implant Management
  • Vestibular Assessment and Management
Diagnostic Medical Sonographer
  • Pediatric Echocardiography
Dietitian
  • Parenteral Nutrition
  • Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) Nutrition Therapy
  • Insertion of Nasogastric or Nasojejunal Feeding Tubes
  • Indirect Calorimetry
  • Renal Nutrition/Kidney Care
  • Insulin Dose Adjustment (IDA)
  • Certified Diabetes Education
Nuclear Medicine Technologist
  • Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging
  • Computed Tomography (CT)
  • Radiation Safety Officer
Occupational Therapist
  • Hand Therapy
  • Low Vision Rehabilitation
  • Driver Rehabilitation
Pharmacist
  • Clinical Pharmacy
  • Oncology Clinical Pharmacy
Physiotherapist
  • Hand Therapy
Radiological Technologist
  • Screening Mammography
Respiratory Therapist
  • Patient/Client Respiratory Education
Speech-Language Pathologist
  • Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Voice and Swallowing (FEEVS) – Adults
  • Tracheo-esophageal Voice Prostheses Assessment and Management
  • Communication and Swallowing Management for Tracheostomy – Adults
  • Videofluroscopic Assessment of Swallowing Disorders – Adults
  • Videofluroscopic Assessment of Swallowing Disorders – Paediatrics
  • Management of Airway Secretions (Oropharyngeal Suctioning)
  • Management of Airway Secretions (Oropharyngeal and Tracheal Suctioning)

The P2A Process
 
This is the beginning of the P2A process, so the outcome is not guaranteed, but your union's classifications staff believe that the items listed above meet the definition of a special procedure/technique.
 
If these claims are successful, all members of the listed professions who are classified as P1 and whose work includes one of the special procedures/techniques listed above will be entitled to retro pay from December 6, 2024. They are not required to make any submission to HSA about their work.
 
Your union plans to update both members of these professions and stewards by email as the process unfolds, but it is unlikely that we will have any further updates this month.

I work in a different area that I think should also be P2A
 
If you’ve already emailed us about your work, and it is not on this list, it means that we are still in the process of confirming that we have sufficient evidence to move forward. If classifications staff need specific information, they will contact you. Please don’t resubmit, as staff are tracking and evaluating a large number of P2A submissions.
 
If you have not made a submission yet, don’t worry – this is not a one-time opportunity. You have the ongoing right under the collective agreement to suggest new P2A special procedures/techniques.

Topic
Health Science Professionals
Type
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