Vice President Clinical, Rehabilitation & Transitions Job in Toronto Recruiting by Unity Health Toronto

Vice President Clinical, Rehabilitation & Transitions

Unity Health Toronto is one of Canada’s largest Catholic healthcare networks serving patients, residents and clients across the full spectrum of care. With an annual budget of more than $1 billion and 1,100 inpatient beds, Unity Health’s clinical services span primary care, secondary community care, tertiary and quaternary care services to post-acute through rehabilitation, palliative care and long-term care, while investing in world-class research and education. With Providence Healthcare (PHC) in the east, St. Joseph’s Health Centre (SJHC) in the west, and St Michael’s Hospital (SMH) in the heart of downtown, Unity Health spans the breadth of Toronto’s core. We serve almost 1.5 million people across the communities surrounding our three hospitals and beyond.

Unity Health Toronto is continuing its journey, first commenced in 2017, of building a fully integrated health system made up of three leading hospitals spanning the geography of Toronto and the continuum of care. Investing in coming together to become an integrated health system means that Unity Health Toronto is prioritizing leading practices in healthcare and ensuring an exceptional patient experience while also taking a role in advancing the integrated health systems of the future. In 2022 Unity Health Toronto completed it clinical integration strategy by aligning its clinical program leadership and strategy along clinical specialty pathways across the health network. This has contributed to stronger integrated health system planning, better collaboration across our hospitals, increased opportunities for staff development and the sharing and advancement of leading clinical practices to the benefit of the entire Unity Health Toronto health network and our patients. To propel this integrated clinical program model, we have revised our executive structure in a manner that will ensure more robust executive leadership directly engaged with aligned subsets of clinical programs. The role of Vice President, Clinical, Rehabilitation and Transitions is one of three Clinical Programs Vice President roles that Unity Health Toronto is recruiting for in order to advance its vision to provide, The best care experiences. Created together through advancing our clinical program integration and alignment.

Reporting to the Executive Vice President, Clinical Programs, People and Chief Nursing & Health Professions Officer of Unity Health Toronto, the is a member of the network executive team, contributing to the development and execution of the strategic directions of the network, as well as providing oversight of the clinical quality, operational effectiveness, financial stability and general efficiency of clinical programs across Unity Health Toronto. The Vice President has leadership and operational responsibilities for a portfolio of clinical programs with a concentration at the Providence Healthcare site, which includes a 245 bed rehabilitation, complex care and palliative care hospital with inpatient and ambulatory programs as well as a 288 bed long term care home and an active community support service for cognitively impaired adults. Within the VP portfolio are both the Rehabilitation & Palliative Care Program and the Seniors Health & Ambulatory Care Program as well as Pharmacy services across all our sites. This VP also provides leadership representation at the East Toronto Health Partners and in the Scarborough Ontario Health Team (OHT)

The Vice President plays a key role in supporting and advancing Unity Health Toronto’s unique values-based culture by demonstrating principled leadership, embedding patient centred care and ensuring that service delivery within the clinical programs are aligned with the network’s mission, vision, values, and strategy. This role requires an authentic leader with superior relationship management skills to collaborate with stakeholders across Unity Health Toronto and in the broader health system, and to develop strong, high-performing teams. The Vice President will provide outstanding leadership in achieving our goal – ensuring the best possible patient experience across the network and working with the community partners to better integrate services.

An optimistic and enthusiastic leader, the successful candidate will possess thorough understanding of, and appreciation for, the complexities and stakeholder dynamics of long term care, rehabilitation, community services and academic health centres, which integrate patient care with teaching and research. The successful candidate will have progressive experience in leadership of clinical programs in a complex health care environment, a post-graduate degree in nursing or other healthcare discipline, health policy or business/health/public administration and demonstrated success with co-design, coaching and mentoring methodologies.

Key Job Responsibilities

The role of Vice President Clinical, Rehabilitation & Transitions requires an experienced health care leader who will be committed to and guided by Unity Health Toronto’s mission and values. The ideal candidate also has exceptional interpersonal and operational skills, and extensive experience inspiring teams, driving change, innovation and excellence in clinical, operational, and professional practice environments.

Strategy and Planning

Clinical Program Leadership

Qualifications:

Leadership Skills

Personal Attributes

Compensation

A competitive compensation package will be provided

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