Manager, Recreation and Life Enrichment

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Baycrest Full time

Baycrest Hospital has an opportunity for a

**Manager, Recreation and Life Enrichment**

***

**Temporary, Full-time, Days**

**Posting Number**: 8289**:
**Shift Type**: Temporary Full-time (12 months)

**Bi-Weekly Hours**:70 Hours**:
**Union**: Non-Union

**Date Posted**:September 25, 2024**:
**Internal Closing Date**: October 2, 2024

**Job Summary**:
Reporting to the Director of Quality, Systems & Wellness the Manager**, **Recreation and Life Enrichment will work collaboratively with staff, physicians and members of the leadership team to ensure alignment between corporate and program strategic and operational priorities. As an integral member of the Baycrest Hospital management teams, this manager acts as the designated lead for the recreation program under the Fixing Long-Term Care Act and is responsible for recruitment/hiring activities, performance management, overseeing culture, arts, and recreation program planning/implementation/program evaluation and, driving innovation activities.

This manager oversees the recreationists in the long-term care home (Apotex, Jewish Home for the Aged) along with the creative arts workers, music therapists, digital media specialist and arts coordinators.

**Responsibilities include but are not limited to**:

- Manages an interdisciplinary team
- Collaborate with the team to envision, design and oversee recreation and life enrichment programs
- Develop an annual workplan for the department
- Oversee daily operations including assigning staff to lead programs and projects staff for projects, ensuring clinical coverage through staffing appropriately, and providing operational oversight throughout the portfolio
- Reviews key performance indicators and identifies opportunities for continuing quality improvement; leads quality improvement initiatives within the portfolio
- Propose and promote best practices & goals in order to most effectively serve the needs of the Baycrest community
- Identify opportunities for innovative service and/or program enhancement
- Liaises with internal Managers/Directors/Executives as well as external community to expand holistic program enrichment offerings and find new opportunities for intersections, and service enhancements
- Liaises with external business, cultural and art-based agencies and academia to build and maintain partnerships
- Manage budgets
- Works closely with the Foundation to identify funding opportunities including grant and proposal writing, business cases and annual reports on funded activities
- Works with internal and external counsels to develop proposals, MOU documents, service level agreements, procurement documents, research and IP contracts

**Qualifications include but are not limited to**:

- Bachelor Degree in a related field such as, but not limited to Social Sciences, Recreation, Leisure, Gerontology, Kinesiology, or an Arts Discipline with experience integrating Health and Arts
- Minimum 3 years of experience leading large, inter-professional teams
- Previous experience in Health Care, particularly a complex health care facility (Hospital and/or Long-Term Care facility) is an asset.
- Previous proposal / business case writing experience.
- Experience in the research process: obtaining research grants, budgeting and financial management/tracking, Research Ethics submissions, participant engagement & informed consent processes, and presentations.
- An understanding of academia, museums, fine arts, granting agencies, health facilities, therapeutic recreation, and professional arts
- Skills in partnership development and innovative program development
- Strength in balancing multiple projects with varying deadlines simultaneously
- Ability to foster interdepartmental collaborations
- Leadership in team environment, affective team building skills

**Additional Benefits**:

- Vacation Entitlement
- Opportunity to enroll in the extended health and dental benefit plan
- Opportunity to enroll in the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)
- Access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
- 24/7 Gym access for all employees
- Employee Discounts
- Remarkable people of Baycrest Health Sciences
are changing the future of brain health and aging.Thank you for your interest in joining Baycrest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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