Vice President, Clinical Programs

Reporting to the Executive Vice President, Clinical Programs, People and Chief Nursing & Health Professions Officer of Unity Health Toronto, the Vice President Clinical, Rehabilitation and Transitions 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.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:
Strategy & Planning
- As a member of Unity Health Toronto’s executive leadership team, contributes to the development and execution of Unity Health Toronto’s overall strategic and operating plans
- Leads the development and execution of plans for the growth, management, and performance of specific assigned clinical programs in collaboration with relevant site leads
- Champions and contributes to the network’s patient and resident care quality and patient safety agenda, in collaboration with other medical and operational leaders
- Advances external partnerships to enhance Unity Health Toronto’s impact, performance and reputation as a key partner in system-wide service planning and delivery, with a focus on our local communities

Clinical Program Leadership
- Provides executive and operational leadership of the services for the programs of Pharmacy, Seniors Health and Ambulatory Care, Rehabilitation, Complex Continuing Care and Palliative Care and the Houses of Providence Long-term Care Home.
- In partnership with the Chief and Director of Medical Affairs at PHC drives excellence in clinical care across their programs
- Ensures that network plans, priorities and initiatives are supported, implemented and sustained within the programs for which he/she is accountable
- Is accountable for the leadership, performance and operations of identified clinical programs at Unity Health Toronto
- Contributes to an environment that fosters clinical excellence, quality improvement and person-centred care
- Promotes a culture of innovation, change and accountability within the management team of the programs for which he/she is accountable
- Contributes to the identification and realization of site specific and network-wide improvement opportunities
- Ensures the continuous development of direct reports and programmatic management teams for which she/he is accountable through leadership, education, coaching and performance management
- Works with the members of the Executive Committee to establish priorities for resource allocation, including recommendations for investments in capital equipment, renovations and future site development
- Contributes to identification of site-specific risks, and works with relevant leaders to develop mitigation plans, and to ensure that these are effectively executed
- Collaborates with clinical and administrative leaders to foster engagement and wellness of staff, physicians, researchers, learners, volunteers, and other hospital stakeholders, in alignment with Unity Health Toronto’s mission, and values
- Chairs leadership committees as appropriate, and ensures alignment and effective collaboration of clinical and administrative leaders

**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- A post-graduate degree in nursing or other healthcare discipline, health policy or business/health/public administration
- Progressive experience in leadership of hospital clinical programs, long term care, rehabilitation and complex care

Core Skills and Abilit