Manager, Occupational Health

Are you ready to lead transformative programs that directly impact the health and safety of over 9,000 employees, learners, physicians, scientists, and volunteers? In this role, your expertise will support employees across a diverse health care environment, including acute care, rehabilitation, and cutting-edge research. As a results-oriented and visionary health care leader, you will oversee innovative and comprehensive health policies and programs to foster a workplace where employees thrive. You will be instrumental in guiding a multi-disciplinary team of Occupational Health professionals to ensure the delivery of programs and services that prioritize employee health and wellness, productivity, and resilience. Be a part of shaping a workplace where your leadership cultivates and safeguards the health of the people who care for our community.

**Is this you?**
Are you a manager who leads by example, upholding the principles of service, humanity, inclusivity, and discovery? Your ability to guide an Occupational Health team through complex health and safety challenges ensures key initiatives—such as disability management, immunization, and pre-employment health screenings—are executed effectively, driving consistent outcomes across a multi-site healthcare environment. You set clear expectations, monitor progress, and maintain high performance standards while empowering your team to achieve measurable results.

You are a skilled communicator, able to engage with individuals at all levels of the organization while maintaining professionalism and diplomacy. Whether you're collaborating with clinical staff or external partners, your confidence and interpersonal skills enable you to navigate complex situations and promote alignment. You thrive in high-pressure situations, using your conflict resolution abilities to turn challenges into positive outcomes, all while fostering a customer service-focused approach to program development.

Are you a strategic problem solver with a focus on process improvement and risk management? With your expertise in quality improvement, you've successfully streamlined systems to reduce risks and enhance safety outcomes. You are also adept at facilitating learning and driving change, helping multidisciplinary teams embrace new practices with confidence and clarity.

**About the Occupational Health Team**

The Occupational Health Team at Sinai Health is integral to fostering a safe and healthy workforce. Consisting of 15 experienced professionals, including Abilities Coordinators and Health Surveillance Nurses, we facilitate disability management, return-to-work strategies, workplace accommodation planning, and attendance support programs. Our approach is centered on early intervention and cooperative engagement among employees, managers, health care practitioners, and union partners to drive effective case resolutions while preserving confidentiality and respect.

We also provide a range of essential clinical services, including pre-employment health assessments, immunizations, first aid, and medical surveillance related to occupational exposures. As a resource for both occupational and non-occupational health concerns, our team contributes significantly to employee well-being and organizational resilience. Each year, we support the onboarding of over 1,000 new employees, reinforcing Sinai Health's commitment to growth, safety, and a healthy work environment. Our approach prioritizes creating a workplace culture that is equitable, compassionate, and accountable.

**In this role you will**:

- Provide leadership, mentoring, and direction for the Occupational Health team to ensure that roles and responsibilities adapt to program requirements while overseeing staff recruitment, performance evaluations, and staff development
- Conduct training, education and awareness on issues relating to occupational health across the System
- Monitor corporate absenteeism program and develop strategies for improved outcomes
- Develop, implement, and maintain effective Occupational Health policies, processes, programs, and metrics within a strategic Human Resources framework
- Support the Sinai Health leadership group with occupational health matters and provide informed, strategic and timely advice, support, and counsel
- Research, seek input, design and implement System-wide occupational health strategies targeted at legislative compliance, stakeholder needs, best practices and measurable outcomes
- Act as the Sinai Health contact and liaison on occupational health matters with the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB), Ministry of Labour, Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Health, etc., and ensure appropriate handling, notification, tracking and follow-up across campuses and divisions
- Lead Sinai Health's occupational health initiatives, including risk identification, assessment, and mitigation, claims management and employee work accommodations ensuring compliance with OHSA, Ontario Hum