Lead, Performance and Accountability

At Ontario Health, we are committed to developing a strong organizational culture that connects and inspires all team members across the province. Our vision is that together, we will be a leader in health and wellness for all. Our mission is to connect the health system to drive improved and equitable health outcomes, experiences and value. How we work together is reflected through our five values: integrity, inspiration, tenacity, humility and care.

What Ontario Health offers:
Achieving your career goals is a priority to us. Benefits of working at Ontario Health may include the following based on employment type:

- Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage from your first day
- Health care spending account
- Premium defined benefit pension plan
- 3 personal days and 2 float days annually
- Individual contributors start at 3 weeks’ vacation with 4 weeks at 2 yrs.
- Career development opportunities
- A collaborative values-based team culture
- Wellness programs
- A hybrid working model
- Participation in

Communities of Inclusion

Want to make a difference in your career? Consider this opportunity.

Working as system partners, the Health System Performance and Accountability Portfolio enables the Ontario healthcare system to provide high-quality, equitable care, through:
- Development, implementation and operations of funding policy and innovative funding models, with the goal of leveraging funding to align with overall program goals and drive value and performance in the system,.- Development, issuance and management of Agreements that align system goals and funding in order to drive strong system accountability.- Standardization and implementation of best practice for performance management across the province
- including a coordinated approach to target setting, monitoring, and escalation to support quality improvement and accountability.- Coordination of engagement between Regional teams and the OH provincial office (including Regional Cancer Programs), thereby facilitating effective, streamlined collaboration for system improvement.

The Performance and Accountability department within the Health System Performance and Accountability Portfolio is responsible for ensuring that every patient in Ontario has access to high quality care, by working with partners to lead and coordinate Ontario Health’s accountability and performance processes. Additionally, the Performance and Accountability Department acts as a liaison to regional partners across identified service areas. This includes acting as a key point of contact with OH regions on topics of performance and accountability, Regional Cancer programs etc.

The department is responsible for the development, issuance, and ongoing management of Ontario Health funding agreements with hospitals and other healthcare facilities across Ontario. The team is also responsible for providing support regarding non-funding agreements (e.g. data sharing agreements, software service and license agreements, etc.), as appropriate. The team works closely with clinical program teams across the organization as well as with partners from Finance, Legal, Privacy, Analytics, Informatics, and regional/facility partners to lead a robust contract management system to deploy more than $3.5B in funding to health care organizations across the province. Through collaboration and partnerships with many internal and external stakeholders, the team also supports the implementation and operational activities of innovative funding models aligned with evidence-based practice enabling system sustainability.

Here is what you will be doing:
- Concurrently lead the ongoing management of several large, complex hospital/facility funding agreements, including planning and implementing initial allocations, in-year reallocations, year-end settlements, etc.- Lead ongoing funding operations related to health service funding models.- Work in close collaboration with other organizational partners to ensure contracts are developed and issued in a timely manner, and without error and to support operational/project needs.- Proactively identify and escalate risks and issues to timely contract issuance and provide thorough and practical recommendations to management to mitigate risks and resolve issues. Ensure interdependencies are recognized and addressed in a streamlined fashion.- Understand, interpret and clearly communicate complex data analysis and results related to treatment/service volumes, funding, performance against program expectations and reporting requirements, etc. to all levels of stakeholders.- Consulting with OH programs on strategies to address performance challenges with facilities and regional stakeholders.- Flagging performance concerns through regular monitoring of performance data and supporting OH programs to escalate issues appropriately.- Develop and deliver analysis, reports, business cases, methodology documents, communications, presentations, briefing notes and researc