Physician Lead

**Company Biography**

Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital (OSMH) is located in the City of Orillia - a beautiful community nestled along the shores of Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching. Orillia offers an environment where a health work/life balance is easy to achieve as exceptional urban amenities, natural resources, points of interest, and recreational opportunities abound.

People have always been OSMH’s greatest strength. Our committed team has helped our community for over a century. We offer an environment where each individual works interdependently towards common goals: we value _Trust, Courage and Teamwork_. We are an organization where individuals’ contributions are valued and there are many opportunities for personal growth and development.

**Position Summary**

The Couchiching Ontario Health Team, approved in the first wave of OHTs in Ontario and recently accelerated as one of twelve OHTs at a high level of maturity to move forward with specific initiatives, requires ongoing clinically informed leadership to meet the objectives laid out by Ontario Health in the Path Forward. The COHT Joint Executive Team (JET) on behalf of the OHT members, is seeking a clinical leader to develop and grow the engagement of primary health care providers across all disciplines (Family Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Midwives and others) and Specialist Physicians.

As part of this process, COHT Lead Physician will work effectively with the COHT Primary Care Network, the COHT Lead Primary Care Physician and the COHT Primary Care Leadership Council. The COHT Lead Physician will also work closely with local Communities of Practice and other clinicians. Their role will be to represent the consensus of the whole during the planning and implementation of initiatives that improve integrated care. They will be responsible for providing leadership for mutually agreed upon accountabilities.

The COHT Lead Physician will be supported by the OHT Support Team.

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The COHT Lead Physician has a key role in representing the interests of Specialty Physicians at the PCN-LC level and ensuring that there is dialogue with the community about the work of the PCN-LC.
The COHT Lead Physician has the responsibility of:

- Ensuring members of the Specialist community help inform the PCN with planning, strategy and implementation
- Ensuring input is solicited from members and each member has an equal voice
- Ensuring the broadest bi-directional informing occurs across all types of speciality provider groups in the COHT
- Participates directly in COHT work to clinically inform as needed
- Regularly attending at COHT Primary Care Leadership Council Meetings and Primary Care Network Summit Events
- Ensure fulsome engagement with COHT Patient Family & Advisory Network

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Integrated System Design
- Provide leadership and support to the design and implementation of the Couchiching Ontario Health Team in alignment with the purpose of the COHT
- Follow guidance from the COHT Collaboration Table, actively collaborate with the COHT Primary Care and physician specialist representatives, the Primary Care Transformation Lead for Ontario Health, the Ontario Health Central Clinical Leads, and all COHT Collaboration Table representatives from all sectors/clusters (Patients/Clients/Care Partners, Mental Health & Addictions, Hospital, Community Support Services, Primary Care, Home & Community Care, EMS, Long-Term Care, Indigenous Health, Public Health, City/Municipal partners etc).

Operational Clinical Leadership
- Provide leadership, represent the consensus of health care providers for the full COHT region, and collaborate effectively..
- Collaborate with the COHT in the development and implementation of priority initiatives as identified and approved by OH and operationalized by COHT JET
- Work with members and member organizations to co-develop new clinical population pathways and work to consistently measure and improve existing clinical pathways with a population health approach.
- Support clinical change management and communication initiatives to inform OHT partners and the broader community as clinical population pathways are implemented.

Clinical Leadership Excellence
The COHT Lead Physician shall demonstrate excellence in their servant leadership role and consistently reflect and strive to live out the purpose of the COHT. This shall include but is not limited to:

- Working collaboratively with all members of the care team (patients/clients/care partners, primary care, public health, home and community care, mental health and addictions, community and support services, long-term care, emergency medical services, acute care, and city/municipal partners) to improve population and individual patient health outcomes, patient/client/care partner experiences, provider experiences, and value for per capita cost
- Engage with specialist physicians within the COHT to ensure they are kept informed of COHT initiatives ie. Present at