Manager, Inpatient Paediatrics

**Who We Are**:
As one of Canada's largest acute-care teaching hospitals, Children's Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre is a world-class hospital with the latest technology and the best practices, scientists and health professionals in Canada. For 100 years, Children's Hospital has been an integral part of the London community offering compassionate medical care for a population of greater than 2.5 million people, with more than 400,000 children, as well as those across the Southwestern Ontario region, and the world. Children's Hospital is a major centre for medical research and through collaborative partnerships with Western University and various educational institutions, health care professionals actively seek out training opportunities, acknowledging the chance to work alongside some of Canada's top medical scholars. With more than 15,000 staff, physicians, and residents, committed to '_Working together to shape the future of health,' _this is your opportunity to work alongside a dedicated patient-centric paediatric health care team.

Located on the sixth floor of the B-tower, Inpatient Paediatrics consists of two wings, B6-100 & B6-200. B6 cares for children birth through age 17 and serves a large catchement area in Southwestern Ontario. With over 20 specialty services within this wide age span, staff on B6 draw from a unique body of nursing knowledge. This role is accountable for oversight of the B6-200 unit.

The Comfort Promise is a commitment to ensuring that every patient receives comfort and pain management during their medical care, specifically skin breaking procedures (i.e., Intravenous catheter insertion). It aims to minimize pain and anxiety associated with medical procedures through effective and compassionate strategies. This includes comfort positioning, distraction, the use of topical numbing cream, and sucrose/breastmilk if the child is less than 1 year old.

At the Children's Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre, the Comfort Promise includes:

- Evidence-based comfort and pain management techniques: Utilizing individualized comfort plans, distraction techniques, topical medication, positioning, sucrose and other tools to minimize pain and anxiety for all children visiting LHSC.
- Family involvement: Engaging families in the process to ensure a supportive environment while their child is receiving treatment.
- Comfort Promise bundles offered: Every patient. Every time.

**Posting Period**:
August 12 - 25, 2025

**Job Summary**:
**What the Role is**

Reporting to the Director, Children's & Women's - Acute and Oncology Inpatient and Outpatient Services & Nursing Resource Team, the Manager, Inpatient Paediatrics and Comfort Promise directs, controls and evaluates the delivery of department services. They are responsible for translating decisions of the program leadership into execution, by utilizing relationship management and working with internal and external stakeholders to achieve the necessary outcomes. The Manager ensures their team and department operations are aligned with our mission, vision and values, while working together to successfully achieve our strategic objectives.

This role is accountable for day-to-day department activities, including the management of human and material resources, day-to-day staffing and scheduling, development and support of a healthy workplace, risk and utilization measurements, and facilitation of improvement initiatives and change management, while operating within approved operational budgets and financial guidelines and controls. A major focus of the role is fostering effective working relationships and networks within the team/unit and with other teams across the organization.

**Qualifications**:
**Who You Are**
- You are self-aware of own assumptions, values, principles, strengths and limitations
- You manage and develop self while modeling qualities such as honesty, integrity, resilience, and confidence
- You engage and support others to foster development, personal goals and encourage a healthy organization
- You achieve results by strategically aligning direction, decisions, actions and evaluation with the vision, values and evidence
- You facilitate an environment of collaboration and cooperation
- You create connections, build partnerships and networks
- You demonstrate a commitment to the organizational vision, mission, values and service excellence
- You are a transformational thinker that encourages and supports innovation
- You have exceptional analytical skills that contribute to effective decision-making
- You are self-directed, courageous, and highly motivated with excellent interpersonal and effective communication skills

**What Skills Are Needed**
- Planning and executing action plans that deliver results and motivate individuals for greater performance excellence
- Strong business acumen
- Values-based leadership and a proven track record for developing and sustaining healthy work environments and effective teams