Supervisor, Biomedical Technology

Position Profile:
**Humber River Hospital. Lighting New Ways In Healthcare.**

Since opening our doors in 2015 as North America’s first fully digital hospital and we remain unwavering in our belief that we can change the hospital where we work, the community where we live, and the world of healthcare beyond our borders. Serving a community of 850,000 residents in North West Toronto, Equity Inclusivity and active participation in the North West Toronto Ontario Health Team are key initiatives important to our Team. At Humber River Hospital, we use a custom combination of technology and clinical expertise to rebuild elements of care. We make technology work for staff and physicians; giving them more time to spend with patients, to eliminate inefficiencies, and to reduce the chance of errors. Humber River Hospital is formally affiliated with both the University of Toronto and Queen’s University and committed to becoming a community academic hospital. Clinical Excellence, Optimizing Care through Technology and Community Connection frame our Research Strategy.

At Humber River Hospital, we’re not hoping for a renaissance, we are making it happen. As part of our dynamic team, you can lead the way, as we continue our journey towards high reliability care

**Join our Biomedical Engineering Department as we work together to**
**deliver compassionate care that is responsive to the healthcare needs of our community.**

We are hiring a **Supervisor, Biomedical Technology **to support our Biomedical Engineering Department

**Reporting Relationship**: Manager, Biomedical Technology

**Employee Group**:Non Union

**Location**: Cross Site coverage is required

**Hours of work (Subject to change)**:Monday - Friday (8 am - 4 pm) with occasional weekends

**Responsibilities**
- Supervise day-to-day operations of the Biomedical Engineering and Dialysis Department including supervising the departmental staff across all sites
- Provide feedback to the Director/Manager on staff performance for annual staff appraisals
- Assist with the coordination of staff with matters related but not limited to: recruitment, scheduling, performance management and training
- Supervise equipment repair, installation and maintenance as required
- Oversee transactions with the medical equipment repair program
- Supervise and perform duties related to new equipment evaluatiuon, training, installation and service plan development
- Assist the Director/Manager in long term planning for service provision and to coordinate agreed upon service provision changes and improvements
- Oversee the medical equipment service contracts which includes updating the service contracts, inventory and database

**Requirements**:

- Undergraduate Degree in Electronic/Biomedical Engineering
- Minimum 3 years of Biomedical Engineering experience
- Membership with the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society

**Other Skills/Abilities**:

- Demonstrated strong written communication, verbal communication and inter-personal skills required
- Strong stakeholder engagement and customer service skills
- Computer skills including knowledge of and applied experience using Healthcare systems
- Highly developed critical thinking, practical problem solving, and organizational skills
- Ability to complete Human Resources functions such as interviewing, performance assessments, investigations and disciplinary meetings

**Why Humber? Why Now?**

Humber River Hospital is on an exciting transformation journey of redefining patient care, as we leverage the most advanced technologies to enhance all aspects of delivering high-quality, safe care. We continue to build a people-centered workplace with excellent staff and physician engagement by hiring passionate, diverse and inclusive healthcare professionals. People who care and encompass our values of Compassion, Professionalism and Respect. People who are committed to making a positive difference.

We are a
**Huron Consulting** hospital, focused on building our evidence-based leadership practice and hardwiring a culture that WOWs.

Humber River Hospital is a member of the
**Toronto Academic Health Science Network** (TAHSN), which is a dynamic network of academic health organizations providing leading edge research, teaching and clinical care.

We have collaborated with TAHSN member institutions in addressing the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our membership in TAHSN supports our strategic pillar of advancing Humber River Hospital as a community academic hospital.

Humber River Hospital was the recipient of the
**2021 Excellence in Patient Safety Award** by the Canadian College of Health Leaders. This award recognizes teams that are committed to improving patient safety within a healthcare environment, through leadership, innovation, culture, and best practises.

Why? Because at Humber River Hospital, we know it is our people and our ability to innovate that allows us to consistently deliver a great patient experienc