Manager, Cancer Screening and Person-centred Care

**Who We Are**:
London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is a world-class academic health sciences centre located in the southwestern Ontario city of London. Just two hours from Toronto and two hours from Detroit, London features a beautiful and walkable downtown core located on the Thames River, a vibrant culinary scene and scores of activities that highlight local arts, culture and music. As one of Canada's largest acute-care teaching hospitals, LHSC delivers world-class care and experiences, built on our commitment to excellence in research, innovation, and learning. In partnership with our communities, we design and advance healthcare to support the wellness of the populations we serve. LHSC delivers both local and regional services, including the Children's Hospital, within a large geographic area. LHSC is known for its great people and great care, with a workforce of close to 15,000, dedicated to delivering the highest quality patient care while partnering with communities to transform health, one life at a time.
- The South West Regional Cancer Program (SWRCP) oversees the quality and delivery of cancer services for the counties of Grey, Bruce, Huron, Perth, Middlesex, Oxford, Elgin and part of Norfolk. The SWRCP works to ensure that patients receive the same quality of care, regardless of where they live.

Regional Cancer Programs were created and are funded by Cancer Care Ontario. There are 13 Regional Cancer Programs across Ontario. They consist of networks of hospitals and other agencies who are involved in providing cancer prevention, screening, diagnostic, treatment and support services. They respond to local cancer issues, coordinate care across local and regional healthcare providers and work to continually improve access to care, wait times and the quality of cancer programs and services.

For each Regional Cancer Program, there is a Regional Cancer Centre. The Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre operates as the Regional Cancer Centre for the South West Regional Cancer Program. Cancer care in the South West region of Ontario is delivered through a network of service providers.

**Posting Period**:
June 10 - 23, 2025

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

Reporting to the Director, Regional Cancer Services, Inpatient Oncology, CMH and Stem Cell, the Manager, Cancer Screening and Person-Centred Care - SWRCP is accountable for system-wide improvements to the prevention, and detection of cancer requiring the involvement of many organizations with each one playing a vital role. The Manager will ensure that cancer services delivered throughout the South West region are of high quality, and continue to meet the needs of those that we serve. This accountability includes the direct responsibility for the regional cancer screening coordination and operations within the South West Regional Cancer Program. In particular, the Ontario Breast Screening Program, the Ontario Cervical Screening Program, the Ontario Lung Screening Program and ColonCancerCheck and all system-level quality and performance management activities related to their implementation and operation in the South West are within the scope of this role.

The Manager is also responsible and accountable for developing, implementing, and evaluating strategies to optimize the cancer patient experience across the full continuum of care. The Manager will represent the SWRCP while participating in the development and implementation of Ontario Health, Cancer Care Ontario's annual provincial and regional work plans, involving psychosocial oncology, patient education, symptom management, and patient experience and engagement, including initiatives for underserved populations. The Manager directs, controls and evaluates the delivery of all aspects of person-centred care within cancer care services. They are responsible for translating the program leadership's decisions into execution by utilizing relationship management and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to achieve the necessary outcomes. The Manager ensures all operations are aligned and working together to successfully achieve strategic objectives.

Working collaboratively with Regional Clinical Leads in each of the organized screening programs, and maintaining collegial and influential relationships with primary care providers in the South West, the Manager ensures Provincial, Regional and Local performance targets are communicated, monitored, and continuously improved.

**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