Manager of Community Health Teams
Permanent Hybrid | Scarborough, ON
Description
Key Areas of Responsibility:
Leadership and Interprofessional Care:
- Understands, interprets, and implements SCHC’s mission, vision, and values.
- Promote person and family centered care in practice with a strong emphasis on an interprofessional team approach.
- Act as a leader in interprofessional team-based care, providing evidence-based, comprehensive health care emphasizing healthy living and illness prevention specific to client population needs.
- In collaboration with the Director provide input into the program outcome evaluation activities.
- Assist the Director in identifying new program development, implementation, and evaluation opportunities.
Team Development and Orientation:
- Develop and implement individualized plans for professional growth and development, including participation in professional organizations and activities, workshops, seminars, and staff development programs.
- Monitors the interprofessional team practices ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and applicable standards of practice.
- Provide supervision, mentorship, orientation, observation, and teaching opportunities to the interprofessional team members.
- Participate in interprofessional meetings, task forces, and projects.
General Responsibilities and Work Plan
- Supports the Director in implementing the work plans for community health teams.
- Assists the Director in meeting the standards for accreditation.
- Develop and maintain professional competence.
- Responsible for staff scheduling and on call schedules.
- Redesigns work flow processes to ensure efficiency and access for clients.
- Perform other duties as assigned that are reasonable within the scope of the job.
Budget and Planning
- Develop, monitor and analyze the budgets within the portfolio, including variance analysis and forecasting.
- Develop, monitor and evaluate the annual plans, including goals and objectives.
- Track and report on the programs’ annual plans and provide appropriate risk identification and mitigation strategies.
Qualifications
Educational and/or Professional Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree is health sciences or related field.
- Master Degree in a health related discipline is preferred.
Level of Experience:
- 3 – 5 years of experience managing in an interprofessional and culturally diverse health care environment.
- Experience supervising staff, students, and volunteers.
- Experiencing in determining appropriate staffing patterns, skill mix, recruitment and human resource planning.
- Community experience an asset.
- Experience/knowledge working in hospice palliative care and health promotion an asset.
Skills and Attributes
- Demonstrated clinical leadership skills.
- Developed critical/strategic thinking skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with a strong orientation to staff and team growth and development.
- Ability to create a collaborative multidisciplinary working environment which fosters high morale and effective staff relationships and participation.
- Demonstrated knowledge and commitment to the principles and practice of health promotion, harm reduction and the social determinants of health.
- In collaboration with the Director, develops the program strategic human resources plan including short and long term needs.
- Directs the investigation and resolution of client complaints.
- Ability to work between multiple sites due to program locations.
- Proficiency in the use of computers, and various software applications, including NOD and CIMS.
- Valid Driver License to drive in Ontario and access to a vehicle required.
Significant Working Conditions
- Flexibility of hours – Evenings and weekend work will be required.
- Traveling as required to support program planning and delivery of services.
