Director of Integrated Health Services

Internal/External Employment Opportunity

Position: Director of Integrated Health Services

Component/Team: Health Services & Oasis

Status: Permanent, 1.0 FTE Full-Time (35 hours per week)

Salary Scale: $105,596 - $127,236 annualized salary plus benefits

Work Location: On-Site at 221 Nelson Street

Vacancy Status: This posting is for an existing vacancy

Start Date: Immediately

Position Description

The Director of Integrated Health Services provides program oversight and strategic leadership for team based primary health care team. The Director drives program and service excellence, fosters partnerships, and guides responsive and integrated services and programs.

The Director works with the Senior Leadership Team to advance the CHC’s vision, mission and priorities by ensuring alignment of programs, resources and operations with community needs, health equity principles, accountabilities and organizational goals.

Skills, Education and Experience

Education and Language

• Master’s degree in health administration or a comparable field
• A clinical background in medicine, nursing or health promotion or a related field
• Under the Centre’s designation to provide French Language Services: - French (oral expression): Advanced - French (oral comprehension): Advanced - French (reading comprehension): Intermediate
• Fluency in English, both oral and written

Professional Experience

• Proven experience as a leader in a team based primary care environment
• Five years’ experience in managerial and progressive leadership roles in a health environment
• Experience in managing and working with primary care and multi-disciplinary teams, including medical and allied health professionals
• Experience managing programs and services for people with complex health and social needs

Key Competencies

• Demonstrated leadership, management and supervisory skills
• Deep understanding of health equity, the social determinants of health, health promotion and community development
• Knowledge of quality improvement and program evaluation methodology
• Strong administrative, organizational and analytical skills
• A collaborative approach to problem solving and change management
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated skills in partnership development and relationship development with parties with vested interests
• A commitment to community based, interdisciplinary, coordinated and integrated services
• Ability to translate vision to action, strategy to operations
• Leadership skills in equity, diversity and inclusion
• Demonstrated ability to manage fiscal resources
• Client engagement and co-design skills
• Understanding of, and commitment to client‑centered and harm reduction frameworks for service provision

Reporting Relationship

The Director of Integrated Health Services is directly accountable to the Chief Executive Officer. The Director is responsible for meeting the licensing and regulatory requirements of their professional governing body, if one exists.

Conditions of Employment

Hours of work will be developed in collaboration with the successful candidate to ensure a healthy work‑life balance. A schedule of work will be based on the Centre’s hours of operation and program requirements and will include some evenings and weekends.

An offer of employment will be conditional upon the candidate completing a criminal reference check, verification of educational requirement for this position and linguistic profile to the satisfaction of the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre.

Accommodation

SHCHC will provide accommodation for applicants with disabilities in its recruitment process.

If at any stage in the selection process you require accommodation due to disability, please let us know the nature of the required accommodation.