Clinical Manager - Children’s Hospital

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 peadiatric health care team.

What the Role is

Reporting to the Director, Children’s Hospital, the Manager organizes, 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.

Children’s Hospital welcomes all leaders, with a diversity of skills and backgrounds to help us continue to build a dynamic and innovative paediatric health system with room for all voices. Here you will be a part of a collaborative, forward thinking leadership team that fosters a spirit of creativity and innovation in an organization that provides opportunities for advancement.

Who You Are

• Self-aware of own assumptions, values, principles, strengths and limitations
• Able to manage and develop self while modeling qualities such as honesty, integrity, resilience, and confidence
• Engage and support others to foster development, personal goals and encourage a healthy organization
• Achieve results by strategically aligning direction, decisions, actions and evaluation with the vision, values and evidence
• Facilitate environment of collaboration and cooperation
• Create connections, build partnerships and networks
• Demonstrate a commitment to the organizational vision, mission, values and service excellence
• Transformational thinker that encourages and supports innovation
• Have exceptional analytical skills that contribute to effective decision-making
• Be 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 while leading in a performance-driven culture
• Lead and drive system transformation
• Develop self and others through teaching, coaching, mentoring and formal development processes
• Strong analytical skills that contribute to effective problem solving and decision-making

What You Will Bring with You

• Successful completion of a recognized baccalaureate degree program in a health care related discipline. Related post-graduate education preferred
• Current Certificate of Registration from a college recognized under the Regulated Health Professions Act an asset
• Minimum five (5) years’ experience in progressively more responsible leadership roles in a healthcare environment, preferably in an acute care academic teaching hospital
• Previous clinical and/or management experience in the Children’s department preferred
• Preference and consideration will be given to active members of the Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL) who have, or are in process of attaining the Canadian Health Executive (CHE) Select certification program
• Demonstrated clinical excellence experience including high quality and safe patient care and exceptional patient/family experiences
• Ability to effectively work with diversity, appreciating that different opinions, backgrounds and characteristics can bring richness to the challenge at hand
• Demonstrated ability to attend work on a regular basis

London Health Sciences Centre fosters a culture of patient and staff safety whereby all employees are guided by LHSC’s Mission, Vision, Values and Code of Conduct.

LHSC is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace, and welcomes applications from women, visible minorities, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, and LGBTQ2+ persons. We are committed to providing persons with disabilities equal opportunities and standards of goods and services, and are also fully compliant with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (2005), as applicable.

Submission Requirements (please submit in one MS Word document):Cover Letter, Resume and Listing of Education, Credentials and Certifications

Please be advised that reference checks may be conducted as part of the selection process.

Successful candidates will be required to complete a health review which includes providing vaccination records or proof of immunity against Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella (Chicken Pox), Hepatitis B, Tetanus/Diphtheria/Polio; Meningitis. In addition, candidates will need to provide documentation of Tuberculosis Skin testing and a completed COVID vaccine series (two vaccines).

Successful candidates, as a condition of job offer, would be required to provide a satisfactory police information check (original document) completed in the last 3 months.

Your interest in this opportunity is appreciated. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.