Promeus
Chief Communications Officer
North York General Hospital (NYGH) is a community academic hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto and accredited with exemplary status by Accreditation Canada. It is one of Canada’s leading community hospitals, recently ranked by Newsweek in the Top 5 hospitals in Canada and Top 100 hospitals in the World. Proudly serving 500,000+ residents in North Central Toronto, and offering a broad continuum of integrated primary, secondary, and selected tertiary services, NYGH operates 600+ acute and long-term care beds and ambulatory programs across multiple sites. Through partnerships, collaboration, and academic endeavours, NYGH seeks to set new standards for innovative, integrated patient-and family-centred care. NYGH is committed to building on their academic mission through exceptional education, research, and innovation. The Hospital continues to advance excellence in integrated patient care while ensuring fiscal accountability and efficiency.
For more information about NYGH, please visit their website at: https://www.nygh.on.ca/ .
The Position
In this key leadership role, the Chief Communications Officer will help profile NYGH as one of Canada's leading academic community hospital systems. The successful candidate for this vital position will be responsible for the development and implementation of a comprehensive integrated communications strategy for both internal and external audiences. With an opportunity to strengthen NYGH’s external communication presence, this role will encompass media relations, digital communications, social media, government relations, stakeholder, philanthropic, and community engagement.
Reporting to the President and CEO, the Chief Communications Officer will be responsible for ensuring all communications activities are developed, implemented, and measured to effectively support NYGH’s mandate and reflect the organization’s new Strategic Plan 2020-2025, brand positioning and narrative. The Chief Communications Officer will partner and collaborate across the organization and health system to support a stakeholder-driven approach that ensures that both internal and external organizational partners are actively engaged and supported in a wide range of NYGH’s communications initiatives.
Key leadership initiatives for the new Chief Communications Officer will be to:
Ensure the effective implementation of a comprehensive integrated communications strategy that drives active awareness and engagement, internally and externally.
Lead, mentor, and support the organization in the creation and execution of projects to inform, engage, and enhance the organizational profile.
Adapt and strengthen communications processes and activities to meet changing priorities, emerging issues, and trends impacting Ontario’s health care landscape across the continuum of care such as collaboration with North York Toronto Health Partners and Ontario Health Team.
Support the vision around NYGH’s Master Plan as it relates to the narrative around imagining the future of health care delivery.
Proactively seek opportunities to strategically profile NYGH.
Experience
The successful candidate will have at least 7-10 years of progressive leadership experience in communications roles. This is a strategic and proactive leadership role that requires someone that excels at team development, multi-faceted communications execution, effective implementation across various mediums (e.g., media, digital, social, etc.), stakeholder engagement, and who is skilled at working on multiple complex projects with a variety of programs and partners. The successful candidate will ideally have experience in a leadership role in the Ontario health system or broader public sector and have a proven track record of delivery, with an ability to define and achieve a vision through to execution.
To confidentially explore this opportunity, please email your resume or query, quoting the appropriate position title, to Judy Mandelman, at resumes@promeus.ca .
This position supports the hospital’s academic mandate by advancing care through teaching and learning and/or transforming care through research and innovation. This position contributes to the shared responsibility of ensuring health and safety policies are followed to provide for a healthy environment for patients, staff, physicians, volunteers and families.
Chief Communications Officer
North York General Hospital (NYGH) is a community academic hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto and accredited with exemplary status by Accreditation Canada. It is one of Canada’s leading community hospitals, recently ranked by Newsweek in the Top 5 hospitals in Canada and Top 100 hospitals in the World. Proudly serving 500,000+ residents in North Central Toronto, and offering a broad continuum of integrated primary, secondary, and selected tertiary services, NYGH operates 600+ acute and long-term care beds and ambulatory programs across multiple sites. Through partnerships, collaboration, and academic endeavours, NYGH seeks to set new standards for innovative, integrated patient-and family-centred care. NYGH is committed to building on their academic mission through exceptional education, research, and innovation. The Hospital continues to advance excellence in integrated patient care while ensuring fiscal accountability and efficiency.
For more information about NYGH, please visit their website at: https://www.nygh.on.ca/ .
The Position
In this key leadership role, the Chief Communications Officer will help profile NYGH as one of Canada's leading academic community hospital systems. The successful candidate for this vital position will be responsible for the development and implementation of a comprehensive integrated communications strategy for both internal and external audiences. With an opportunity to strengthen NYGH’s external communication presence, this role will encompass media relations, digital communications, social media, government relations, stakeholder, philanthropic, and community engagement.
Reporting to the President and CEO, the Chief Communications Officer will be responsible for ensuring all communications activities are developed, implemented, and measured to effectively support NYGH’s mandate and reflect the organization’s new Strategic Plan 2020-2025, brand positioning and narrative. The Chief Communications Officer will partner and collaborate across the organization and health system to support a stakeholder-driven approach that ensures that both internal and external organizational partners are actively engaged and supported in a wide range of NYGH’s communications initiatives.
Key leadership initiatives for the new Chief Communications Officer will be to:
Ensure the effective implementation of a comprehensive integrated communications strategy that drives active awareness and engagement, internally and externally.
Lead, mentor, and support the organization in the creation and execution of projects to inform, engage, and enhance the organizational profile.
Adapt and strengthen communications processes and activities to meet changing priorities, emerging issues, and trends impacting Ontario’s health care landscape across the continuum of care such as collaboration with North York Toronto Health Partners and Ontario Health Team.
Support the vision around NYGH’s Master Plan as it relates to the narrative around imagining the future of health care delivery.
Proactively seek opportunities to strategically profile NYGH.
Experience
The successful candidate will have at least 7-10 years of progressive leadership experience in communications roles. This is a strategic and proactive leadership role that requires someone that excels at team development, multi-faceted communications execution, effective implementation across various mediums (e.g., media, digital, social, etc.), stakeholder engagement, and who is skilled at working on multiple complex projects with a variety of programs and partners. The successful candidate will ideally have experience in a leadership role in the Ontario health system or broader public sector and have a proven track record of delivery, with an ability to define and achieve a vision through to execution.
To confidentially explore this opportunity, please email your resume or query, quoting the appropriate position title, to Judy Mandelman, at resumes@promeus.ca .
This position supports the hospital’s academic mandate by advancing care through teaching and learning and/or transforming care through research and innovation. This position contributes to the shared responsibility of ensuring health and safety policies are followed to provide for a healthy environment for patients, staff, physicians, volunteers and families.
Promeus
Chief of Staff/Vice President, Medical Affairs
Cambridge Memorial Hospital (CMH) is a full service, acute care hospital committed to providing health care to the communities of Cambridge, North Dumfries and the region of Waterloo. CMH traces its roots to 1888, when the region’s first community hospital opened to treat patients. The Hospital’s modern/current mission is to be a progressive acute care hospital and teaching facility committed to quality and integrated patient-centred care. The Hospital employs 1,178 staff, 287 medical staff and midwives and has more than 500 volunteers.
CMH’s $187M Capital Redevelopment Project involved the construction of a new patient care wing. The 240,000-square-foot Wing A was opened January 18, 2020 and houses units such as the Emergency Department, Intensive Care, Birthing, Paediatrics, Medicine, and the Mental Health program. The state-of-the-art operating rooms will be put into service later this spring. The complete refurbishment of the existing Wing B patient care facility is the next phase of the project. The Hospital is one of 32 health care and health services agencies in Cambridge and North Dumfries that applied to become an Ontario Health Team and submitted a full proposal in the fall of 2019 that led to a successful outcome. Additionally, CMH recently completed their Accreditation and were Accredited with Exemplary Standing until 2023.
The Position
Cambridge Memorial Hospital is seeking an exceptional, visionary and innovative leader for the combined roles of Chief of Staff and Vice President, Medical Affairs (COS/VPMA). The COS/VMPA is appointed by, reports to, and is accountable to the Board of Directors for the professional supervisory duties, and to the CEO for administrative duties.
The COS/VPMA will actively support CMH’s pursuit of clinical excellence, maximizing quality, advancing best practices and transforming the patient and family experience. The COS/VPMA will play a key role in ensuring that the Hospital’s vision of Exceptional Healthcare by Exceptional People is at the forefront. As a champion of quality improvement, this leader will work closely with other members of the Hospital’s senior team and members of the clinical staff to achieve sustained improvements in program outcomes while advancing partnerships that promote a seamless and integrated patient journey.
Key leadership initiatives for the COS/VPMA will be to:
Ensure CMH’s continued commitment and focus on the quality and safety of exceptional medical care, in accordance with the Public Hospitals Act, by-laws and policies established by the Board of Directors.
Develop, inspire and lead clinical and quality initiatives that transform the patient experience with an unwavering focus on excellence, quality improvement and best practices.
Continue to support and empower a physician engagement and participation strategy that reinforces diversity, inclusivity, accountability and patient-centeredness.
Collaborate with the Senior Leadership Team and members of the professional staff on program/clinical service planning strategies designed to optimize the patient experience such as the health information system implementation, the establishment of an Ontario Health Team and the $20M+ post-construction operating plan growth.
Provide inspiration, direction and support for Medical Leadership and professional staff in a range of activities related to quality, clinical service planning, academic endeavors, physician recruitment and retention.
Partner and build relationships with internal and external providers, clinicians, teams, stakeholders and leaders to ensure optimal team performance and the provision of the highest quality and safest care to patients and families.
Experience
You are a physician licensed by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario or eligible for licensure. You are an experienced, inclusive and visionary leader with credentials and experience in both medical leadership and clinical practice. You are firm, fair, and highly regarded in your field of medical practice and have a breadth of medical leadership experience in formal leadership roles. Equally comfortable in the clinical, academic and administrative environments, you understand the needs of physicians in hospitals, and can support them in change management and opportunities for integrated care. You possess superb interpersonal, communication (oral and written), negotiation and change management skills and have a history of providing leadership to, and team building with, professional and clinical staff. Recognized as an effective change leader and successful in building relationships, you have demonstrated your commitment to quality improvement and broader systems-level change. You provide strategic leadership in an evolving, patient-centred healthcare organization, partnering with multi-level internal and external stakeholders.
To confidentially explore this opportunity, please email your resume or query, quoting the appropriate position title, to Judy Mandelman, at resumes@promeus.ca .
Chief of Staff/Vice President, Medical Affairs
Cambridge Memorial Hospital (CMH) is a full service, acute care hospital committed to providing health care to the communities of Cambridge, North Dumfries and the region of Waterloo. CMH traces its roots to 1888, when the region’s first community hospital opened to treat patients. The Hospital’s modern/current mission is to be a progressive acute care hospital and teaching facility committed to quality and integrated patient-centred care. The Hospital employs 1,178 staff, 287 medical staff and midwives and has more than 500 volunteers.
CMH’s $187M Capital Redevelopment Project involved the construction of a new patient care wing. The 240,000-square-foot Wing A was opened January 18, 2020 and houses units such as the Emergency Department, Intensive Care, Birthing, Paediatrics, Medicine, and the Mental Health program. The state-of-the-art operating rooms will be put into service later this spring. The complete refurbishment of the existing Wing B patient care facility is the next phase of the project. The Hospital is one of 32 health care and health services agencies in Cambridge and North Dumfries that applied to become an Ontario Health Team and submitted a full proposal in the fall of 2019 that led to a successful outcome. Additionally, CMH recently completed their Accreditation and were Accredited with Exemplary Standing until 2023.
The Position
Cambridge Memorial Hospital is seeking an exceptional, visionary and innovative leader for the combined roles of Chief of Staff and Vice President, Medical Affairs (COS/VPMA). The COS/VMPA is appointed by, reports to, and is accountable to the Board of Directors for the professional supervisory duties, and to the CEO for administrative duties.
The COS/VPMA will actively support CMH’s pursuit of clinical excellence, maximizing quality, advancing best practices and transforming the patient and family experience. The COS/VPMA will play a key role in ensuring that the Hospital’s vision of Exceptional Healthcare by Exceptional People is at the forefront. As a champion of quality improvement, this leader will work closely with other members of the Hospital’s senior team and members of the clinical staff to achieve sustained improvements in program outcomes while advancing partnerships that promote a seamless and integrated patient journey.
Key leadership initiatives for the COS/VPMA will be to:
Ensure CMH’s continued commitment and focus on the quality and safety of exceptional medical care, in accordance with the Public Hospitals Act, by-laws and policies established by the Board of Directors.
Develop, inspire and lead clinical and quality initiatives that transform the patient experience with an unwavering focus on excellence, quality improvement and best practices.
Continue to support and empower a physician engagement and participation strategy that reinforces diversity, inclusivity, accountability and patient-centeredness.
Collaborate with the Senior Leadership Team and members of the professional staff on program/clinical service planning strategies designed to optimize the patient experience such as the health information system implementation, the establishment of an Ontario Health Team and the $20M+ post-construction operating plan growth.
Provide inspiration, direction and support for Medical Leadership and professional staff in a range of activities related to quality, clinical service planning, academic endeavors, physician recruitment and retention.
Partner and build relationships with internal and external providers, clinicians, teams, stakeholders and leaders to ensure optimal team performance and the provision of the highest quality and safest care to patients and families.
Experience
You are a physician licensed by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario or eligible for licensure. You are an experienced, inclusive and visionary leader with credentials and experience in both medical leadership and clinical practice. You are firm, fair, and highly regarded in your field of medical practice and have a breadth of medical leadership experience in formal leadership roles. Equally comfortable in the clinical, academic and administrative environments, you understand the needs of physicians in hospitals, and can support them in change management and opportunities for integrated care. You possess superb interpersonal, communication (oral and written), negotiation and change management skills and have a history of providing leadership to, and team building with, professional and clinical staff. Recognized as an effective change leader and successful in building relationships, you have demonstrated your commitment to quality improvement and broader systems-level change. You provide strategic leadership in an evolving, patient-centred healthcare organization, partnering with multi-level internal and external stakeholders.
To confidentially explore this opportunity, please email your resume or query, quoting the appropriate position title, to Judy Mandelman, at resumes@promeus.ca .
