Director, Integrated Care, Algoma Ontario Health Team, 2-Year Contract – Full Time

The Algoma Ontario Health Team (AOHT)

We are a team of local health professionals, organizations, and community members working together towards a more integrated health system for Algoma residents.

The AOHT was officially formed in 2020 to improve coordination of care for Algoma communities. We are working to create a network where patients will have access to the right care, right team, and right care setting when they need it. We want individuals to experience seamless transitions throughout their care journey in a system that is understandable, digitally-enabled, and collaborative.

For our team, integrated care means coordinating efforts across health and social service organizations to improve the experience of Algoma residents. From a patient perspective, integrated care means receiving a continuum of connected services from one large team, regardless of where care, services, and resources are accessed. The AOHT is one of 51 OHTs approved by the Ministry of Health to support integrated care in Ontario. To learn more about the AOHT visit www.algomaoht.ca.

Purpose of the Position

Administratively reporting to the President and CEO, Sault Area Hospital, the Director, Integrated Care functionally reports to the Tri-Chairs of the Algoma Ontario Health Team’s Leadership Council. The Director, Integrated Care is responsible for advancing the development of an integrated health system by:

Enabling the development of a vision and strategy
Ensuring mutually reinforcing activities, including:
- communication, engagement and partnerships
- data collection, analysis, measurement, and reporting
- quality improvement and change management
Coordination of system-wide projects and maintaining momentum
Advancing integrated care policy and mobilizing funding
Managing joint resources, including the AOHT Transformation Office and project resources

Job Duty –Management:

Builds broad system-wide capability, including people, processes, and structures
Champions quality, systems improvement and change management activities/work
Collaborates and engages with stakeholders across the health and social system in a transparent manner
Creates a supportive learning environment where mistakes are considered as vehicles for learning
Develops engagement, communications and partnership strategies
Develops, reviews and monitors the AOHT annual budget, including Transfer Payment Agreements
Engages others through open and planned communication
Ensures appropriate organizational (Transformation Office), governance, and project support
Ensures that program policies, procedures, systems and accountability measures are in place
Identifies unique opportunities to achieve positive outcomes for clinicians, frontline staff, leaders, and patients.
Implements strategic decisions across multiple organizations and monitors performance
Maintains current knowledge of best practices and benchmarks for advancing integrated care
Meets regularly with stakeholders to keep them informed of new developments or continuing progress
Plans, delivers, resources and monitors major, organizational, and system-wide projects
Prepares materials for presentation, information, approval and/or action at various organizational and system governance tables
Proactively seeks funding opportunities and secures funding opportunities and responds to funding or grant opportunities that aim to improve quality in service and aligns with strategic vision
Supports system governance and decision-making as the lead executive for Leadership Council
Understands and uses informal structures (identifies key influencers, decision-makers, etc.). Identifies key people inside and outside the organization who can help to influence or get things done
Uses data to accurately forecast and plan for future workforce, governance and project support requirements
Uses data to identify opportunities for new and/or improved service delivery

Job Duty – Supervision & Mentorship:

Champions and establishes an inclusive, diverse and psychologically safe work environment
Coaches and mentors emerging leaders, staff, and AOHT leadership, committee, and working group members
Cultivates a work culture that fosters a collective identity, sense of belonging and personal accomplishment
Helps others understand the broader context of their work
Holds others and self directly accountable for delivering what has been agreed to
Monitors team performance by establishing a performance plan for each team member, setting goals and targets and consistently discussing overall achievement and progress
Supports and role models the mission, vision and values of the AOHT
Works to empower team members to work to their highest level of performance

Job Duty – Population Health Planning:

Analyzes information to seek consensus on priorities, and makes decisions to design, implement and evaluate new services and policies to advance the health of populations
Develops and fosters joint accountability by developing analytical frameworks, logic models, performance dashboards to assess progress on the annual, strategic plan and stated quality-focused goals and objectives
Ensures fidelity to the defined OHT building blocks, as directed by the Ministry of Health and Ontario Health
Leads the process to develop and operationalize a roadmap to advance integrated care in a widely consultative manner that involves clinicians, frontline staff, leaders, and patients across the health and social system
Resources work outlined in annual and strategic plan, monitors financial health of plan, monitors identified risks and mitigation strategies and tracks progress on identified metrics
Uses population health data and key indicators to identify systemic variations and patterns in health
Works to advance an equity-informed approach, including working with equity-seeking groups, including, but not limited to, Indigenous peoples, official language minority communities, and underserved communities

Job Duty – Health & Social System Leadership:

Actively manages funder relationships with the Ministry of Health and Ontario Health and attracts new resources for Algoma
Builds coalitions and mobilizes action across the health and social system to advance the work of the AOHT
Mediates conflict and seeks resolution between stakeholders with the goal of providing seamless care and improving the patient experience
Works to advance a single clinical and fiscal accountability framework across Algoma, including supporting leadership and board members of AOHT partners to develop joint accountabilities

Staffing and Licensing Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in business or a health-related discipline
10+ years progressive work experience in the health system, with 5+ years in a leadership position
Bilingualism is considered an asset

The Algoma Ontario Health Team is a respectful, caring, and inclusive workplace. We are committed to championing accessibility, diversity, equal opportunity and maintaining a barrier-free selection process for job applicants. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process providing the applicant has met the requirements for the open position. Applicants need to make their requirements known to the Human Resources department when contacted. All requests are handled confidentially.

We thank all applicants; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Note All new employees shall be fully vaccinated against COVID 19-prior to their start date. For clarity, fully vaccinated means that 14 days have elapsed after completion of your vaccine series (i.e. full two doses). The Hospital’s Occupational Health team will require evidence of full vaccination prior to an employee’s start date. If not fully vaccinated, the Hospital’s Occupational Health team can assist successful applicants with setting up the necessary appointments to become fully vaccinated, but any start date may be delayed to the date on which a successful applicant becomes fully vaccinated. The hospital’s requirement that successful applicants be fully vaccinated is subject to any accommodation obligations it may have under the Human Rights Code. Employees shall also be required to obtain boosters or other vaccinations related to COVID-19, as deemed necessary by the Hospital, and any failure to do so will be considered wilful misconduct and/or disobedience and will result in the termination of the Employee’s employment without notice or pay in lieu thereof.