Director, Houses of Providence

Providence Healthcare, located in Toronto at Warden and St. Clair, is a leading Toronto sub-acute health care facility, specializing in rehabilitation for patients who have experienced strokes, orthopaedic surgery, or lower limb amputation, or who require specialized geriatric rehabilitation, assessment and treatment. It also provides complex continuing care, long-term care and community outreach with a particular focus on addressing the medical, physical, spiritual and emotional needs of individuals with geriatric conditions.

Programs and services are provided through three Integrated Care Divisions:

• Providence Hospital, with 347 beds, is one of Ontario’s largest rehabilitation and complex continuing care hospitals;
• Cardinal Ambrozic Houses of Providence, is a long-term care facility for 288 residents;
• Providence Community Centre, specializes in community clinics, caregiver support, education and neighbourhood outreach programs, such as the nationally acclaimed Alzheimer Day Program, and the innovative Tamil Caregiver Project.

Providence Healthcare currently has a need for a Director, Houses of Providence. The Director is responsible for the leadership and management of the Houses of Providence in a manner that is consistent with the mission, and vision of Providence Healthcare and its priorities for service, research, education and advocacy. This position requires an individual with vision, who values the resilience of the human spirit and who believes that in spite of age, disability or frailty, all individuals have potential for ongoing growth, excitement and satisfaction with life, which can be combined effectively with their care needs.

The successful candidate will:

• Be a clinician registered under the RHPA, RN preferred with a current CNO certificate of competence;
• Ideally possess a Masters degree;
• Have demonstrated management experience in long-term care;
• Possess strong personal leadership, communication and management skills with an exceptional ability to motivate, encourage continuous learning and develop staff; in addition, excellent interpersonal, negotiation and consensus building skills.

To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please send your resume, in confidence, to: hayley.millard@rayberndtson.ca.