Director, Nursing Practice and Education

Director, Nursing Practice and Education

As a Catholic hospital, founded in 1892 by the Sisters of St. Joseph to care for the sick and the poor of Toronto's inner city, St. Michael's Hospital has a long and proud history of caring and compassion. Today, St. Michael’s Hospital is one of the most exciting and diverse hospitals in Canada and the world. Every year, its 4,800 staff and 600 physicians teach 1,800 students, perform 25,000 day surgeries, treat 600,000 patients in clinics, see 54,000 patients in the emergency room and provide round-the-clock care to 24,000 inpatients.

St. Michael’s Hospital is currently seeking to recruit a Director, Nursing Practice and Education. The Director, Nursing Practice and Education will establish and maintain a collaborative practice environment by providing professional leadership and structures and processes for the advancement of: professional practice and education within a program-based management structure; clinical standards for professional practice. He or she will develop Professional Practice Governance strategies and tactics that contribute to the achievement of broad programmatic and corporate goals. The mandate includes: establishing processes to minor professional certification; developing, updating and measuring professional practice standards for nursing in accordance with the College of Nurses of Ontario and hospital directives.

The successful candidate will possess:

• A Masters degree in Nursing;
• current knowledge of regulatory bodies and the Regulated Health Professions Act, as well as demonstrated knowledge of professional governance, operation of the colleges and directives;
• a management style that is visionary, creative, collaborative and supportive of the vision, goals and mission and values of the Hospital;
• demonstrated commitment to professional and staff development and to the enhancement of academic excellence and with proven oral and written communication skills

To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please submit your resume, in confidence, to deborah.kornachuk@rayberndtson.ca. We would like to thank all applicants for this position, but regret that we are only able to personally contact those applicants whose background most closely matches the requirements of the role.