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Job ID: 22904
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Annualized Hiring Range: $112,243 - $154,334 *Compensation commensurate with experience
Target Openings: 1
Work Type: Hybrid
Hours of Work: 35.00
FTE: 1.00
Deadline to Apply: 2025-08-24

Position Description

The Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) program is looking for a highly qualified individual to join our dynamic team as the Senior Manager, Infection Prevention & Control.
Here's what you'll get to do

In this role, you will work closely with the Director and Medical Lead to provide leadership and direction in designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating SickKids' IPAC program. You will collaborate with the Director, the IPAC team, and other key stakeholders to establish short- and long-term goals that incorporate evidence-based principles of infection prevention and control and effectively use resources to promote a safe environment for patients, families, employees, and visitors to the hospital. The Senior Manager will be responsible for the daily operations of the program and some program service responsibilities. Additionally, you will align and develop IPAC resources to achieve program goals and objectives in support of SickKids' strategy and organizational priorities.

Here's what you'll need

• A Master's degree in Epidemiology, Healthcare Administration, Nursing, Quality and Safety or other related fields.
• Current registration/licensure with College of Nurses of Ontario or other relevant health care professional body.
• Certification in Infection Control (CIC) through the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology Inc or in progress.
• Active membership in relevant professional associations.
• A minimum of 3 years Infection Prevention and Control experience, and 3 years professional and/or management experience in an acute healthcare setting (Paediatric setting preferred).
• Extensive current knowledge of evidence-based IPAC principles along with advanced level leadership, collaboration, communication and educational skills.
• Skill and experience in change management at an organizational level.
• Competence in data management (collection, analysis, reporting) and the use of related data management tools and applications.
• Demonstrated commitment and actions in advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion objectives.

You will also have experience and skills related to:

• Environmental risk assessment and communicating trends, risk issues and recommendations.
• Employing quality improvement strategies to prevent and/or to manage patient risk.
• Collaborating on hospital wide educational programs.

Here's what you'll love

• This position is eligible for employee benefits coverage including but not limited to; health, dental and life insurance. The full benefits package will be discussed at the time of offer.
• A focus on employee wellness with our new Staff Health and Well-being Strategy. Self-care helps us support others.
• A hospital that welcomes and focuses on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
• A flexible remote hybrid work environment.
• The opportunity to make an impact. Regardless of your role or professional interest, you will be making a difference at SickKids and contributing to our vision of Healthier Children. A Better World.
• For more on why you'll love working at SickKids, visit our careers site.

Employment type

• Full-time (35 hours per week)
• Permanent
• Hybrid working model

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Job ID: 22834
Date Posted: 2025-07-23
Deadline to Apply: 2025-08-17
Target Openings: 1 

SickKids is on a very exciting journey to improve child health and outcomes through its precision child health movement.

Elevating Quality and the Care Experience is one of SickKids' four strategic directions in its SickKids2030 plan. Our goal is to diagnose faster, treat smarter and predict better while pursuing excellence in the delivery of safe, timely, effective, efficient, and equitable as well as child and family-centred care.  In addition, over the next five years, we are very focused on embedding proactive safety and prediction to eliminate preventable harm; advancing health equity and action on the social determinants of health and designing inclusive services that respond to patient and family needs.

There are specific principles and practices and strong synergy between the primary areas of this portfolio:  Quality, Patient Safety, Infection Prevention and Control and Emergency Preparedness.  This leadership role requires a dynamic, performance driven and innovative individual with both specialized and diverse knowledge and skill to develop people and systems to help us achieve our quality and safety aims.  SickKids and this role offer extraordinary opportunities to showcase and to develop leadership capabilities. 

Reporting to the Executive Vice President, this role provides senior leadership and oversight for the development, implementation and evaluation of SickKids' comprehensive strategies and programs to optimize organizational patient safety, quality improvement, infection prevention and control (IPAC) and emergency preparedness (EP) goals. The role advises and collaborates with a wide range of internal and external medical and operational stakeholders to establish quality and safety priorities with a focus on innovation, continuous improvement, service excellence and accelerate performance on quality and safety goals within the Hospital and among system partners.

Here's What You'll Get To Do

Strategic and Operational Leadership:

Overall responsibility for leading, in partnership with appropriate medical leadership, organizational quality improvement, patient safety, infection prevention and control and emergency preparedness strategic priorities.                           

• Quality Management:
  Provides direction and operational oversight for:

• • Ensuring all dimensions of quality remain a major strategic imperative for the organization:
  • Advancing patient safety by growing and advancing the organization's Caring Safely initiative.
  • Collaborating with Patient and Family Relations to ensure patient and family experience is reflected in all strategies related to quality.
  • Collaborating with EDI team to ensure quality strategies advance health equity and social determinants of health.
  • Collaborating with Process Improvement and Design teams to identify opportunities that advance quality through Lean initiatives / design thinking.
  • Collaboratively setting organizational priorities, strategies and goals for Quality Improvement.
  • Measuring, monitoring and managing these priorities in conjunction with various stakeholders across the organization to ensure strategic and operational goals are met.
  • Accreditation Canada processes.
  • Compliance with provincial quality legislation (Excellent Care for All Act 2010) including the development and public posting of an annual quality improvement plan (QIP).
  • Coordination of senior hospital and Board quality and safety committees (Quality Management Council, Medical Advisory Committee, Board Quality and Safety Committee) and a number of sub-committees.
  • Management of a comprehensive policy, procedure and guideline database.
  • Quality Improvement project ethical review and approval processes.
  • Collaboration/coordination of centralized and de-centralized quality and safety resources.
• Patient Safety Program and Serious Safety Event (SSE) Reviews:
  In collaboration with medical leadership, provides direction and operational oversight for:

• • Defining patient safety strategies and goals and leading hospital wide initiatives to enhance overall safety culture, primarily through operational leadership of SickKids' Caring Safely program which is intended to eliminate preventable patient and staff harm.
  • Management of all processes and policies related to Serious Safety Event (SSE) reviews.
  • Management of processes related to a comprehensive safety reporting system to optimize reporting and analysis of events in order to advance organizational learning from harm and near harm events.
  • Management of processes and policies related to hospital Morbidity and Mortality Committees.
  • Management of coroner requests and responses in collaboration with Chief Medical Officer (CMO).
  • Collaboration with external partners to advance SickKids' and system level safety priorities.
• Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC):
  Provides direction and operational oversight for:

• • Collaboratively co-leading with medical leadership, the development, implementation and evaluation of IPAC program strategic directions and goals aligned with best practices and regulatory requirements.
  • Monitoring and coordinating organizational compliance with mandated components of IPAC programs according to legislation, Ministry of Health directives/guidelines, and Accreditation Canada and other regulatory or best practice standards.  
  • Comprehensive surveillance and reporting programs in compliance with provincial legislation and for purposes of measuring quality improvement and identifying patient/staff safety issues.
  • Communicable diseases outbreak identification and management.
  • Effective evidence informed infection prevention policies and programs including but not limited to: hand hygiene, Routing Practices and Additional Precautions, cleaning, disinfection and sterilization, construction and facilities renewal projects, specialized consultation (e.g. nutrition/food services, pharmacy, animal research). 
  • Advising and collaborating with external partners (Health Canada, Public Health Ontario, Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee, Toronto Public Health, SickKids International projects).
• Emergency Preparedness (EP): 
  Provides direction and oversight for:
  • All aspects of an effective all hazards emergency preparedness program including preparedness policies and planning processes, `Colour Codes', communicable diseases, emergency planning, business continuity planning, and comprehensive staff training programs.
  • Develop and maintain effective relationships with key community partners and system to enhance EP.

Problem Solving

• Applies extensive expertise and judgement to operate at a high level of independent decision making and appropriately escalates/communicates issues for awareness and resolution as necessary. 
• Oversees the resolution of issues through collaboration and deployment of appropriate actions and resources.

People Management and Development

• Provides leadership and direction to the Quality Management, Patient Safety/Serious Safety Event, Infection Prevention & Control, and Emergency Preparedness teams including:  translation of SickKids' strategic directions, developing departmental strategic priorities, coaching, mentoring and facilitating professional development, action planning on engagement survey results, ensuring departmental alignment with external legislation/regulation.
• Lead and coordinate the work of specific teams ensuring appropriate allocation of resources in collaboration with EVP, Departmental Directors, Managers and Program Managers.
• Responsible for recruitment, performance management, and succession planning to sustain optimal performance in essential organizational core functions.  
• Responsible for awareness of and adherence to hospital policies related to employee/patient safety and for ensuring a safe workplace by modelling safety behaviours and by monitoring work behaviours and environments. 

Here's What You'll Need

• Master's degree in Quality and Safety, Health Sciences, Healthcare Administration, Nursing or related healthcare field required. 
• Excellent working knowledge of quality improvement methodologies, principles of high reliability organizations, patient safety science, human factors, infection prevention and control principles and practices, and emergency preparedness principles and practices.
• Demonstrated 5-7 years of successful mid-senior leadership experience in quality and safety in a complex, dynamic academic health science centre.
• Continuing education in all or some of quality improvement, patient safety, process improvement and project management, IPAC, emergency preparedness is highly desired.
• Exemplary communication skills: verbal/written, listening, discretion. 
• Exceptional people management skills: significant experience building and leading high-performance teams, employee engagement.
• Strong financial management skills: experience with building and managing a budget.
• Strong ability to effectively synthesize information from a variety of sources and with respect to multiple priorities to maintain course on key strategic priorities. 
• Exemplary skills in collaboration, consultation, negotiation, and facilitation among a wide range of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success in project management. 
• Knowledge of relevant IT systems and data management principles and practices. 

Other Assets:

• Demonstrated national/international level presentation experience.
• Participation in research and/or publication in quality and safety.
• Leadership/participation in procurement processes with external vendors. 
• Leadership roles in relevant external professional associations and/or government or regulatory body committees/working groups. 
• Understanding of artificial intelligence / machine learning and its application to quality and safety.

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent. Hybrid Work Model.

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Job ID: 21665
Deadline to Apply: Until Filled
Target Openings: 2

Position Description

Choosing to work for The Hospital for Sick Children means that you've chosen more than a job, you've chosen a career where you can have a meaningful impact on the lives of children, youth and families every day. Our staff are our greatest strength and SickKids works hard to provide a supportive working environment where Nurse Practitioners can give their best work possible. Working in collaboration with the interprofessional health care team, Nurse Practitioners at SickKids have the opportunity to provide expertise in the areas of:

• Clinical Practice
• Education, Mentorship, Research and Knowledge Translation
• Leadership and Organizational & Systems Management

SickKids is recognized as one of the world's foremost paediatric health-care institutions and is Canada's leading centre dedicated to advancing children's health. Nurse Practitioners play a critical role to our success.  We are currently looking for a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner to join the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Neonatology Program. As a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, you will provide leadership and promote inter-professional excellence and collaboration in child and family-centred -care within the five main role components of expert practice, education, consultation, research and leadership/change agency in a dynamic clinical environment. 

Here's What You'll Get To Do:

• Provide comprehensive health care for critically ill newborns within the NICU, coordinating the interdisciplinary plan of care
• Integrate nursing and medical skills and knowledge within a broad scope of advanced nursing practice
• Provide leadership in advancing clinical practice and the provision of safe and high quality child and family-centred care
• Foster interprofessional collaboration in the coordination of plans of care
• Assume a leadership role in advancing the quality of clinical practice and the provision of high quality, safe care
• Provide mentorship and coaching to support the development of nursing and Interprofessional colleagues
• Identify, integrate and evaluate research-based innovations for improving patient care
• Create, utilize and/or disseminate new knowledge using formal and informal channels
• Provide relevant health education to families that is based on their needs, learning styles and stage of development
• Provide leadership in planning for successful transition of infants outside of the NICU (within SickKids, as well as to referral hospitals)
• Identify and link to services and resources in community, provide assistance with acquiring specialized medical care for infants in the program and participate/lead in planning for transition of care
• Provide specialty consultation regarding neonatal care for teams within and outside of the hospital

Here's What You'll Need

• Master of Nursing or equivalent with a clinical focus
• Completion of a Nurse Practitioner program with a Neonatal emphasis
• Neonatal Nurse Practitioner certification
• Registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario within the RN (Extended Class)
• 3-5 years of clinical nursing experience in neonatology, experience as an NNP an asset
• Proven ability to provide leadership
• Ability to act as a change agent, and foster teamwork and consensus-building
• Innovative critical thinking with excellent communication, public speaking and problem solving skills
• Knowledge of theoretical and conceptual frameworks and their practical application
• Demonstrate commitment and actions in advancing equity, diversity and inclusion objectives

Here's What You'll Love 

• This position is eligible for employee benefits coverage including but not limited to; health, dental and life insurance. The full benefits package will be discussed at the time of offer. 
• A focus on employee wellness with our new Staff Health and Well-being Strategy. Self-care helps us support others.  
• A hospital that welcomes and focuses on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.  
• The opportunity to make an impact. Regardless of your role or professional interest, you will be making a difference at SickKids and contributing to our vision of Healthier Children. A Better World.  
• For more on why you'll love working at SickKids, visit our careers site.  

Employment Type

• Full-Time, Permanent (37.5  hours per week - 1.0 FTE)
• Min. to Max. Hourly Rate: $64.70 - $77.50 *Compensation commensurate with experience
• This position offers full benefits including health and dental coverage, vacation time, sick time, personal days, LTD, life insurance and the opportunity to participate in the SickKids Pension plan.

Please apply online via the SickKids Career Site at: https://career.sickkids.ca:8001/psc/CRPRD/CAREER/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=21665&PostingSeq=1

President & Chief Executive Officer

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital believes in creating a world where all youth and children belong. We are the only children’s rehabilitation hospital in Canada focused on combining world-class care, transformational research, and academic leadership in the field of child and youth rehabilitation and disability. We are a top 40 Canadian research hospital that is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. Providing both inpatient and outpatient services, Holland Bloorview is renowned for its expertise in co-creating with clients and families to provide exceptional care and is the only organization to ever achieve 100 per cent in three successive quality surveys by Accreditation Canada. Holland Bloorview is a founding member of Kids Health Alliance, a network of partners working to create a high quality, consistent and coordinated approach to pediatric health care that is centred around children, youth and their families. Together we dream big. Together we champion a world of possibility.

We are creating a world of possibility for kids and youth with disabilities. 

Reporting to the Board of Directors, the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Holland Bloorview) will assume leadership of Canada’s only freestanding paediatric hospital devoted exclusively to childhood-onset disability, injury, and developmental diversity. As a globally recognized academic health sciences centre, Holland Bloorview is distinguished by its excellence in clinical care including client and family centred co-creation of care, research, and education, as well as its unwavering commitment to inclusion, accessibility. The organization plays a pivotal role in Ontario’s paediatric healthcare system, connects hospitals and providers, and is a member of the Toronto Academic Health Science Network (TAHSN). Its influence extends nationally through its pioneering research, policy advocacy, and unwavering commitment to client and family engagement.

As the healthcare system undergoes a period of profound transformation, the organization is demonstrating future-readiness and decisive leadership by embracing fundamental shifts in care delivery, clinical practice, and the integration of emerging technologies. The CEO will lead this evolution with clarity and conviction, advancing the hospital’s strategic and operational agenda while ensuring continuity of its mission and stewardship of its resources. Oversight will encompass a broad enterprise that includes clinical programs, research initiatives, educational partnerships, advocacy, and system engagement. Guiding performance, enabling innovation, and navigating fiscal and operational complexity will require a rare combination of foresight, pragmatism, and courage.

The CEO is accountable for advancing Transformative Care, Inclusive World: Holland Bloorview 2030, Holland Bloorview’s strategic plan that sets a clear and ambitious course toward the most meaningful and healthy futures for all children, youth, and families. Developed through deep engagement with clients, families, staff, researchers, educators, and system partners, the plan is anchored in four strategic directions. The CEO is responsible for translating this vision into action by aligning priorities across the organization, removing barriers to providing care in partnership with families, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration, and ensuring that progress is guided by continuous reflection, shared learning, and measurable outcomes.

Externally, the CEO will serve as the hospital’s ambassador and champion, shaping relationships with academic and clinical partners, other stakeholders in the community, donors, and government representatives and elected officials at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels to secure ongoing and sustainable sources of funding. Engagement with the Holland Bloorview Foundation will be central to aligning philanthropic vision and accountability to donors with institutional goals. Strategic fluency, political acuity, and governance experience will all be vital in stewarding a complex, multi-stakeholder environment. Equally essential will be the ability to preserve what is most cherished within Holland Bloorview’s culture, while leading with imagination and integrity toward a bold and compassionate future.

As a uniquely qualified candidate, one who cares deeply for kids and families, the new CEO will bring a depth of character defined by humility, empathy, and integrity, matched by a capacity to inspire, advocate and lead across disciplines and sectors. The new CEO will bring a record of accomplishment in executive leadership roles and direct experience engaging with or reporting to a governing board, including a strong grasp of fiduciary responsibility and risk oversight. Comfortable within academic and policy environments, and genuinely connected to the experiences of children, families, and staff, the new CEO will embody the values of Holland Bloorview through presence, action, and enduring commitment. A Master’s degree or equivalent academic preparation is preferred.

To apply for this outstanding opportunity, please submit your application and related materials to Jim Stonehouse, Partner and Pamela Colquhoun, Partner via Kathy Luu, Senior Associate (kluu@boyden.com).

Holland Bloorview (www.hollandbloorview.ca) is committed to fostering a climate of inclusion, diversity, equity accessibility and anti-racism (IDEAA). We welcome and respect the diversity of all members of our community and we seek to create an inclusive culture for our staff, participants, trainees and volunteers. To help in our journey towards fully reflecting the communities we partner with, we welcome and encourage applications from Black individuals and other racialized persons, Indigenous Peoples, women, persons with disabilities, LGBTQI2SA+ persons and others who may contribute to further diversification of ideas within our community. Holland Bloorview is committed to fair assessment of a candidate's abilities, and consideration for diversity of thought, method and experience, including non-traditional career paths. Should applicants require accommodations during any stage in the recruitment process, please contact us.

Pediatric Outcomes imProvement through COordination of Research Networks (POPCORN)

POPCORN is seeking a visionary and collaborative leader to serve as its next Network Director (Nominated Principal Investigator - NPI).

About POPCORN

POPCORN is a national pediatric research platform dedicated to improving child and maternal health outcomes through coordinated, multi-disciplinary research efforts. With over 100 team members and partners, POPCORN integrates expertise across clinical, scientific, public health, and patient engagement domains.

Role Overview

The Network Director (NPI) will provide strategic leadership and oversight for the POPCORN Network and its research initiatives, including potential funding initiatives. As Chair of the Executive Committee, the NPI will guide the network’s scientific direction, operational coordination, working collaboratively with the operations’ team, and stakeholder engagement. The role may be shared with a co-director, if desired.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership and strategic direction for the POPCORN Network.
• Chair the Executive Committee and oversee network operations.
• Ensure alignment of POPCORN activities with its mission and objectives.
• Represent POPCORN in communications with granting agencies and other stakeholders and ensure POPCORN is visible.
• Assume administrative and financial responsibility for the grant.
• Foster collaboration across POPCORN’s pillars, committees, and partners.
• Plan for future funding opportunities.

Eligibility Criteria

• Be an established leader in pediatric health research or a related field.
• Demonstrate experience in leading large, multi-institutional research initiatives.
• Have a strong track record in research funding, administration, and stakeholder engagement.
• Be committed to principles of equity, diversity, inclusion, and Indigeneity (EDI+I).
• Be eligible to hold granting agency funding as a Nominated Principal Investigator at an eligible academic institution.
• Have been actively involved in POPCORN so far.
• Should not be the director of one of POPCORN’s network, while POPCORN network director.

Term and Succession

The term is for 2 years, renewable once. The NPI will provide a minimum of 3 months’ notice prior to stepping down to allow for succession planning. An overlap with the current NPI is desirable, with a start date as soon as possible but on March 1st 2026, at the latest.

Application Process

Interested candidates should submit:

1. A curriculum vitae (CV), no preferred format.
2. A letter of intent outlining their vision for POPCORN, leadership experience, whether they are open to a co-NPI, and alignment with POPCORN’s mission and values.

Deadline for submission: September 29, 2025

Submit applications to: Marianne Rufiange: Marianne.rufiange.hsj@ssss.gouv.qc.ca

Selection Process

Applications will be reviewed by a selection committee composed of the POPCORN Executive Committee.
Shortlisted candidates may be invited for interviews. Final selection will be made by vote of the Executive Committee. Applicants will be notified of the outcome within 4–6 weeks of the submission deadline.

Questions?

• Should you wish to discuss the role further before applying, please reach out to Caroline Quach-Thanh: Caroline.quach-thanh.med@ssss.gouv.qc.ca
• For questions about the application process, please reach out to Marianne Rufiange: Marianne.rufiange.hsj@ssss.gouv.qc.ca