Clinical Director Forensics

CAMH•Toronto, ON

About The Position

The Clinical Director leads interdisciplinary teams across secure inpatient units and community forensic services, ensuring alignment with CAMH’s mission, values, and strategic priorities, as well as provincial legislation and standards governing forensic mental health care. The Clinical Director works in a dyad with the Chief of the division to provide overall leadership for the program. Reporting to the Vice President, Clinical Operations, collaborates with the Professional Practice Office, Director, Clinical Quality, Physician Leaders, and other key organizational leaders, to enhance excellence in practice and professional standards, quality of care, efficient and effective fiscal resource management, safety and risk management, program planning, change management and service excellence and evaluation. The Clinical Director advances the concepts, infrastructures and relationships required for a programmatic focus. This work involves strong collaborations with leadership colleagues across CAMH, and with partners in the health system for to develop and deliver programming that meets the needs of patients and families. The Clinical Director is accountable for developing and implementing strategies that create a supportive environment to advance education and research. For example, this includes ensuring collaboration with clinical and research teams to support patients participation in clinical trials should they choose. It also includes ensuring that clinical students/trainees are effectively onboarded and supported during their clinical placements in collaboration with the CAMH Student Centre. Clinical Directors are responsible for the financial management across the portfolio of programs, from both an operational and strategic perspective, creatively using strategies to direct resources to where they are needed. The Clinical Director supports the achievement of the goals of an academic health science centre as it relates to education and research. This includes supporting and assisting education and clinical research leads in navigating access to programs and teams to support their efforts. For clinical research, it includes supporting managers and staff to ensure participation in research opportunities is available to patients. The Clinical Director is a member of the Clinical Leadership Team of the hospital, organizes/chairs leadership forums within the programs and also participates actively in other committees/forums related to corporate strategy and operations. Through its core values of Courage, Respect and Excellence, CAMH is implementing its Strategic Plan: Connected CAMH, to transform lives, ignite innovation and discovery, revolutionize education and drive social change. CAMH is more than a hospital, it is a cause. CAMH is on a mission to change the way society thinks about and responds to mental illness. They aim to eliminate prejudice and discrimination and shape a world where mental illness is central to our healthcare system – a world where Mental Health is Health. To learn more about CAMH, please visit their website at: www.camh.ca. To view our Land Acknowledgment, please click here.

Requirements

Leadership experience in a clinical setting.
Understanding of provincial legislation and standards governing forensic mental health care.
Experience in financial management (operational and strategic).
Experience in advancing education and research initiatives.
Experience in collaborating with clinical and research teams.
Experience in onboarding and supporting students/trainees.
Experience in supporting academic health science centre goals related to education and research.
Membership in a Clinical Leadership Team.
Ability to organize/chair leadership forums.
Ability to participate in committees/forums related to corporate strategy and operations.

Responsibilities

Leads interdisciplinary teams across secure inpatient units and community forensic services.
Ensures alignment with CAMH’s mission, values, and strategic priorities, as well as provincial legislation and standards governing forensic mental health care.
Works in a dyad with the Chief of the division to provide overall leadership for the program.
Collaborates with Professional Practice Office, Director, Clinical Quality, Physician Leaders, and other key organizational leaders to enhance excellence in practice and professional standards, quality of care, efficient and effective fiscal resource management, safety and risk management, program planning, change management and service excellence and evaluation.
Advances concepts, infrastructures, and relationships required for a programmatic focus.
Develops and delivers programming that meets the needs of patients and families in collaboration with leadership colleagues across CAMH and partners in the health system.
Develops and implements strategies that create a supportive environment to advance education and research.
Ensures collaboration with clinical and research teams to support patient participation in clinical trials.
Ensures clinical students/trainees are effectively onboarded and supported during their clinical placements in collaboration with the CAMH Student Centre.
Responsible for financial management across the portfolio of programs, from both an operational and strategic perspective.
Supports the achievement of the goals of an academic health science centre as it relates to education and research.
Supports and assists education and clinical research leads in navigating access to programs and teams.
Supports managers and staff to ensure participation in research opportunities is available to patients.
Organizes/chairs leadership forums within the programs.
Participates actively in other committees/forums related to corporate strategy and operations.