Director, Learning Institute

Women's College Hospital; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking institution dedicated to revolutionizing healthcare for women. As the Director of Learning, you will lead strategic initiatives to enhance academic education and foster an equitable learning environment. Collaborate with diverse teams, innovate educational strategies, and ensure best practices in clinical training. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of healthcare education while making a meaningful impact in the community. If you’re passionate about advancing healthcare and education, this is the perfect role for you.

Benefits

Competitive Benefits

Defined Benefit Pension Plan (HOOPP)

Supportive Work Environment

Commitment to Equity and Diversity

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Adult Education required.
• 10+ years of management experience in a teaching hospital environment.

Responsibilities

• Develops and executes strategies for the Learning Institute.
• Leads policy decisions for program design and execution.
• Oversees medical simulation lab programs and curriculum.

Skills

Leadership

Collaborative Skills

Communication Skills

Financial Analysis

Educational Strategy Development

Equity and Diversity Principles

Education

Master’s degree in Adult Education

Job description

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Women's College Hospital (WCH) is an academic, ambulatory care hospital in Ontario with a focus on health for women, health equity and health system solutions. If you're ready to be part of a team that is revolutionizing the future of healthcare, then you will want to join an institution where the possibilities for innovation, new discovery and system thinking are limitless. Women's College Hospital is committed to equity, quality and patient safety as key professional values and essential components of daily practice.

Healthcare Revolutionized 2030 is our roadmap to the future. Our strategy is built on the pledge that the founders of our hospital made 140 years ago and reaffirms our commitment to providing equitable, accessible, best-in-class healthcare for everyone – meeting people where they are on their healthcare journey and partnering with them to reach their goals of living their healthiest lives possible. The stage has been set for Women’s to accelerate our priorities and capture the momentum to catapult our system forward to revolutionize healthcare for everyone.

Applicants must reside and be legally eligible to work in Ontario.

This is a Regular Full-Time Role

Type: Replacement

The Position

Reporting to the Vice-President of Academics, the Director position provides strategic and operational leadership and mentorship, to oversee all aspects of academic education at WCH. You will work closely with internal and external leadership to help guide our Learning Institute, the long-term academic and education strategy and the goal to be a learning health system; while demonstrating passion to support and lead academic education for the next generation of health care professionals. The Director role has specific leadership responsibilities to design and deliver an academic educational strategy that is both equity-focused and interprofessional. In addition, you will ensure that there is an optimal learning environment for students/learners, faculty and staff in our affiliation with the University of Toronto and other learning organizations and collaborates with the Education Scientists to lead academic education scholarship. You will collaborate with the Director, Research & Innovation Institute and Manager, Learning Health System to ensure the success of the Academics portfolio aligned with the new hospital strategy. This role will also oversee the development, implementation, and continuous enhancement of medical simulation lab programs and curriculum development to advance experiential learning and clinical training.

Responsibilities

Job Description

• Develops and executes short and long-term strategies and plans for the Learning Institute (Education), collaborating with Vice President, Academics and the Academics team and ensuring alignment with broader Academic goals and strategies and organization strategic/operational plans.
• Leads policy decisions and operational plans for program design, development, and execution of the Learning Institute in collaboration with the VP Academics
• Develops and operationalizes program specific goals and objectives for the Learning Institute
• Develops, and ensures successful execution of strategic milestones
• Develops, monitors, and reports process and outcome measures that facilitate implementation of the Learning Institute goals and priorities.
• Collaborates with leaders of other portfolios to develop and implement joint initiatives and ongoing quality improvement strategies as part of the Learning Institute.
• Works with Directors in the academic portfolio and Program Directors to set the operational priorities and goals for the Learning Institute
• Develops and oversees medical simulation lab programs, ensuring best practices in clinical education, skill development, and interprofessional training.
• Evolves the organizational structure for the Learning Institute
• Oversees the administration and coordination of the WCH student/learner placement program
• Ensures equitable access to students/learners and staff to academic educational offerings
• Provides leadership and support for the Library, setting direction and collaborating with programs and services ensuring services meet stakeholder/customer needs
• Manages education infrastructure development initiatives, developing and implementing work plans and budgets, monitoring delivery timelines, resolving issues, and ensuring deliverables and expectations are effectively managed
• Working with the Education Scientist, sets the strategy for education scholarship at WCH
• Working with the Manager Patient and Family Engagement, develops the strategy to develop relationships with the community and meaningfully engage patients/families/communities in research, education, and quality improvement projects
• Supports and integrates principles of equity and diversity in initiatives/strategies to ensure an inclusive clinical education environment and practice
• Identifies and develops opportunities for improving quality of services delivered, ensuring alignment with WCH priorities, developing indicators and measurement tools.
• Supports and implements a conducive environment to continuous quality improvement
• Manages, mentors, and provides leadership to reports
• Develops and monitors the annual budget for Education/Learning Institute to ensure successful achievement of all financial goals and objectives
• Develops business proposals and prepares reports and business cases for funding requests and to support innovative programming.
  
  

As a role model and champion, you will work to identify and integrate safe, best practices into daily activities to foster the delivery of safe and exemplary care.

The responsibilities described above are representative and are not to be construed as all-inclusive.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Adult Education or any related program of study is required
• Proven superior collaborative, results-based leadership skills with the ability to make a strong impact with a minimum of ten (10) years related management experience, preferably working in a teaching hospital environment.
• Experience in establishing new teaching programs or services in complex, integrated and collaborative environments
• Knowledge of best practices in experiential learning, clinical training, and healthcare simulation.
• Considerable innovative and creative talents to effectively assess strategic goals and translate into operational tactics and to seek out and capture opportunities for leveraging knowledge partnerships
• Highly effective interpersonal, collaborative, relationship building and coaching skills, able to develop and maintain relationships with people representing a range of sectors, and foster change
• Effective stakeholder engagement and communication skills to ensure effective communication at all levels of the organization including staff, researchers, scientists, and academics, internally and externally
• Superior ability to conceptualize, engage in systems-level thinking, and execute change management
• Proven competence in financial analysis and budget planning, development and analysis
• Excellent written and oral communication skills to create correspondence and reports, and prepare and deliver presentations, educational materials, and conduct meetings
• Demonstrated commitment to WCH vision, mission and values
• Demonstrated record of good performance and acceptable attendance will be considered as part of the selection criteria
• This position plays a critical role in acting as an advocate for safety and will demonstrate principles, practices and processes that will optimize a safe environment for all.
  
  

Why Choose Us?

• Be part of a dedicated team committed to excellence.
• Shape the future of healthcare in a supportive environment.
• Enjoy competitive benefits and an excellent defined benefit pension plan (HOOPP).
  
  

Women's College Hospital is a fully affiliated teaching hospital of the University of Toronto and is committed to fairness and equity in employment and our recruitment and selection practices. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, members of racialized groups, women and any others who may contribute to the further diversification of our Hospital community. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under our Access for People with Disabilities policy. Applicants need to make their requirements known in advance.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Human Resources

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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