EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Southbridge Care Homes; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Southbridge Care Homes is seeking an Executive Director to provide strategic leadership at the Ottawa long-term care residence. The role focuses on delivering high-quality resident care in a safe, healthy environment and leading multidisciplinary teams.

The ideal candidate has a health or social services degree, administrator certification, and extensive management experience in care settings. The position offers a permanent full-time role with a competitive salary in the Ontario market.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary degree (3-year) or diploma (2-year) in health or social services.
• Administrator’s Certification (minimum 100 hours).
• Ontario Fire Safety: Training for Owners/Operators course certificate.
• At least 3 years of managerial or supervisory experience in health or social services.
• Experience in long-term care administration is preferred.
• Existing Administrators OLTCHA provision knowledge.
• Candidates with prior admin roles since 2010 may be considered with relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership to ensure residents' goals and objectives are achieved.
• Manage all human, financial and physical resources for departments.
• Recruit team members and aid in their development through knowledge sharing.
• Engage with residents, families, and the local community to share mission and values.
• Collaborate on budgeting and oversee accounting within the residence.

Skills

Executive leadership

Healthcare management

Budget management

Staff development

Regulatory compliance

Education

Post-secondary degree in health or social services

Administrator Certification

Ontario Fire Safety course certificate

Job description

Home: Southbridge Ottawa Long Term Care

Position: Executive Director

Salary Range: $110,000.00 - $115,000.00

Status: Permanent full-time, vacancy

Welcome Home!

Southbridge Care Homes provides exceptional acquisition, management, and redevelopment services for long-term care homes and retirement communities across Southwestern and Eastern Ontario. Our mission is to maintain a best-in‑class portfolio that consistently delivers excellence in care and services while ensuring economic sustainability.

Reporting to the Regional Director, the Executive Director assumes ultimate responsibility for providing high quality care to all residents, while maintaining a safe and healthy environment for residents and staff.

As an Executive Director, you will be accountable for...

• Providing overall leadership to ensure that residents goals and objectives are achieved.
• Management of all humans, financial and physical resources for the various departments.
• Recruit team members and aid in their professional development by fostering an environment focused on knowledge sharing and skill building.
• Take part in the lives of the residents, their families’ and the local community to share the mission, vision and values of the residence.
• Collaborate in the budgeting process and manage the facility within the budget while overseeing the accounting operations for the residence.

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications and skills:

• Hold a post-secondary degree (3-year program), or post-secondary diploma (2-year program) in health or social services.
• Administrator’s Certification (Minimum 100 hours of instruction time completed or enrolled*).
• “Ontario Fire Safety: Training for Owners/Operators” Course Certificate.
• At least 3 years of working experience
• In a managerial or supervisory capacity in the health or social services sector; or
• In another managerial or supervisory capacity, if the Long-Term Care Administrator Certificate has been successfully completed.
• Existing Administrators OLTCHA Provision.
• Persons working or employed as Administrators on July 1, 2010, who do not have the above required qualifications, and who have continued to work in that position may be hired as Administrators if they:
• Have worked or been employed for at least three years as a long-term care home Administrator, and,
• Have successfully completed a program in long-term care home administration or management or, subject to the requirements of the OLTCHA, are enrolled in a program in long-term care home administration or management that meets the requirements of the Act.

Additional Qualification Includes

• Demonstrated effective leadership, communication (verbal and written) and comprehension skills.
• A passion and heart for helping those in the Retirement community.
• Excellent organizational, time management and multi-tasking skills.
• Customer-focused attitude, with an emphasis on building and maintaining relationships with clients.
• Ability to generate creative solutions and new approaches to daily challenges.
• Knowledge of Occupational Health and Safety practices, principles, and legislation.
• Sound knowledge of basic accounting principles and applicable legislation.

Southbridge Care Homes welcomes those applicants with disability related needs and those whom a need for accommodation in the recruitment process. Please provide notice of your need for accommodation to the hiring manager upon scheduling of an interview.