Manager, Legal Services and General Counsel

London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC); London; Hybrid; CAD 133,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is seeking a Manager, Legal Services & General Counsel to provide strategic legal leadership across medical-legal services and contract reviews. The role focuses on high-risk patient matters, regulatory issues, and collaboration with external counsel and insurers.

You will oversee risk, liability assessments, and policy development, while guiding a team in a hospital setting. Hybrid work options may apply, with work performed in Ontario.

Qualifications

• Licensed Ontario lawyer with JD degree and bar status.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for medical legal and contract consultants.
• Lead comprehensive legal reviews and assess liability and compliance.
• Collaborate with executive leadership, external counsel, insurers, and internal stakeholders.
• Oversee day-to-day department activities and staffing within approved budgets.
• Foster healthy work environments and drive initiatives for performance excellence.

Skills

Advanced legal analysis

Ontario lawyer

Legal judgment

Legal research

Contract review

Negotiation

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

JD degree

Ontario Bar license

Tools

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Posting Period: October 29 – November 17, 2026

Salary: $133,107.00 - $166,413.00 per year

Who We Are

For 150 years, London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) has been a leader in world-class care. As an acute tertiary and quaternary teaching hospital, LHSC provides leading-edge medical care to people from across western Ontario and beyond. LHSC is located just two hours from Toronto and two hours from Detroit in the city of London which is known for its beautiful and walkable downtown core located on the Thames River, a vibrant culinary scene and scores of activities that highlight local arts, culture and music. Our team of more than 17,000 physicians, staff, learners and volunteers works tirelessly to support patients as they navigate their unique health-care journeys. As one of Canada’s largest acute-care teaching hospitals, LHSC is a renowned centre of innovation with a history of groundbreaking research that has influenced how people are cared for around the world. With nearly 1 million annual patient visits across University, Victoria and Children's Hospitals, LHSC provides compassionate leading-edge care and is proud of our strong regional, national and international partnerships. For more information, please visit www.lhsc.on.ca.

The Quality, Risk, and Privacy Department provides integrated leadership, expertise, and operational support to advance safe, high-quality, accountable care across the organization. The department brings together quality improvement, patient safety, privacy, enterprise risk management, emergency preparedness, and policy development under a coordinated framework that supports planning, governance, performance monitoring, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement. Through the Quality Blueprint, the department helps align quality, risk, and safety priorities, with organizational objectives, enabling leaders and teams to identify risks, act on improvement opportunities, strengthen accountability, and sustain reliable, patient-centred care.

What the Role Is

The Manager, Legal Services & General Counsel provides strategic leadership to for medical legal and contract consultants, while directing and evaluating the delivery of contractual and legal services across London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC). This role will act as a trusted advisor, offering expert legal counsel and representation on complex claims, litigation risks, regulatory matters, and high-risk patient issues. The Manager will also lead comprehensive legal reviews, analyze liability and compliance, and serve as a key collaborator with executive leadership, external counsel, insurers, and internal stakeholders. Exercising high-level independent professional judgment, the role will assess legal risks, shape litigation strategies, and protect organizational interests to ensure lawful, defensible, and risk-informed decision-making.

Reporting to the Director, Quality, Risk and Corporate Privacy Officer , the Manager, Legal Services & General Counsel directs, controls and evaluates the delivery of department services. They are responsible for translating decisions of the program leadership into execution, by utilizing relationship management and working with internal and external partners to achieve the necessary outcomes. The Manager ensures their team and department operations are aligned with our mission, vision and values, while working together to successfully achieve our strategic objectives.

This role is accountable for day-to-day department activities, including the management of human and material resources, day-to-day staffing and scheduling, development and support of a healthy workplace, risk and utilization measurements, and facilitation of improvement initiatives and change management, while operating within approved operational budgets and financial guidelines and controls. A major focus of the role is fostering effective working relationships and networks within the team/unit and with other teams across the organization.

LHSC is committed to the principles of hybrid work and may offer this option to employees whose work can be performed in an alternate location, without adverse impact to the operations of the Hospital, inclusive of our Staff and Patient experience. Confirmation of hybrid work options available to you will be clarified upon hire and may be subject to change based on the duties required of your position. Successful candidates will be required to perform work within Ontario and must be available to work on location, as required.

Who You Are

• You are self-aware of own assumptions, values, principles, strengths and limitations
• You manage and develop self while modeling qualities such as honesty, integrity, resilience, and confidence
• You engage and support others to foster development, personal goals and encourage a healthy organization
• You achieve results by strategically aligning direction, decisions, actions and evaluation with the vision, values and evidence
• You facilitate an environment of collaboration and cooperation
• You create connections, build partnerships and networks
• You demonstrate a commitment to the organizational vision, mission, values and service excellence
• You are a transformational thinker that encourages and supports innovation
• You have exceptional analytical skills that contribute to effective decision-making
• You are self-directed, courageous, and highly motivated with excellent interpersonal and effective communication skills

What Skills Are Needed

• Advanced legal analysis and professional judgment as a licensed Ontario lawyer
• Knowledge of Ontario health law, civil litigation, privacy, consent and capacity, disclosure, professional regulation, and hospital legal risk
• Knowledge of contract law, procurement-related legal issues, indemnity, limitation of liability, insurance, confidentiality, intellectual property, and termination provisions
• Strong legal research, statutory interpretation, fact investigation, and case analysis skills
• Ability to provide clear, practical, and defensible legal advice to leadership, staff, external counsel, insurers, and other stakeholders
• Ability to draft, review, interpret, and provide practical advice on contracts, agreements, amendments, and related legal documents
• Ability to manage multiple legal files, deadlines, priorities, and competing requests
• Sound professional judgment in complex, sensitive, and high-risk legal and patient-related matters
• Experience providing legal advice in a hospital, health system, litigation, insurance, or public-sector environment preferred
• Negotiation, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills preferred
• Experience supporting litigation, including document review, case preparation, discovery, and collaboration with external counsel and insurers preferred
• Planning and executing action plans that deliver results and motivate individuals for greater performance excellence
• Strong business acumen
• Values-based leadership and a proven track record for developing and sustaining healthy work environments and effective teams while leading in a performance-driven culture
• Lead and drive system transformation
• Develop self and others through teaching, coaching, mentoring and formal development processes
• Strong analytical skills that contribute to effective problem solving and decision-making

What You Will Bring with You

• Successful completion of a recognized baccalaureate degree program in law, legal studies, health administration, public administration, business administration, nursing, or a related discipline
• Completion of a Juris Doctor (JD) degree or equivalent
• Currently licensed to practice law in Ontario; called to the Ontario Bar and in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario
• Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) or mediation training preferred
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ related experience preferred
• Minimum of 1-3 years’ experience in progressively more responsible leadership roles preferred
• Ability to effectively work with diversity, appreciating that different opinions, backgrounds and characteristics can bring richness to the challenge at hand
• Fluent and computer literate with computer systems such as email and Microsoft Office applications (MS Word, Excel & PowerPoint)
• Demonstrated ability to attend work on a regular basis

As part of the assessment process applicants may be required to complete a written profile, presentations, etc. Please be advised that reference checks may be conducted as part of the selection process.

Immunization Requirements

Before beginning employment at LHSC, all new hires must provide documentation related to LHSC’s Health Review Requirements. For more information and a detailed list of requirements, please visit Health Review Requirements | LHSC.

Additional Information

London Health Sciences Centre fosters a culture of patient and staff safety whereby all employees are guided by LHSC's Mission, Vision, Values and Code of Conduct.

LHSC does not use artificial intelligence (AI) to screen, assess or select applicants for a position.

Your interest in this opportunity is appreciated. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Successful candidates, as a condition of job offer, would be required to provide a satisfactory police information check (original document) completed in the last 6 months.

LHSC is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from women, visible minorities, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, and members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. We are committed to providing persons with disabilities equal opportunities and standards of goods and services, and are also fully compliant with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (2005), as applicable.