Job ID: 22834
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.