Manager

Your Opportunity:

The Alberta Children’s Hospital (ACH) is a bright modern, family centered facility that is a cornerstone for quality inpatient and ambulatory clinical care and research for the children of Calgary and southern Alberta. Reporting to the Allied Health Patient Care Manager (PCM), you will have direct accountability for Physiotherapy and adjacent programs. We are looking for an energetic, engaged leader who enjoys being a part of a large team, thrives on learning new things and working collaboratively to tackle diverse opportunities and challenges. As the Unit Manager, you will engage with a diverse group of site leaders and physicians in supporting your team’s ability to deliver inpatient and outpatient services that are high quality, accessible, and evidence based. Your day-to-day responsibilities include employee recruitment and supervision (team of approximately 80), coaching and performance management, budgetary oversight, and facilitating the achievement of strategic goals within the portfolio, ACH and the organization. The successful UM will have a demonstrated passion for continuous improvement and innovation, be able to function well in a team environment, and be highly motivated to work as an integral part of a committed leadership team. As the successful candidate you will demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills, be an advocate for patient engagement, model patient and family-centered care, be a great team player and a leader for change to meet our growing and diverse pediatric population needs.

Description:

The Unit Manager: Allied Health is a leadership role within the ACH Ambulatory Portfolio and reports directly to the Patient Care Manager, Allied Health. The Unit Manager is responsible and accountable for providing direction, team leadership and organization of clinical operations and patient care delivery. The position is accountable for making clinic/service-level decisions, has direct leadership responsibility for the development and achievement of clinic/service level goals and objectives, and contributes to the development and achievement of the goals of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Ambulatory Portfolio. Duties include human resource management such as staff recruitment, coaching and performance management and facilitating the achievement of strategic goals for all areas of the portfolio in collaboration with the program staff, Discipline Leaders, Physician dyads and Patient Care Manager. The Unit Manager is expected to participate in change management, program development, fiscal accountability, and operational direction for the program and the site.