Vice President, Quality, Risk, Patient Experience, Professional Practice & Chief Nursing Executive (VP and CNE)
Position
Vice President, Quality, Risk, Patient Experience, Professional Practice & Chief Nursing Executive (VP and CNE)Description
This is a defining executive leadership opportunity within one of Ontario’s largest and most dynamic community academic health systems. At a time of significant organizational growth, continued academic growth, and ongoing digital transformation, the VP and CNE will play a central role in shaping the future of clinical excellence, patient-centred care, and organizational performance across Osler.
As a key member of the Executive Team and Clinical Operations Leadership, the VP and CNE provides enterprise-wide leadership for quality and patient safety, professional practice, patient experience and health justice, enterprise risk management, ethics and spiritual care, emergency preparedness, and business continuity. Building upon a strong and highly respected foundation, the VP and CNE will advance strategic priorities related to quality and patient safety, professional practice excellence, workforce development, academic practice partnerships, digital innovation, and equitable, person-centred care. The successful candidate will serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and the Board while fostering a culture grounded in collaboration, accountability, continuous learning, and improvement.
Key leadership priorities for the new VP and CNE will be to:
- Advance quality, patient safety, and clinical excellence within a Just Culture.
- Lead and support effective governance in practice, quality and risk
- Continue to strengthen professional practice, nursing leadership, and workforce development.
- Enhance patient experience, health justice, and person-centred care.
- Further Osler’s academic mandate through practice partnerships, education, and interprofessional learning.
- Lead clinical transformation through digital innovation and evidence-informed practice.
- Continue to advance organizational resilience through strong risk management, emergency preparedness, and business continuity.
- Contribute to organizational strategy, growth, and transformation as a member of the Executive Team.
Experience Required
The ideal candidate is a highly respected healthcare executive with progressive senior leadership experience in a complex hospital, integrated health system, or similarly sophisticated environment. They bring demonstrated success advancing quality, patient safety, professional practice, patient experience, and organizational transformation, coupled with a strong understanding of clinical governance, academic practice, and health system partnerships. Recognized for their strategic leadership, hospital operational acumen, and ability to build trusted relationships, they work effectively with Boards, physicians, clinicians, academic partners, government, and health system stakeholders to advance organizational priorities. The successful candidate is a collaborative and emotionally intelligent leader who excels in navigating complexity, fostering alignment, and driving continuous improvement in support of exceptional patient care and organizational performance.
To confidentially explore this opportunity, please email your resume or query to Judy Mandelman or Heather Spiegel at resumes@promeus.ca.
Employer
William Osler Health System (Osler) is one of Ontario’s largest and most dynamic community academic health systems, serving 1.3 million residents across one of the fastest-growing and most diverse regions in the province. Osler is comprised of three hospital sites: Brampton Civic Hospital, Etobicoke General Hospital, and the Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness, as well as a Reactivation Care Unit and a Withdrawal Management Centre. With an annual budget of $950 million and more than 15,000 team members and physicians, Osler delivers high-quality, patient-centred care through skilled, professional, multidisciplinary teams and is the primary clinical partner for Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Medicine. Osler is accredited with Exemplary Standing by Accreditation Canada and recognized nationally for excellence in patient safety, including the CCHL Excellence in Patient Safety Award. Osler has also been named one of the Greater Toronto’s Top Employers.
William Osler Health System and Promeus Inc. are committed to building an intentionally inclusive environment that engages, supports, and empowers employment equity and diversity in the workplace and communities served. We welcome applications from women, racially visible individuals, people with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, and 2SLGBTQI+ persons.