Clinical Director - Forensics

The Clinical Director leads interdisciplinary teams across secure inpatient units and community forensic services, ensuring alignment with CAMH’s mission, values, and strategic priorities, as well as provincial legislation and standards governing forensic mental health care. The Clinical Director works in a dyad with the Chief of the division to provide overall leadership for the program. Reporting to the Vice President, Clinical Operations, collaborates with the Professional Practice Office, Director, Clinical Quality, Physician Leaders, and other key organizational leaders, to enhance excellence in practice and professional standards, quality of care, efficient and effective fiscal resource management, safety and risk management, program planning, change management and service excellence and evaluation. The Clinical Director advances the concepts, infrastructures and relationships required for a programmatic focus. This work involves strong collaborations with leadership colleagues across CAMH, and with partners in the health system for to develop and deliver programming that meets the needs of patients and families. The Clinical Director is accountable for developing and implementing strategies that create a supportive environment to advance education and research. For example, this includes ensuring collaboration with clinical and research teams to support patients participation in clinical trials should they choose. It also includes ensuring that clinical students/trainees are effectively onboarded and supported during their clinical placements in collaboration with the CAMH Student Centre. Clinical Directors are responsible for the financial management across the portfolio of programs, from both an operational and strategic perspective, creatively using strategies to direct resources to where they are needed. The Clinical Director supports the achievement of the goals of an academic health science centre as it relates to education and research. This includes supporting and assisting education and clinical research leads in navigating access to programs and teams to support their efforts. For clinical research, it includes supporting managers and staff to ensure participation in research opportunities is available to patients. The Clinical Director is a member of the Clinical Leadership Team of the hospital, organizes/chairs leadership forums within the programs and also participates actively in other committees/forums related to corporate strategy and operations. Through its core values of Courage, Respect and Excellence, CAMH is implementing its Strategic Plan: Connected CAMH, to transform lives, ignite innovation and discovery, revolutionize education and drive social change. CAMH is more than a hospital, it is a cause. CAMH is on a mission to change the way society thinks about and responds to mental illness. They aim to eliminate prejudice and discrimination and shape a world where mental illness is central to our healthcare system – a world where Mental Health is Health. To learn more about CAMH, please visit their website at: www.camh.ca. To view our Land Acknowledgment, please click here.

The Clinical Director provides strategic and operational leadership for forensic mental health services, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, recovery-oriented care. They collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and organizational leaders to manage fiscal resources, safety, and research initiatives within the program.

Candidates must hold a Master’s degree in a clinical, healthcare, or social services discipline and possess at least 5 years of progressive clinical managerial experience. Registration as a regulated healthcare professional and a strong understanding of forensic mental health systems are required.

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• Strategic leadership
• Clinical management
• Forensic mental health
• Change management
• Financial management
• Stakeholder engagement
• Risk management
• Quality improvement
• Program planning
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Evidence-based care
• Trauma-informed care
• Recovery-oriented care
• Communication skills
• Negotiation
• Microsoft Office
• Courage
• Corporate Strategy
• Clinical Leadership
• Organizational Leadership
• Strategic Prioritization
• Planning
• Research
• Mental Health
• Strategic Planning
• Certified Associate In Materials Handling
• Change Management
• Clinical Research
• Clinical Trials
• Financial Management
• Leadership
• Health Sciences
• Innovation
• Leadership Studies
• Risk Management
• Mental Diseases
• Operations
• Resource Management
• Social Change

• Healthcare
• Management & Leadership
• Social Services
• Science & Research
• Government & Public Sector
• Director of Forensics
• Clinical Director
• Health Service Managers
• Medical and Health Services Managers

Formation minimale

Maîtrise

Expérience minimale

5+ ans

Postuler avant le

31 août 2026

Langue de l’offre

anglais

Heures de travail

40 heures par semaine