Step into a role where every day brings meaningful impact. As an Assistant Health Care Manager, you'll help lead a multidisciplinary team in a dynamic correctional health environment that combines healthcare leadership, operational oversight, and clinical decision-making. This role is ideally suited to a Registered Nurse with strong acute care and leadership experience who is comfortable making sound decisions in complex and evolving situations. With expanding responsibilities in labour relations, staffing, budgeting, and HR functions, you'll help guide a healthcare team through significant change while ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality patient care. Working in a correctional health setting requires adaptability, clinical judgment, and the ability to respond confidently to diverse patient needs where no two situations are ever quite the same.
This is an excellent opportunity for a people-centered leader who thrives in a supportive, mentoring capacity while remaining confident in making independent operational and clinical decisions. You'll provide day-to-day managerial guidance, foster an inclusive and respectful workplace, and support a team delivering care to a patient population with varying levels of medical complexity. Strong organizational skills, sound clinical judgment, proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, and a collaborative leadership style will help you excel as you coordinate operations, manage staffing resources, and contribute to a high-performing healthcare team.
Leadership That Makes a Difference
At its core, leadership in the Ontario Public Service (OPS) is about creating positive change for people and communities across Ontario. We're looking for leaders who are authentic, accountable, and courageous. People who bring others together, ask bold questions, and lead with purpose.
We believe great leadership starts with high standards and strong support. In the OPS, that means showing up with authenticity, acting with integrity, and having the courage to do what's right, even when it's hard.
As a leader, you'll shape a team culture that sparks innovation, supports collaboration, and champions inclusion. You'll help build a workplace that is diverse, anti-racist, and accessible, where everyone feels safe, respected, and able to thrive.
You won't be doing it alone. We invest in our leaders through mentorship, learning opportunities, and cross-ministry networks that help you grow your impact and connect with peers across the organization.
Leadership is about impact, and in this role, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful one. You will:
- Lead daily health service operations by coordinating nursing, medical, and allied health activities while supporting clinical decision-making and ensuring high-quality patient care within a secure correctional environment.
- Support clinical leadership and patient care delivery by providing guidance on complex patient situations, assessing risks, and helping staff respond effectively to changing healthcare needs.
- Provide supportive, people centered leadership through mentoring, coaching, and ensuring staff feel capable, equipped, and confident in their roles.
- Manage HR, labour relations, staffing, and workforce planning functions including scheduling, performance management, attendance support, training needs, and adherence to collective agreements.
- Oversee quality and safety standards by monitoring trends, evaluating service delivery, and ensuring compliance with legislation, policies, and professional practice requirements.
- Coordinate financial, operational, and clinical resources including budgeting activities, pharmacy operations, diagnostic providers, professional fee-for-service contracts, and staffing resources to support effective healthcare delivery.
- Maintain secure and efficient operations by ensuring proper handling of medications, records, equipment, and participating in risk management and problem solving activities.
Your ability to align your team's efforts with broader organizational goals will be key to your success, and to the success of the people we serve.
Meet Your New Team
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Ontario Correctional Institute (OCI) is a provincial, medium-security treatment centre located in Brampton, Ontario, dedicated to delivering intensive, evidence-based rehabilitation programs for adult male offenders. Recognized for its therapeutic focus, OCI provides specialized treatment addressing substance use, sexual misconduct, impulse control, anger management, and other behavioural needs, supported by a team of skilled clinical professionals. With approximately 220–228 beds across multiple treatment units, the facility serves individuals serving sentences of less than two years and plays a critical role in reducing recidivism by targeting the root causes of offending behaviour. Healthcare staff at OCI support patients with diverse and complex healthcare needs in a fast-paced environment that requires strong clinical judgment, independent decision-making, collaboration, and adaptability. Operating under the Ministry of the Solicitor General, OCI emphasizes personal growth, accountability, and successful reintegration, contributing to a safer and healthier Ontario.
You are currently registered as a Registered Nurse in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario.
- Provide day-to-day operational and healthcare leadership in a fast-paced clinical environment serving patients with diverse and complex healthcare needs.
- Mentor and support staff by fostering confidence, professional growth, and an inclusive team environment.
- Manage HR, staffing, scheduling, labour relations, and workforce planning activities to ensure safe and effective service delivery.
- Lead change and continuous improvement by modeling OPS values and advancing quality focused initiatives.
- Participate in budgeting, resource allocation, and operational planning to support healthcare program delivery and organizational priorities.
- Apply advanced clinical knowledge gained through correctional, acute care, hospital, or similarly complex healthcare environments to support high-quality patient care.
- Ensure adherence to professional standards including CNO practice guidelines and relevant legislation.
- Support safe clinical decision-making by assessing risks, providing clinical leadership, and responding effectively to patients with changing or acute healthcare needs.
- Promote quality patient care by monitoring trends, identifying risks, and guiding evidence based practices.
- Demonstrate strong critical thinking, clinical judgment, and the ability to make timely decisions in complex and rapidly changing healthcare situations.
- Use Microsoft 365 applications confidently including Teams, Outlook, and basic Excel for daily operations.
- Maintain secure documentation systems including electronic health records and medication management tools.
- Understand health related legislation and policy frameworks that inform correctional health operations.
- Apply organizational and administrative systems to manage resources, scheduling, and reporting.
- Communicate effectively with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate care and resolve issues collaboratively.
- Provide clear direction and coaching to staff to ensure expectations, priorities, and standards are understood.
- Liaise professionally with external partners including community providers, legal representatives, and oversight bodies.
- Prepare and share accurate reports and documentation to support operational decision making and accountability.
If you are excited about this position and meet most, but not all, of the listed qualifications, please still consider applying. We recognize that no one person might have every qualification in this job ad, and you just might be the right candidate!
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We are building an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage everyone interested in working with us to apply, including people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black and racialized individuals, as well as people from all ethnicities, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.
Our hiring process is accessible, consistent with Ontario's
Human Rights Code and the
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005. We are working to prevent and remove barriers in our hiring processes and can offer accommodation to address specific needs related to Code-protected grounds such as disability, family status and religion. For more information about accommodation during the hiring process please contact us.
Learn more about the work the OPS is doing to create an inclusive, anti-racist, accessible and diverse workplace:
- diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
- accessibility
- Anti-Racism Policy
