The Ontario Emergency Medical Assistance Team (EMAT) was established to help safeguard the province’s health care system from the consequences of health emergencies, mass casualty events, and infectious disease outbreaks. EMAT is a program under the Ministry of Health’s Health System Emergency Management Branch and is operated by the Sunnybrook Centre for Prehospital Medicine, a division of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, a world leader in emergency, trauma, and prehospital medicine.
EMAT is an approximately 160-member team comprised of physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, paramedics, social workers, medical radiation technologists, logistics specialists, planning specialists and other professionals.
The Manager, Program Management and Readiness, Ontario Emergency Medical Assistance Team (EMAT), working collaboratively with the EMAT Incident Management Team (IMT), oversees an approximately 160 member multidisciplinary team of clinicians, logistics and planning experts, and incident command staff who deploy providing critical care, primary care, mental health, and support services (e.g. digital imaging) to the province of Ontario. Responsibilities include ensuring that all aspects of the program’s Performance Agreement with the Ministry of Health are met, leading after action reporting and process improvement strategies post-exercises and deployments, and budget oversight. The manager will also work in multidisciplinary teams that provide oversight of the EMAT equipment cache, development and delivery of educational and exercise programs, and ensure 24/7 readiness for the team.
- Ensures that designated contractual obligations between the hospital and assigned stakeholders are met, as well as compliance with regulations related to EMAT are met.
- Ensures that EMAT members are compliant with all relevant educational, regulatory, and organizational requirements to safely deploy as needed.
- Supervises coordination, administrative and contract staff as assigned.
- Leads the planning, monitoring and submission of budgets to the Ministry of Health (MOH), in collaboration with the Financial Analyst and IMT, with final review of the Senior Director.
- Develops and ensures implementation of policies and procedures, as well as human resource databases.
- Liaises with the MOH’s Health System Emergency Management Branch (HSEMB) as required to ensure awareness of EMAT activities and to share information as needed, as well as provides advisory support.
- Provides oversight and support for educational programs/workshops.
- Ensures EMAT readiness to achieve 24/7/365 availability and ability to meet MOH established deployment criteria.
- Leads key risk reduction processes and ensures proper response systems are in place with advice/support, where needed, by Sunnybrook Emergency Preparedness, IPAC, and the EMAT IMT.
- Participates on various Sunnybrook, local, and provincial groups and committees as assigned.
- Leads or oversees, in collaboration with the EMAT IMT, the development, implementation, exercising, evaluation, and ongoing improvement of hazard-specific response policies, plans, and procedures.
- Collaborates with Business Systems to ensure the operational readiness of EMAT’s equipment cache and infrastructure.
- Manages Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) activity during EMAT deployments, ensuring support is provided to deployed team during each operational period.
- Liaises with the MOH’s HSEMB to ensure deployment objectives are met and team concerns are addressed.
- Provides strategic oversight to EMAT IMT and deployed team, in collaboration with the Senior Director.
- Provides advisory support, in collaboration with the Senior Director and EMAT IMT, to HSEMB and health system partners during active deployments.
- Liaises with key stakeholders and EMAT IMT on collaborative programs and strategies, research, and mutual aid agreements.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent, Master’s degree preferred.
- Demonstrated management and leadership experience.
- Certification in Incident Management System (IMS) 100-300, or equivalent is an asset.
- Advanced courses in emergency management is an asset.
- A thorough understanding of the healthcare framework in Ontario;
- Ability to work in very active, stressful, fast-paced environments;
- Excellent relationship management, communications and organizational skills.
- Ability to adapt work schedule based on emergency need, if required.
