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About the Role

Ontario Health is seeking an innovative, values-driven, and community-oriented health-system leader to serve as Vice President, Integrated Mental Health, Addictions and Community Care (IMHACC). This role will provide strategic and operational leadership to advance mental health and addictions and community care across Ontario, working in close partnership with provincial, regional, and local leaders.

Responsibilities

• Set and advance a bold provincial vision for the Mental Health and Addictions Centre of Excellence, palliative care, and community paramedicine.
• Design and execute strategies to accelerate integration, transformation, quality, and equity across Ontario’s mental health and addiction and community care system.
• Translate emerging trends, community needs, evidence, and government priorities into practical policies, programs, and models of care.
• Connect the work of the portfolio to Ontario Health’s mandate, clinical programs, regional priorities, and corporate strategies.
• Identify and act on opportunities to improve access, coordination, patient experience, and outcomes across the continuum of care.
• Utilize research, data, lived experience, leading practices, and jurisdictional benchmarking to challenge assumptions and strengthen decision-making.
• Build a deep understanding of populations, service environments, challenges, and opportunities across Ontario’s diverse regions.
• Engage directly with regional leaders, local providers, community organizations, patients, families, and people with lived and living experience.
• Ensure provincial strategies reflect local realities and can be adapted to the distinct needs of different communities.
• Advance co-design and collaborative planning involving clinical, community, social service, and patient perspectives.
• Strengthen relationships with Indigenous, Francophone, rural, remote, and equity-deserving communities.
• Maintain a visible presence across the province and create opportunities to listen, learn, and respond.
• Build trusted relationships with government, health service providers, clinical leaders, social service organizations, researchers, and community agencies.
• Represent Ontario Health in senior-level discussions with the Ministry of Health and other provincial, regional, and system partners.
• Bring diverse interests together and move complex discussions toward shared decisions and action.
• Create governance and engagement models that strengthen collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
• Break down sector boundaries and advance solutions addressing social, cultural, and economic factors affecting mental health and addictions.
• Lead the operations, programs, resources, and annual business planning of the MHA COE, palliative care, and community paramedicine programs.
• Convert strategy into focused priorities, clear deliverables, defined accountabilities, and measurable results.
• Establish performance measures demonstrating impact for patients, providers, communities, regions, and the broader provincial system.
• Drive the design, implementation, and evaluation of quality-improvement and system-transformation initiatives.
• Anticipate strategic and operational risks and act early to mitigate them.
• Direct operating and program budgets with a focus on sustainability, value, and responsible stewardship.
• Ensure programs and operations meet legislative, policy, accountability, and quality requirements.
• Inspire and develop a multidisciplinary team of clinical, operational, policy, and program professionals.
• Create an inclusive, collaborative, and high-energy environment grounded in Ontario Health’s values.
• Attract, develop, and retain exceptional talent while strengthening leadership capacity across the organization.
• Set clear expectations, remove barriers, and hold leaders and teams accountable for results.
• Encourage innovation, thoughtful risk-taking, continuous learning, and open dialogue.
• Lead with integrity, humility, courage, empathy, and a strong commitment to public service.
• Advance employee well-being, engagement, succession planning, and professional development.

Requirements

• A master’s degree in health administration, business administration, public administration, public health, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A health professional designation or significant professional experience within the healthcare system is strongly preferred.
• At least 10 years of progressive senior leadership experience within healthcare, mental health and addictions, social services, government, or another complex public-sector environment.
• At least eight years of experience leading teams, developing leaders, and managing organizational performance.
• Demonstrated experience leading provincial, regional, or large-scale health-system strategy, operations, program delivery, or transformation.
• A strong understanding of Ontario’s healthcare system, regional structures, and community-based models of care.
• Experience working directly with healthcare providers, regional partners, community organizations, and people with lived experience.
• Knowledge of the mental health and addictions sector and community sector is strongly preferred.
• Experience working with government and navigating complex public-policy and accountability environments.
• All applicants must be a resident of Ontario to be considered for roles at Ontario Health.

Skills

• Innovative
• Energetic
• Values-driven
• Community-oriented
• Regionally informed
• Collaborative
• Outcome-focused
• People-centered

Location

• Ontario

Work Type

• Permanent Full time

Experience Level

• Senior leadership
• 10+ years progressive senior leadership experience
• 8+ years experience leading teams

Education Level

• Master's degree in health administration, business administration, public administration, public health or a related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Salary/Compensations

• Band 10

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage from day one, with fully paid medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Flexible health care or wellness spending accounts
• Inclusive program to support overall well-being
• Premium defined benefit pension plan
• Competitive vacation entitlement
• Three personal days and two float days annually
• Ongoing learning and career development opportunities

About the Company

• At Ontario Health, we are committed to developing a strong organizational culture that connects and inspires all team members across the province.
• Our vision is that together, we will be a leader in health and wellness for all.
• Our mission is to connect the health system to drive improved and equitable health outcomes, experiences and value.
• Our values are: integrity, inspiration, tenacity, humility and care.

Equal Opportunity

• Ontario Health encourages applications from candidates who are First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and urban Indigenous; Francophone; members of Black and racialized groups; 2SLGBTQIA+ communities; trans and nonbinary individuals; and people living with disabilities.
• Ontario Health is an accessible employer, and we offer accommodation in all aspects of employment, including the recruitment process. If you require a disability related accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process, please email careers@ontariohealth.ca and a member of the team will connect with you within 48 hours.