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About the Role

The Senior Advisor, Clinical Cardiac is a key senior member of the clinical portfolio, providing expert clinical leadership to advance the mandate and long-term strategy of the Cardiac Program. The role leads and supports high-impact initiatives, consultations, and partnerships that strengthen clinical best practice, evidence-based care, and system-level planning across Ontario’s cardiac system.

Responsibilities

Provide senior clinical leadership and subject matter expertise in cardiac care, planning, leading, and executing complex projects, policies, initiatives, and consultations that advance evidence-based best practices.
Serve as a trusted clinical advisor, providing expert guidance on cardiac care, clinical best practices, and health literacy across Ontario Health.
Lead the development, dissemination, and implementation of clinical resources, quality standards, policies, guidelines, and educational materials, ensuring they are evidence-based, equitable, inclusive, and accessible.
Provide coaching, mentorship, and education to colleagues and clinical partners, building internal capacity through workshops, knowledge exchange, and practical tools and resources.
Proactively identify emerging issues, risks, and opportunities, developing mitigation strategies and innovative solutions to support program objectives.
Serve as an expert resource in evidence synthesis, literature review, guideline appraisal, and interpretation of clinical evidence related to cardiac conditions.
Apply rigorous methodologies and appraisal tools to assess evidence and evaluate the quality, effectiveness, and implementation of clinical resources and initiatives.
Conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses to identify system-level trends, gaps, barriers, and opportunities for improvement.
Identify barriers to the adoption of cardiac best practices across Ontario and develop strategies to support uptake, implementation, and sustainability.
Identify opportunities to improve operational workflows, efficiency, quality, and consistency in the delivery of cardiac care.
Build and maintain strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including the Ministry of Health, Clinical Leads, hospital administrators, patient and family advisors, Ontario Health programs, committees, and healthcare partners.
Lead consultations and engagement activities to understand stakeholder needs, identify priorities, and incorporate clinical, patient, caregiver, and system perspectives into program initiatives.
Facilitate committees, working groups, and expert consultations, effectively managing expectations, communications, competing priorities, and deliverables.
Collaborate across Ontario Health to ensure cardiac initiatives are aligned with broader organizational strategies, policies, and system priorities.
Demonstrate collaborative leadership and integrity while building consensus and supporting effective decision-making across diverse stakeholder groups.
Lead knowledge translation and exchange activities within Ontario Health and across the broader healthcare system to support adoption of clinical best practices.
Develop innovative approaches to sharing clinical information and resources, including digital tools, online resources, webinars, infographics, and other accessible formats.
Develop and maintain toolkits, education resources, and guidance materials to support teams in creating high-quality, patient-centred cardiac care resources.
Coordinate resources and activities to ensure projects and initiatives are delivered on time, on target, and aligned with program objectives.
Share knowledge across teams and programs through clear written and verbal communication, ensuring work is coordinated and supports broader provincial priorities.

Requirements

Registered Nurse or registered clinician with a Master’s Degree in Nursing, health policy, health sciences, health administration, health information, education, or a related field of study
Minimum of 8 years of clinical experience in cardiac care/ conditions
Minimum of 5 years of experience implementing healthcare projects
Strong knowledge of project management
Extensive experience leading stakeholder engagement with patients/families, clinicians, hospital administrators and/or pan-Canadian health system and education partners, including ability to facilitate meetings with internal/external stakeholders and consensus building.
Extensive experience in stakeholder (including clinician, hospital administration, patient and family advisors) consultation, negotiation and/or mediation
Recognized as a clinical expert and leader in cardiac conditions to foster strong respectful clinical relationships with stakeholders, staff, and senior leadership in the field
Experience working a high-stress, fast paced, collaborative environment
A strong understanding of Ontario’s health care system, including gaps between actual and ideal care, reasons for these gaps, and potential mechanisms available to address them
A strong understanding of how research, data and clinical best practices can be incorporated into the evaluation of the health care system
A strong understanding of health literacy, healthy equity and social determinants of health, and how these intersect to impact health outcomes in people with cardiac conditions in Ontario
Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to clearly and concisely articulate key messages that resonate with different stakeholders and audiences, effectively facilitate a group of stakeholders (including patients, clinicians), create and deliver effective presentations, and prepare resources, briefing notes and reports.
Excellent ability to persuade, negotiate and mediate with internal and external stakeholders (e.g. clinicians, pan-Canadian stakeholders) and resolve conflicts
Strong problem solving, critical/analytical thinking and decision-making skills. Anticipates and proactively identifies solutions and provides well-articulated recommendations to key decision makers.
Experience identifying contentious issues, urgency and need for escalation, as well as participation and execution of mitigating solutions.
Superior attention to detail, organization, and time management skills, with ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects.
Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills, with demonstrated experience engaging and building relationships and consensus among diverse stakeholders.
Demonstrated initiative and independence to take appropriate action and anticipate organizational needs
Ability to seek and weigh opinions and evidence, compromising where necessary on ways and means but not on principles or goals
Ability to deal effectively with colleagues, stakeholders, and the public from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical/clinical experience
Ability to complete tasks, as assigned, in a timely manner with high-quality results
Ability to ensure completed work outputs meet key program objectives, and adhere to standards, protocols and guidelines
Excellent attention to detail.

Skills

Clinical Expertise
Evidence Synthesis
Literature Review
Guideline Appraisal
Quantitative Analysis
Qualitative Analysis
Stakeholder Engagement
Collaboration
Knowledge Translation
Project Management
Communication
Persuasion
Negotiation
Mediation
Problem Solving
Critical Thinking
Analytical Thinking
Decision Making
Attention to Detail
Organization
Time Management
Interpersonal Skills
Relationship Building
Initiative
Independence

Location

Ontario
In-office work model, requiring employees to work from a designated, approved Ontario Health location.

Work Type

Permanent Full time

Experience Level

Senior
Minimum of 8 years of clinical experience in cardiac care/ conditions
Minimum of 5 years of experience implementing healthcare projects

Education Level

Master’s Degree in Nursing, health policy, health sciences, health administration, health information, education, or a related field of study

Salary/Compensations

Band 7

Benefits

Comprehensive health coverage from day one, with fully paid medical, dental, and vision benefits
Flexible health care or wellness spending accounts
A 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.
How we work together is reflected through our five values: 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.