Associate Professor or Full Professor - Chief, Integrated Community Program

Date Posted: 04/09/2025
Closing Date: 05/14/2025, 11:59PM ET
Req ID: 42462
Job Category: Faculty - Clinical
Faculty/Division: Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Department: Dept of Medicine
Hospital Affiliation: Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Description:

We are looking for someone to lead the development of a healthcare system for our North Toronto community.

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, in Toronto, Canada, a fully affiliated academic Health Sciences facility of the University of Toronto, is inviting applications for its new Chief, Integrated Community Program (ICP). This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who is motivated by change, sets visionary goals, and achieves success by partnering with others. As the ideal candidate, you have a reputation for being a health system leader who is creative in your approach to problem solving and is willing to challenge ‘the way we’ve always done it’ to do something new. You have a deep understanding of community-based care, you personify collaboration, and you are a skilled relationship builder who works exceptionally well with all stakeholders. If this sounds like you, we would like to meet you!

Sunnybrook’s Strategic Plan emphasizes the essential role the hospital plays, not only through its tertiary regional and provincial programs, but also by supporting the needs of those who live in North Toronto. Sunnybrook’s community footprint is growing, through outreach and strategic partnerships with agencies and care providers in North Toronto, and in collaboration with our Primary Care Network.

The Program Chief, Integrated Community Program will help to create the medical model for truly integrated care which supports people remaining healthy in our community, and allows for seamless access to specialized services when and where they are needed.

Sunnybrook has recently undergone an integration with Vibrant Community Health, creating a unique model where a hospital and a community health centre are jointly creating a health hub for North Toronto that will advance attachment to interprofessional, academic family medicine for our community. The Cipriano Centre for Seniors Health, which will open in the fall of 2025, will serve as a hub for the delivery of specialized geriatric care both at the hospital and in our community.

About the Program

Sunnybrook’s Integrated Community Program encompasses a range of inpatient and outpatient services, with internal accountability to support strategic visioning for the program. The Integrated Community program includes Family and Community Medicine, Specialized Geriatric Services, General Internal Medicine and several medical subspecialties, Acute Care Surgery, Dentistry and Nephrology and Dialysis. It also provides oversight for post-acute care, whether in settings such as our Pine Villa or our Reactivation Care Centre transitional care units, or at home through our Sunybrook-2-Home program. By breaking down silos between hospital and home, we will provide ‘wrap around’ care for patients to ensure consistency in quality and access to services across the system of care.  In collaboration with our clinical programs and our community and philanthropic partners, the Chief will play a lead role in creating the medical model for truly seamless care. 

What will success in this role look like?

Sunnybrook’s vision is to invent the future of healthcare. This includes building a health system around the needs of more than 1.1 million patients who come through our doors each year, as well as extending our reach deep into our community. In this role, the successful candidate will build partnerships with care providers and agencies in the community we serve to support a truly integrated system for the delivery of care, which is less hospital-centered. The Chief will provide institutional leadership on issues related to the Integrated Community Program and, in partnership with the clinical, operational and executive leadership, help to create and support effective and efficient models of care.

Qualifications

The successful candidate may be a physician or a regulated health professional. Candidates must be eligible to hold a clinical full time academic appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Full Professor at the University of Toronto.

To apply:

Estimated remuneration will be commensurate with academic rank, qualifications and experience. Applications will be accepted until May 14, 2025, or until the position is filled. The anticipated start date is July 1, 2025, but is negotiable with the preferred candidate. To explore this exciting opportunity, interested applicants may direct enquiries and submit their letter of interest, CV and the names and contact information of three referees in confidence to the address shown below.

Ms. Pooneh Baghai, Chair, Search Committee, C/O Ms. Rajni Sandhu, Secretary, Search Committee, Office of Medical Professional Practice, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Room DG 29, Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3M5 Canada.  Email:  rajni.sandhu@sunnybrook.ca

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As a premier academic health sciences centre, Sunnybrook is committed to high quality inter-professional education. It provides unique educational experiences for more than 4,000 trainees each year and is the home of one of the University’s four Academies for undergraduate medical education in addition to providing superb postgraduate and fellowship training in virtually all disciplines.

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and has internationally acclaimed programs in basic and applied research. SRI scientists work to understand and prevent disease, and to develop treatments that enhance and extend life. Each year, SRI conducts about $100 million in research developing innovations in care for more than 1.1 million patients.

For more information about Sunnybrook, please visit our website at www.sunnybrook.ca