EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Home: Heartwood, Long-term care home

Southbridge Care Homes owns and operates several long-term care and retirement homes throughout many urban and rural areas across Ontario.  

Since 1967, we’ve been building a foundation of innovation and success for operating long term care homes and retirement communities. We are redeveloping our communities so that we may continue to provide consistent, high-quality care for our residents now and in the future. 

Reporting to the Regional Director, the Executive Director assumes the ultimate responsibility for providing high quality care to all residents, while maintaining a safe and healthy environment for residents and staff.

The successful candidate will demonstrate flexibility, adaptability, and passion for senior care by delivering high-quality leadership support to our homes.

Responsibilities

• Providing overall leadership to ensure that residents goals and objectives are achieved.
• Management of all human, financial and physical resources for the various departments.
• Recruit team members and aid in their professional development by fostering an environment focused on knowledge sharing and skill building.
• Take part in the lives of the residents, their families’ and the local community to share the mission, vision and values of the residence.
• Collaborate in the budgeting process and manage the facility within the budget while overseeing the accounting operations for the residence.
  
  

Qualifications

• Hold a post-secondary degree (3-year program), or post-secondary diploma (2 year program) in health or social services.
• Administrator’s Certification (Minimum 100 hours of instruction time completed or enrolled*).
• “Ontario Fire Safety: Training for Owners/Operators” Course Certificate.
• At least 3 years of working experience in a managerial or supervisory capacity in the health or social services sector; or in another managerial or supervisory capacity, if the Long-Term Care Administrator Certificate has been successfully completed.
• Existing Administrators OLTCHA Provision.
• Persons working or employed as Administrators on July 1, 2010, who do not have the above required qualifications, and who have continued to work in that position may be hired as Administrators if they:
• Have worked or been employed for at least three years as a long-term care home Administrator, and,
• Have successfully completed a program in long-term care home administration or management or, subject to the requirements of the OLTCHA, are enrolled in a program in long-term care home administration or management that meets the requirements of the Act.
• Demonstrated effective leadership, communication (verbal and written) and comprehension skills.
• A passion and heart for helping those in the Retirement community.
• Excellent organizational, time management and multi-tasking skills.
• Customer-focused attitude, with an emphasis on building and maintaining relationships with clients.
• Ability to generate creative solutions and new approaches to daily challenges.
• Knowledge of Occupational Health and Safety practices, principles, and legislation.
• Sound knowledge of basic accounting principles and applicable legislation.
  
  

Southbridge’s mission is to operate a best-in-class portfolio of care homes and retirement communities that consistently deliver excellence in care and services in an economically sustainable manner.  

  

We would like to thank all applicants for your interest in working as part of our team! Only those applicants selected to move forward in the recruitment process will be contacted.  

Southbridge welcomes those applicants with disability related needs and those whom a need for accommodation in the recruitment process. Please provide notice of your need for accommodation to the hiring manager upon scheduling of an interview.  

  

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