VP, Integrated Mental Health, Addictions & Community Care - Ontario Health, Toronto

The Opportunity

Ontario Health is seeking an innovative, values-driven, and community-oriented health-system leader for the Vice President, Integrated Mental Health, Addictions and Community Care (IMHACC) role in Toronto. This is a significant opportunity to provide strategic and operational leadership, working with provincial, regional, and local leaders to advance mental health and addictions and community care across Ontario. The successful candidate will bring a strong commitment to improving health outcomes for patients, families, and diverse communities. You will understand that effective provincial leadership must be informed by local realities, actively engaging communities, providers, and partners in program design and delivery. Translating provincial priorities into meaningful regional and community-level impact is critical, developing responsive, sustainable, and evidence-informed solutions for urban, rural, remote, northern, Indigenous, and equity-deserving communities. The mandate involves setting the strategic direction for the Mental Health and Addictions Centre of Excellence, building capacity, and improving access, quality, equity, and patient experience across complex provincial programs. This role connects provincial priorities with regional needs, ensuring Ontario’s diverse communities help shape how mental health and addictions care is planned and delivered, mobilizing partners across healthcare, social services, and government.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

As Vice President, you will be instrumental in driving the strategic direction and operational excellence of integrated mental health, addictions, and community care initiatives across the province. Your day-to-day responsibilities will encompass a broad spectrum of leadership, from system transformation to fostering a vibrant organizational culture, all aimed at enhancing the health and well-being of Ontario's communities.

• Drive Provincial Strategy and System Transformation:
• Set and advance a bold provincial vision for the Mental Health and Addictions Centre of Excellence, as well as palliative care and community paramedicine.
• Design and execute strategies that accelerate integration, transformation, quality and equity across Ontario’s mental health and addiction and community care system.
• Turn 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.
• Use research, data, lived experience, leading practices and jurisdictional benchmarking to challenge assumptions and strengthen decision-making.
• Champion Regional and Community Priorities:
• Build a deep understanding of the 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 that brings together 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 meaningful opportunities to listen, learn and respond.
• Mobilize Partners and Stakeholders:
• 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 that address the social, cultural and economic factors affecting mental health and addictions.
• Deliver Operational, Quality and Financial Results:
• Lead the operations, programs, resources and annual business planning of the MHA COE as well and palliative care and community paramedicine programs.
• Convert strategy into focused priorities, clear deliverables, defined accountabilities and measurable results.
• Establish performance measures that demonstrate 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 strong focus on sustainability, value and responsible stewardship.
• Ensure programs and operations meet legislative, policy, accountability and quality requirements.
• Inspire People and Shape Culture:
• 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

To excel in this Vice President role, candidates must possess a robust blend of advanced education, extensive senior leadership experience within the healthcare sector, and a deep understanding of Ontario's health system. A proven track record in leading large-scale strategy and transformation initiatives, coupled with a community-oriented approach, is essential.

• Qualifications and Experience:
• 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.
• Leadership Profile:
• Innovative: Challenges traditional approaches and turns new ideas into practical, scalable solutions.
• Energetic: Brings momentum, optimism and a strong sense of purpose to complex system challenges.
• Values-driven: Leads with integrity, compassion, equity, accountability and respect.
• Community-oriented: Listens to communities and ensures their experiences shape provincial priorities.
• Regionally informed: Understands that communities differ and avoids a one-size-fits-all approach.
• Collaborative: Builds trust and creates shared ownership across organizational and sector boundaries.
• Outcome-focused: Connects strategy and activity to measurable improvements in care and experience.
• People-centered: Creates conditions in which employees, partners, patients and communities can contribute and thrive.