About This Role
This full-time Clinical Manager position at Niagara Health involves driving effective operations and fostering community and academic partnerships to improve transitions of care for patients. The role provides strategic and operational leadership across a multi-site hospital organization, overseeing student placement operations, educational partnerships, and policy administration within the Professional Practice Program leadership team.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic, operational, and professional leadership to the Clinical Nutrition and Central Diet Office teams, including recruitment, onboarding, scheduling, workload management, performance management, and staff development
- Ensure the delivery of safe, evidence-based, patient-centred nutrition care through oversight of clinical practice standards, documentation, quality improvement initiatives, patient safety, clinical outcomes, and regulatory compliance
- Lead and support interprofessional collaboration with clinical, operational, and community partners to promote integrated care, continuity of care, and effective nutrition-related transitions
- Oversee the operations of Clinical Nutrition and the Central Diet Office, including workflow, staffing, diet order management, nutrition systems, service utilization, performance metrics, and operational planning
- Manage departmental resources, budgets, supplies, business planning, and nutrition-related policies, procedures, protocols, and clinical tools to support efficient service delivery
- Partner with Food Services, Information Technology, and other departments to support therapeutic diets, nutrition information systems, data reporting, process improvement, food safety, and patient meal services
- Lead education, competency development, student placements, knowledge translation, and communication initiatives within the nutrition team
- Lead team responsible for student placement programs and organizational learner resources
- Oversee student placements, affiliation agreements, onboarding, capacity, and academic partnerships
- Ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements
Important Details
- Schedule: 75 hours per pay period
- Application deadline: 21 October 2026
About the Company
Niagara Health is a regional hospital system with multiple sites and a growing network of community-based services, committed to transforming hospital care in Niagara.
