Clinical Director Forensics

The Clinical Director leads interdisciplinary teams across secure inpatient units and community forensic services, ensuring alignment with CAMH’s mission, values, and strategic priorities, as well as provincial legislation and standards governing forensic mental health care. 

The Clinical Director works in a dyad with the Chief of the division to provide overall leadership for the program. 
Reporting to the Vice President, Clinical Operations, collaborates with the Professional Practice Office, Director, Clinical Quality, Physician Leaders, and other key organizational leaders, to enhance excellence in practice and professional standards, quality of care, efficient and effective fiscal resource management, safety and risk management, program planning, change management and service excellence and evaluation.  
 

The Clinical Director advances the concepts, infrastructures and relationships required for a programmatic focus. This work involves strong collaborations with leadership colleagues across CAMH, and  with partners in the health system for to develop and deliver programming that meets the needs of patients and families.  The 

Clinical Director is accountable for developing and implementing strategies that create a supportive environment to advance education and research. For example, this includes ensuring collaboration with clinical and research teams to support patients participation in clinical trials should they choose. It also includes ensuring that clinical students/trainees are effectively onboarded and supported during their clinical placements in collaboration with the CAMH Student Centre. 

Clinical Directors are responsible for the financial management across the portfolio of programs, from both an operational and strategic perspective, creatively using strategies to direct resources to where they are needed.

The Clinical Director supports the achievement of the goals of an academic health science centre as it relates to education and research. This includes supporting and assisting education and clinical research leads in navigating access to programs and teams to support their efforts. For clinical research, it includes supporting managers and staff to ensure participation in research opportunities is available to patients.

The Clinical Director is a member of the Clinical Leadership Team of the hospital, organizes/chairs leadership forums within the programs and also participates actively in other committees/forums related to corporate strategy and operations.