Are you a Registered Nurse looking to lead with purpose in a dynamic and secure healthcare environment? As an RN Supervisor, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering high-quality medical and nursing services within the Central North Correctional Centre. This leadership position offers the opportunity to coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage complex healthcare programs, and ensure the safety and well-being of both inmates and staff. You'll oversee everything from pharmacy operations and specialized treatments to health education initiatives, all while maintaining compliance with professional standards and legislation.
This is more than just a supervisory role—it's a chance to influence systemic healthcare delivery and drive meaningful change. You'll be responsible for strategic planning, staff development, and operational oversight, with the autonomy to identify service improvements and implement innovative solutions. If you're passionate about healthcare leadership, thrive in high-responsibility environments, and want to make a lasting impact, this role offers a unique and rewarding career path. Join a team that values professionalism, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Please note: As this is a frontline essential position, your physical presence at the office is crucial to this role and this position will be fully onsite and includes ‘on-call' responsibilities.
About the job
Leadership in the Ontario Public Service
A leadership career in the Ontario Public Service offers meaningful opportunities to lead impactful projects, collaborate with diverse teams, and shape policies, programs and services that positively influence the lives of millions of Ontarians, all within a supportive and inclusive work environment. Our leaders enjoy comprehensive benefit plans, a robust pension program, and challenging and rewarding work that will keep you motivated and fulfilled.
What can I expect to do in this role?
Create the Work Environment
In the Ontario Public Service, we hold our leaders to the highest standards, expecting them to embody authenticity, accountability, and courage in every action and decision. It will be your responsibility to create a work environment and team culture that ignites innovation, nurtures collaboration and champions inclusivity by creating a diverse, anti-racist and accessible workplace that is free from discrimination and harassment. By aligning your choices with these values, you will create a vibrant work environment where every individual can thrive.
Deliver on Business Goals and Priorities
Your leadership will be crucial in guiding the team towards the achievement of their business goals. It will be your responsibility to inspire and motivate your team to deliver their best performance and align the team's daily actions with the strategic vision of the ministry. As an RN Supervisor, you will:
- Supervise the provision of health care services for the institution on an assigned shift by ensuring the efficient and effective operation of the institution's health care services centre.
- Ensure a safe environment for both patients and staff through the effective delivery of healthcare programs and services.
- Assist in the development and implementation of health care policies, practices, and procedures; provide professional direction to subordinate staff; and act as the Manager, Health Care Services as required.
- Manage the pharmacy program, including ordering, reconciling, and distributing, and ensures the maintenance and security of all medications.
- Maintain records and statistics to identify trends and developments that have critical program/service delivery implications and develop recommendations for mitigation.
- Review and process Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for patients' medical information.
What you bring to the team
Mandatory
- You are a Registered Nurse (RN) in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario.
Leadership and Management Skills:
- You can supervise, plan, and coordinate the daily operations of a health-care team by setting and communicating standards and priorities, scheduling, assigning, and reviewing work, evaluating performance, and identifying and escalating performance issues.
- You have leadership skills to provide direction, coaching, and mentoring to a team of Nurses.
- You have knowledge of financial and human resource management to manage an allocated budget and reports on financial activities, and to participate in recruitment, training, and employee relations matters.
- You can ensure professional standards are met by developing, maintaining, and evaluating procedures and methods for delivery of health services, recommending improvements as needed.
Specialized Knowledge:
- You have knowledge of nursing administration, health care programs and operations.
- You have knowledge of health care professional regulatory bodies, practices, and standards to ensure compliance and can interpret relevant legislation (e.g., Regulated Health Care Professions Act, Health Care Consent Act, Mental Health Act).
- You can acquire knowledge of correctional philosophies, policies and procedures relating to health care services in a security-based adult correctional institution.
- You have a general level of understanding about emergency response procedures.
Relationship Management and Communication Skills
- You have interpersonal and communication skills to respond to service delivery issues with inmates and their families, community agencies and organizations.
- You demonstrate the ability to exchange information and provide advice on offender needs to medical practitioners, and to discuss medical issues with offender family members.
- You can liaise effectively with community partners such as Mental Health centres, Public Health departments, private physicians/specialists, hospitals.
Evaluation and Analytical Skills
- You can maintain records and statistics to identify trends that have critical health care service delivery, policy and planning implications.
- You can evaluate and ensure consistency of professional standards and procedures of health care are provided and maintained.
- You can assess risks and make sound decisions surrounding continued health care and treatment needs.
Don't meet every qualification?
If you are excited about this position and meet most, but not all, of the listed qualifications, please still consider applying. We recognize that no one person might have every qualification in this job ad, and you just might be the right candidate!
How we support diversity, inclusion and accessibility
The Ontario Public Service (OPS) is an innovative, responsive and accountable public service that works hard to be diverse, anti-racist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable. Diversifying leadership is a top priority for the OPS. Our goal is to achieve parity with the Ontario labour force by 2025 for the most under-represented groups (Indigenous, racialized and persons with disabilities) on our leadership teams.
The OPS invites all interested individuals to apply. As an organization that promotes equity and diversity, the OPS encourages applications from Indigenous, Black, racialized individuals, and persons with disabilities.
The OPS is an accessible employer and we offer accommodation in all aspects of employment, including the recruitment process.
Visit the
OPS Anti-Racism Policy, the
OPS Diversity and Inclusion Blueprint, and the
Multi-Year Accessibility Plan to learn more about the OPS commitment to advancing racial equity, accessibility, diversity and inclusion in the public service.