Union: Non-Union
Number of vacancies: 1
New or Replacement Position: Replacement
Site: Multiple UHN Sites
Department: Collaborative Academic Practice
Reports to: Director, Professional Practice
Salary range: $91,358 - $114,183
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Status: Permanent Full-Time
Closing Date: March 13, 2026
Position Summary:
The UHN Collaborative Academic Practice department is recruiting an experienced Discipline Head lead to support and enable academic practice at UHN.
The Discipline Head – Respiratory Therapy, is the point of contact for practice for respiratory therapy. This role represents the professions at the Professional Advisory Committee, other UHN committees and working groups as required. As well, the Discipline Head ensures any current or new regulatory standards are implemented and works with the team to set standards for the profession. This Discipline Head, Respiratory Therapy supports academic practice.
Duties
- Design, develop, implement, and communicate profession standards and competencies to support profession-specific practice and documentation, in keeping with best practice, legislated and professional requirements as well as UHN‘s mission and goals
- Implement quality indicators and monitoring
- Support the profession to work to full scope and where appropriate advanced scope of practice
- Develop and Influences respiratory therapy related policy and practice
- The ideal candidate is an strong clinician with demonstrated ability to transform and engage the team
- Creating opportunities to build research and education capacity
- Facilitate, participate or lead quality improvement and evidence-based research related practice to improve patient care outcomes
- Establish and maintain collaborative partnerships with stakeholders across education, research, and clinical practice
- Lead to ensure the profession meets its commitments for clinical education of learners within the context of practice and care at UHN
- Consult on care delivery model
- Lead practice orientation processes and develop and implement notice to expert framework to as well as enabling ongoing professional development
- Support UHN Strategic Goals related to respiratory therapy practice