Community Medical Director, Edmonton Geriatric Psychiatry & Mental Healthcare
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- Medical Leader (non-clinical position)
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- MED0005HA Requisition #
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- About an hour ago Post Date
Job Summary:
Recovery Alberta invites applications for the role of Community Medical Director, Edmonton Geriatric Psychiatry & Mental Healthcare. This position is key for success to ensuring an integrated, accessible, and accountable health care system by providing medical leadership and oversight of all services provided through Geriatric Psychiatry and Mental Healthcare programs in the Edmonton area and focusing on collaborating within a provincially coordinated approach to optimizing access, quality, and sustainability.
This medical leadership role oversees:
• Community geriatric psychiatry and mental health clinics
• Hospitals with Recovery Alberta geriatric psychiatry inpatient beds and outpatient services
• Outreach and visiting psychiatry services withing the Edmonton area in collaboration with Recovery Alberta geriatric outpatient programs.
Physician leadership is central to driving high-performing, patient-centered health systems. This role combines clinical expertise with strategic and operational leadership, ensuring that medical decision-making, program priorities and organizational goals remain aligned. The successful candidate will foster collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement while supporting physician engagement and excellence in clinical practice.
This role involves:
• Supporting physician workforce planning, recruitment, retention, supervision, and performance management.
• Ensuring timely access to high-quality geriatric mental health assessment, treatment, consultation and follow up care.
• Leading multidisciplinary teams and promoting a culture of collaboration, safety, wellness, and accountability.
• Monitoring clinical quality, patient safety, accreditation, readiness, and adherence to professional and organizational standards.
• Collaborating with operational leaders and stakeholders on strategic planning, service development, resource allocation, and operational priorities.
• Advancing physician engagement, standards of practice, medical education, and academic partnerships.
• Leading quality improvement, research, innovation, and change-management initiatives to enhance patient outcomes and service delivery.
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will be a collaborative, effective, and respected physician leader who demonstrates strong communication skills, as well as a commitment to quality improvement and patient-centered geriatric mental health care. The successful candidate will be capable of building effective partnerships across clinical, operational, academic, and community environments.
The successful applicant must hold an MD or its equivalency, have or be eligible for certification with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and shall have or be eligible for licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta.
In addition, the successful applicant shall:
• Have evidence of administrative, leadership, quality improvement, and/or medical management experience.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams.
• Have knowledge of geriatric mental health services and the unique needs of the geriatric populations.
• Hold or be eligible for an academic appointment with the applicable Faculty of Medicine
• Obtain and maintain a Recovery Alberta Medical Staff Appointment.
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
Reporting Relationship:
The practitioner will report to the Provincial Medical Director, Geriatric Psychiatry & Mental Healthcare.
Term:
Start date is negotiable.
Deadline for submission of applications is 10 days; however, the competition will remain open until the position is filled.
Additional Information:
This position is 0.2 FTE.
Remuneration is in accordance with CMO Policy for contracted medical leadership positions.
We thank you for your interest in this position; only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Contact:
If you have questions about this position, please contact:
Dr. Joshua Benjamin, Provincial Medical Director, Geriatric Psychiatry & Mental Healthcare
Email: josh.benjamin@recoveryalberta.ca