Clinical Director, Professional Practice & Integrated Care

About the opportunity

Maxwell Management Group is recruiting a Clinical Director, Professional Practice & Integrated Care for Nucleus Independent Living in Oakville, Ontario. Nucleus delivers home and community care and works with hospitals, Ontario Health Teams, primary care and community partners. The organization describes a digital-first approach that uses data, analytics and virtual solutions to support care delivery and system flow.

Position overview

The Clinical Director provides senior, organization-wide leadership for professional practice, clinical governance, quality, education and integrated models of care. The role connects frontline clinical practice with organizational strategy, digital innovation, workforce sustainability and broader health-system partnerships.

Professional practice and clinical governance

• Lead professional-practice standards, scopes of practice, policies, procedures and clinical protocols across PSW, nursing and interprofessional teams.
• Support nursing practice that enables early intervention, escalation and continuity of care in the community.
• Embed professional standards and outcome measurement into nursing-led models of care.
• Maintain compliance with regulatory-college standards, legislation, professional accountability frameworks and ethical practice.
• Lead clinical risk management, incident review, critical-incident analysis and corrective-action planning.
• Maintain relationships with regulatory bodies, professional associations and sector partners.

Hospital-to-home and integrated care

• Lead the clinical design, implementation and evaluation of Nucleus' Hospital-to-Home model.
• Advance integrated-care pathways with hospitals, Ontario Health Teams, primary care and community organizations.
• Support community stabilization, ALC avoidance, chronic-disease management, dementia care and complex-care models.

Interprofessional teamwork

• Champion the One TEAM model across PSWs, nurses, care coordinators and leaders.
• Strengthen shared accountability, role clarity and psychological safety.
• Develop frontline and emerging leaders to support stronger team-based care.

Quality, safety, education and innovation

• Establish and monitor clinical quality and safety indicators such as falls, medication incidents, infections, emergency-department visits and hospital readmissions.
• Use digital tools, data and analytics to drive continuous quality improvement and proactive clinical decision-making.
• Develop a corporate clinical-education and learning strategy.
• Oversee onboarding pathways, competency frameworks and continuing professional development.
• Lead infection-prevention-and-control policies, education and risk mitigation.
• Contribute clinical expertise to funding proposals, pilots, partnerships and system initiatives.

The role is designed for a senior clinical leader who can operate at both the practice and system levels while maintaining a strong connection to frontline care.

• Regulated health professional in good standing; Registered Nurse preferred.
• Master's degree in Nursing, Health, Education or a related field.
• 7–10 years of progressive clinical leadership experience, preferably in home/community care or integrated health systems.
• Demonstrated expertise in professional practice, quality, education and integrated models of care.
• Strong understanding of Ontario Health priorities, Hospital-to-Home models and interprofessional practice.
• Formal education or demonstrated expertise in adult-learning principles.
• Strong systems thinking, communication, leadership and change-management capability.
• Ability to execute complex initiatives, projects and care models with measurable outcomes.

Oakville, ON. Published annual salary range: $125,000–$130,000, four weeks of vacation, HOOPP eligibility and Blue Cross benefits. Named recruiter: Charline Lauria.