Manager, Professional Practice and Quality; Seniors Services

Manager, Professional Practice and Quality (Seniors Services)

Job Number: 4934
Job Type: Full-Time
Vacancy Reason: Backfill
Location: 247 Franklin St N - Sunnyside Home
Number of Positions:1
Division: Community Services
Hours of Work: 35 hours per week, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday with the ability to participate in an on-call rotation
Union: Management/Management Support
Grade: Management/Management Support Grade 08
Salary Range: $ - $ per year

At Sunnyside Home, care is personal.

As the first long-term care home in Waterloo Region certified in The Butterfly Approach®, we are recognized for creating a warm, home-like environment where relationships, emotional well-being, and resident choice come first.

Here, you’ll be part of a compassionate and innovative team that is committed to meaningful connections, person-centred care, and making every day matter for residents and families.

If you’re looking for more than just a job, and want to be part of a workplace where kindness, collaboration, and dignity are at the heart of the work, we’d love to hear from you.

The Region of Waterloo is a diverse and growing community committed to creating opportunities for current and future generations.

Waterloo Region is part of the Dish With One Spoon wampum, a treaty grounded in sharing, sustainability, and respect:

• Take only what we need
• Leave some for others
• Keep the dish clean

These principles continue to guide our commitment to reconciliation, inclusion, and community well-being.

Designs, maintains, and evaluates the internal investigative and quality management program to ensure consistency of delivered services, compliance with legislation, directives, policies, procedures, clinical practice, and staff training.

• Ensures service delivery and operations meet regulatory compliance requirements and person-centred service philosophy.
• Supervises Quality and Risk Coordinator, RAI team, Staff Education Coordinator, and Quality RPNs.
• Performs and manages internal investigations in response to complaints and quality assurance concerns regarding delivery of resident care services and professional practice standards. Obtains, organizes, and analyses pertinent records and information as evidence (e.g., resident care documentation, call reports, security footage).
• Develops and implements quality improvement/best practice initiatives, including leading/supporting in accreditation program teams, managing the continuous quality improvement program, and conducting program reviews.
• Supports compliance management program in collaboration with the Manager, Resident Care. Responds to concerns related to compliance, develops action plans, and supports compliance assurance.
• Collaborates with Labour Relations to design, maintain, and evaluate the internal investigative and quality review program. Monitors and prepares reports on the status of investigations; presents to senior management; and makes recommendations to improve/revise the program. Assists senior management in determining training requirements and provides investigative training to supervisors, as required. Oversees and supervises investigations conducted by other members of the supervisory team.
• Oversees the resident complaint management program. Performs initial intake for complaints and quality concerns regarding the delivery of resident services and professional practice standards. Communicates with complainants to acknowledge receipt, clarify information, respond to questions, and provide information regarding processes and practices. Ensures complaints are responded to within the legislative requirements and closes incidents not requiring full investigation. Prepares quarterly and annual…