Assessors - Community Diagnostics Centres

Join Our Mission to Elevate Outpatient Diagnostics Care in Ontario

Accreditation Canada is seeking experienced physicians and technologists to serve as assessors for the Integrated Community Health Services Centres (ICHSC) Quality Assurance Program. As an ICHSC diagnostics assessor, you will conduct assessments of community-based diagnostic centres, helping to ensure that licensed services meet rigorous quality and safety standards.

Accreditation Canada has been a leader in health care quality improvement for over 65 years. Through evidence-informed standards, assessments, education, and data-driven insights, we work collaboratively with health and social service organizations to foster continuous improvement and advance patient-centred care.

The ICHSC Quality Assurance Program is a mandatory, inspection-based accreditation program in the Province of Ontario that enhances patient safety by assessing the facility-level policy and operations supporting the delivery of licensed services at a diagnostic, surgical and/or medical centre. Licensed services include:

• Pulmonary Function Tests
• Sleep Medicine
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Computed Tomography
• Nuclear Medicine
• Positron Emission Tomography
• Bone Densitometry
• General Radiography
• Mammography
• Ultrasound (including ophthalmic)

• Drive system-wide impact. Use your clinical expertise to shape safer, high-quality diagnostic services across community centres.
• Flexible engagement. Participate in a minimum of two inspections per year, scheduled around your availability.
• Professional development. Receive comprehensive initial training, ongoing learning opportunities, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
• Be part of something larger. Contribute to Accreditation Canada’s people-centred mission and help elevate diagnostic care standards province-wide.

We invite applications from Canadian health care professionals (preference given to Ontario residents) who meet the following criteria:

• Current Clinical Engagement: Actively or recently involved in delivering any of the licensed services above within an acute care hospital or community diagnostic setting.
• Valid Professional License or Certification: Technologist or physician in good standing with the relevant provincial regulatory college. For unregulated professions, certification through an appropriate certification body is required.
• Speciality
  
  Experience:
  
  
  • As a physician:
    Experience in ≥1 of these specialties:
    Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Sleep Medicine, Ophthalmology, Respirology.
  • As a technologist: ≥2 years’ experience working in one or more of the diagnostic modalities listed above.
• Communication & Analytical
  
  Skills:
  
  
  • Fluency in English with excellent written and verbal communication.
  • Ability to review centre policies, technical protocols, and patient results; analyse information; and draw evidence-based conclusions.
• Interpersonal & Technological
  
  Skills:
  
  
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills, a positive attitude, and adaptability when faced with evolving inspection dynamics.
  • Proficiency with computers, tablets and web-based software for report preparation, image or case review, and data collection.

At this time, our recruitment efforts are focused on candidates with the following clinical experience:

• Ophthalmic ultrasound (physicians and technologists)
• Radiology (physicians only)
• Sleep medicine (physicians only)
• Pulmonary function testing (physicians and technologists/therapists)

We welcome applications from individuals with experience in other specialties; however, please note that we do not have a timeline for opportunities in those areas and will retain your application on file for future consideration.

As an ICHSC diagnostics assessor, you will:

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