Emergency Preparedness Specialist - Emergency Preparedness

Women's College Hospital, 76 Grenville Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Posted Friday, October 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM | Expires Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 4:59 AM

Women's College Hospital (WCH) is an academic, ambulatory care hospital in Ontario with a focus on health for women, health equity and health system solutions. If you're ready to be part of a team that is revolutionizing the future of healthcare, then you will want to join an institution where the possibilities for innovation, new discovery and system thinking are limitless.

Women's College Hospital is committed to equity, quality and patient safety as key professional values and essential components of daily practice.

Healthcare Revolutionized 2030 is our roadmap to the future. Our strategy is built on the pledge that the founders of our hospital made 140 years ago and reaffirms our commitment to providing equitable, accessible, best‑in‑class healthcare for everyone – meeting people where they are on their healthcare journey and partnering with them to reach their goals of living their healthiest lives possible.

The stage has been set for Women’s to accelerate our priorities and capture the momentum to catapult our system forward to revolutionize healthcare for everyone.

Applicants must reside and be legally eligible to work in Ontario.

This is a Regular Full-Time Opportunity

Type:
Replacement

Job Description

The Department of Facilities & Operations is a corporate portfolio of functional areas which provide leadership and operational support for the achievement of strategic directions and corporate objectives of Women’s College Hospital. The principal functional areas include enterprise risk management, claims management, and emergency preparedness and management. The department serves as the corporate catalyst that enables the advancement of a comprehensive and continuous enterprise risk process in which risks are identified, analyzed, and mitigated within acceptable risk tolerances.

Summary of Duties, but not limited to:

• Conduct system level planning, analysis, and implementation of Women’s College Hospital Emergency Management framework (Prevention & Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery) in order to protect the organization’s ability to provide patient care during an emergency
• Being WCH’s subject matter expert and key consultant for Emergency Management
• Development and review of Emergency Management codes, relevant policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with key legislative and regulatory requirements
• Ensuring the Emergency Management Plan and Preparedness are current and aligned with best practices, corporate compliance, including with emergency service providers and authorities
• Subject matter expert for the development of specific department plans across WCH for emergency Codes (code blue, Code white, red, etc.);
• Coordinate and implement Business Continuity Planning at the department and organizational level
• Establishment and implementation of Incident Management System (IMS) Methodology
• Oversee and coordinate compliance to Accreditation and other pertinent standards for the Hospital
• Serve as a key subject matter expert and liaison for the hospital in key internal and external partnerships (e.g. provincial, municipal and regional services, committees, including the provincial Emergency Management Communication Tool
• Facilitate development and evaluation of emergency preparedness education and training for all codes using multiple modalities (e.g. simulations, tabletop exercises, etc.)
• Develops comprehensive Emergency Preparedness related learning resources (including delivering in‑class session and providing e‑learning content) and raises awareness of the program and its initiatives.
• Works collaboratively with Quality, Patient Safety Risk Management, Facilities & Operations Security and various departments on Emergency Preparedness
• Participates in activities that support the function of the Joint Health and Safety Committee, including providing reports and relevant statistics
• Member of the Ontario Health Toronto Emergency Preparedness Quality Improvement Committee (THEPQIC)
• Member of the Hospitals’ Emergency…