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Job Requisition ID:2026-03030Time Type:Full timeEmployee Group:StaffJob Category:Medical Health and WellnessEmployment Type:TemporaryDepartment:Campus WellnessHiring Range:$123,660.99
- $154,576.24Posting Information:This posting is for an existing vacancy.
This position is being offered as a temporary contract. Contract end date: March 31, 2028Job Description:Primary PurposeThe Associate Director, Health Services (ADHS) is accountable to support Campus Wellness senior leadership (University Medical Director and Director, Operations) in the strategic and operational management of Health Services (HS), advancing Campus Wellness's commitment to student health and well-being while ensuring services are delivered in accordance with the Regulated Health Professions Act and professional standards.
The ADHS provides senior clinical leadership to the Campus Wellness team, assisting with primary healthcare issues that affect academic and personal well-being. As a licensed healthcare professional with deep clinical acumen, the incumbent is directly accountable to the University Medical Director for the effective operationalization of clinical services, ensuring that professional standards and clinical excellence drive all aspects of departmental performance. While maintaining a functional reporting relationship with the Director, Operations for administrative alignment,



the ADHS acts as the lead strategic collaborator in implementing clinical vision and strategy. By applying practitioner-level insights, the ADHS bridges the gap between high-level institutional strategy and frontline care, leading interdisciplinary teams to ensure student health needs are met through integrated, evidence-informed service deliveryKey AccountabilitiesCritical Response ManagementCollaborates with the Health Services (HS) Leadership team to facilitate the delivery and ongoing evaluation of UWaterloo crisis response including an effective intake/triage management system and crisis interventionCoordinate and facilitate Health Services’ response for consultation and intervention for critical healthcare situations for the UWaterloo student community by providing support, assistance, and guidance through debriefing, healthcare intervention and consultation as well as liaising with UWaterloo Special Constable ServicesHuman Resources ManagementManages and holds the HS team leaders accountable to help achieve a fair, integrative, effective, and inclusive Campus Wellness (CW) service, and drives a culture of accountabilityProvides strategic leadership to equitably acquire, manage, retain, grow, and promote appropriate and diverse human resources throughout CW to deliver high quality care and collaboration to meet the diverse needs of CW clientsPromotes innovation, creativity, and effective solutions,



enabling HS employees to maximize their potential in a ‘fail fast forward’ culture, with fair performance management, recognition, and rewardsCoordinates HS leaders through role clarity, effective communications, and interactions across CW that achieve synergy, efficiency, and optimal integrationEnables resolution and synthesis of differences in multi-disciplinary and diverse teamsAccountable to ensure equitable and effective performance management throughout HSCollaborates effectively with all CW leadership to help enable a productive, safe, and stress-buffered working environmentPerforms overall managerial responsibilities for HS, including equitable recruitment, hiring, staff performance, salary administration, promotions, reclassifications, disciplinary issues, training, organization of functions, the establishment of policies, procedures and standards, monitoring of performance and focusing of staff efforts on CW prioritiesIn collaboration with the University Medical Director, is responsible for recruiting and directing psychiatrists to fulfill senior and junior positions developed to provide psychiatric services and psychiatric leadership in mental health program development on campusResponsible for recruiting, supervising and directing a full time dietitianHas oversight of the recruitment and retention of nursing staffProvides support to the University Medical Director in the recruitment and retention of physiciansMedicine and Primary Health CareMedical consultation (within confidentiality guidelines) with student service professionals, faculty and administration regarding individual students and community health issuesThe incumbent will conduct clinical service in HS subject to fluctuating demands, an

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