Reporting to the Director, Patient Care Services, the Manager, Patient Care Services (MPCS) provides front line professional and administrative leadership for the team in the delivery of mental health services. The MPCS is accountable for the quality of Forensic Mental Health Service clients receive and for monitoring and maintaining appropriate standards of an interdisciplinary professional mental health team in accordance with established standards of practice and policy.

Duties

• Provides an administrative and clinical management presence on evenings, nights, and weekends.
• Point of contact after hours (interdisciplinary team, other departments, and external stakeholders) related to overall patient care.
• Responsible for management of emergencies off hours and deployment of staff as needed.
• Ensures patient safety by monitoring assignments and intervening, reassigning or taking over patient care in extraordinary circumstances. <...