For 100 years and counting, Southlake Health has built healthy communities through leading edge care with an unwavering pride for people, place, and performance. Over the years, Southlake Health has evolved into one of Canada’s top healthcare organizations. It is more than a single centre. Southlake Health is a network of expertise, compassion, and excellence that delivers health and wellness, close to home.
With 6,000 staff, medical staff, volunteers and learners, as well as an operating budget in excess of $600 million, Southlake Health operates several sites to deliver care to patients across northern York Region and southern Simcoe County. It also provides specialized cardiac and cancer care to patients as far north as Muskoka and as far south as North York through its regional programs.
Southlake Health is committed to growing alongside the communities its serves through it’s new Strategy for the Decade Ahead, which will transform Southlake into a Distributed Health Network focused on delivering leading edge care, closer to home by utilizing state-of-the-art technologies, advanced research, and the latest techniques to help patients in every stage of life.
Southlake’s Board of Directors currently seeks to elect new Directors. To complement our skills-based Board, we invite applications from qualified individuals with expertise and knowledge in the field of government relations. Government relations refers to the strategic management of an organization’s interactions with government bodies, policymakers, and regulatory agencies. It involves activities such as advocacy, lobbying, policy analysis, and relationship-building to support public policy that aligns with the organization’s interests.
Preference will be given to candidates who demonstrate knowledge of the healthcare sector and understand what it will take to meet the future needs of the rapidly growing communities we serve.
Board members receive no monetary compensation and are expected to devote approximately 12 hours per month to hospital matters. In addition to serving as a member of the Board, members must serve on a Board sub-committee: Governance and People; Quality; or Finance, Property and Audit. To learn more about Southlake and the role of the Board of Directors, visit our website at southlake.ca.
Please send a letter or email describing your background and the reason for your interest by March 26, 2025 to the Chair, Board of Directors, c/o Vanessa Girmenia, Southlake Health, 596 Davis Drive, Newmarket, L3Y 2P9 or via email to vtuzi@ southlake.ca. Candidates will also be required to provide one or more letters of reference.
Applications received will be considered for the 2025/2026 fiscal year.
