Senior Communications Advisor, Clinical Programs
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description Through its core values of Courage, Respect and Excellence , CAMH is implementing its Strategic Plan: Connected CAMH, to transform lives, ignite innovation and discovery, revolutionize education and drive social change. CAMH is more than a hospital, it is a cause. CAMH is on a mission to change the way society thinks about and responds to mental illness. They aim to eliminate prejudice and discrimination and shape a world where mental illness is central to our healthcare system – a world where Mental Health is Health. To learn more about CAMH, please visit their website at: www.camh.ca. To view our Land Acknowledgment, please click here. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is seeking a full-time Senior Communications Advisor to lead strategic internal and external communications for CAMH’s clinical portfolio and support priority system initiatives such as the Provincial Coordinated Access Initiative.
Reporting to the Manager, Communications, and working closely with the Director, Public Affairs and senior clinical leadership, this position plays a critical role in strengthening internal communications, elevating clinical excellence internally and externally, and ensuring clear, consistent articulation of clinical priorities across CAMH.
The successful candidate will be a strategic, curious, relationshipdriven communicator with strong editorial instincts and the ability to translate complex clinical work into accessible, compelling narratives. They will help build internal communications infrastructure across clinical teams, support leadership alignment, and amplify clinical impact through CAMH’s owned and earned channels.
This role requires a communicator who can navigate a complex clinical environment, manage multiple priorities, demonstrate sound judgement, and work collaboratively with clinicians, leaders and Public Affairs colleagues to ensure communications are coordinated, strategic, and aligned with CAMH’s mission and brand.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead internal communications infrastructure: Build and implement tools, processes, and systems that strengthen clarity, alignment, and engagement across clinical teams.
- Partner with clinical leadership to support priorities and change initiatives: Translate key priorities, expectations and organizational changes into accessible, actionable communications, and develop clear messaging, materials and plans that guide clinical teams through updates and transformation.
- Profile clinical excellence and innovation: Identify and elevate impactful clinical work, translating complex concepts into compelling stories and creatively packaged content for internal and external audiences.
- Lead communications for Coordinated Access: Lead and support communications planning, messaging, and engagement for the Provincial Coordinated Access Initiative.
- Create compelling clinical content: Produce clear, audienceappropriate written and visual materials that highlight CAMH’s expertise and contributions to patient care.
- Ensure alignment across Public Affairs: Collaborate with communications colleagues to amplify clinical stories and ensure messaging consistency across channels.
- Support hospitalwide communications: Contribute to major announcements, events, system initiatives, and partnerships to ensure clinical perspectives are reflected and coordinated.
Minimum Requirements The successful candidate will have a postsecondary education in communications, journalism, public relations, or a related field, combined with at least five years of experience in communications. Experience working in a healthcare or academic health sciences environment is considered an asset. You will have exceptional writing, editing and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex clinical topics for diverse audiences. Proficiency with digital communications tools and design and editing software (e.g., Canva or Adobe Creative Suite), and working knowledge of basic photo/video production tools is required.
Additional Information
- This position is based at CAMH’s Queen Street site
Occasional evening or weekend work may be required
Compensation & Benefits:
- Salary is competitive and based on experience, with a hiring range of $83,797.50 – $104,746.88 per year.
- Employees in this role may progress within the full pay range of $83,797.50 – $125,696.26 per year
- CAMH’s Total Rewards: Includes participation in HOOPP defined benefit pension plan, extended health and dental benefits, paid vacation starting at 4 weeks, flexible work arrangements, and ongoing professional development support.
This role allows professionals to apply their expertise in a mission-driven environment dedicated to public health outcomes. Compensation & Benefits:
- Salary is competitive and based on experience, with a hiring range of $83,797.50 – $104,746.88 per year.
- Employees in this role may progress within the full pay range of $83,797.50 – $125,696.26 per year
- CAMH’s Total Rewards: Includes participation in HOOPP defined benefit pension plan, extended health and dental benefits, paid vacation starting at 4 weeks, flexible work arrangements, and ongoing professional development support.
This role allows professionals to apply their expertise in a mission-driven environment dedicated to public health outcomes.
About CAMH
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital. CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental health and addiction issues.
As a teaching hospital, CAMH provides education, training, internships and residencies for students. People training to work in the health care field, including psychiatrists, psychologists, pharmacists, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers and laboratory technologists, come to CAMH for practical experience.
We believe that Mental Health is Health, and through our work we are building a movement for social change: raising awareness, challenging prejudice, and advocating for public policies that support mental health.
Please note that our social media channels are not monitored 24/7. If you are experiencing thoughts of suicide, you are deserving of help - visit www.camh.ca/gethelp for more information. If you feel safe in the moment, follow up with your family physician or care team. If you require immediate, in-person emergency care, call 911, or go to your nearest emergency department.
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Senior Communications Advisor, Clinical Programs
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description Through its core values of Courage, Respect and Excellence , CAMH is implementing its Strategic Plan: Connected CAMH, to transform lives, ignite innovation and discovery, revolutionize education and drive social change. CAMH is more than a hospital, it is a cause. CAMH is on a mission to change the way society thinks about and responds to mental illness. They aim to eliminate prejudice and discrimination and shape a world where mental illness is central to our healthcare system – a world where Mental Health is Health. To learn more about CAMH, please visit their website at: www.camh.ca. To view our Land Acknowledgment, please click here. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is seeking a full-time Senior Communications Advisor to lead strategic internal and external communications for CAMH’s clinical portfolio and support priority system initiatives such as the Provincial Coordinated Access Initiative.
Reporting to the Manager, Communications, and working closely with the Director, Public Affairs and senior clinical leadership, this position plays a critical role in strengthening internal communications, elevating clinical excellence internally and externally, and ensuring clear, consistent articulation of clinical priorities across CAMH.
The successful candidate will be a strategic, curious, relationshipdriven communicator with strong editorial instincts and the ability to translate complex clinical work into accessible, compelling narratives. They will help build internal communications infrastructure across clinical teams, support leadership alignment, and amplify clinical impact through CAMH’s owned and earned channels.
This role requires a communicator who can navigate a complex clinical environment, manage multiple priorities, demonstrate sound judgement, and work collaboratively with clinicians, leaders and Public Affairs colleagues to ensure communications are coordinated, strategic, and aligned with CAMH’s mission and brand.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead internal communications infrastructure: Build and implement tools, processes, and systems that strengthen clarity, alignment, and engagement across clinical teams.
- Partner with clinical leadership to support priorities and change initiatives: Translate key priorities, expectations and organizational changes into accessible, actionable communications, and develop clear messaging, materials and plans that guide clinical teams through updates and transformation.
- Profile clinical excellence and innovation: Identify and elevate impactful clinical work, translating complex concepts into compelling stories and creatively packaged content for internal and external audiences.
- Lead communications for Coordinated Access: Lead and support communications planning, messaging, and engagement for the Provincial Coordinated Access Initiative.
- Create compelling clinical content: Produce clear, audienceappropriate written and visual materials that highlight CAMH’s expertise and contributions to patient care.
- Ensure alignment across Public Affairs: Collaborate with communications colleagues to amplify clinical stories and ensure messaging consistency across channels.
- Support hospitalwide communications: Contribute to major announcements, events, system initiatives, and partnerships to ensure clinical perspectives are reflected and coordinated.
Minimum Requirements The successful candidate will have a postsecondary education in communications, journalism, public relations, or a related field, combined with at least five years of experience in communications. Experience working in a healthcare or academic health sciences environment is considered an asset. You will have exceptional writing, editing and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex clinical topics for diverse audiences. Proficiency with digital communications tools and design and editing software (e.g., Canva or Adobe Creative Suite), and working knowledge of basic photo/video production tools is required.
Additional Information
- This position is based at CAMH’s Queen Street site
Occasional evening or weekend work may be required
Compensation & Benefits:
- Salary is competitive and based on experience, with a hiring range of $83,797.50 – $104,746.88 per year.
- Employees in this role may progress within the full pay range of $83,797.50 – $125,696.26 per year
- CAMH’s Total Rewards: Includes participation in HOOPP defined benefit pension plan, extended health and dental benefits, paid vacation starting at 4 weeks, flexible work arrangements, and ongoing professional development support.
This role allows professionals to apply their expertise in a mission-driven environment dedicated to public health outcomes. Compensation & Benefits:
- Salary is competitive and based on experience, with a hiring range of $83,797.50 – $104,746.88 per year.
- Employees in this role may progress within the full pay range of $83,797.50 – $125,696.26 per year
- CAMH’s Total Rewards: Includes participation in HOOPP defined benefit pension plan, extended health and dental benefits, paid vacation starting at 4 weeks, flexible work arrangements, and ongoing professional development support.
This role allows professionals to apply their expertise in a mission-driven environment dedicated to public health outcomes.
About CAMH
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital. CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental health and addiction issues.
As a teaching hospital, CAMH provides education, training, internships and residencies for students. People training to work in the health care field, including psychiatrists, psychologists, pharmacists, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers and laboratory technologists, come to CAMH for practical experience.
We believe that Mental Health is Health, and through our work we are building a movement for social change: raising awareness, challenging prejudice, and advocating for public policies that support mental health.
Please note that our social media channels are not monitored 24/7. If you are experiencing thoughts of suicide, you are deserving of help - visit www.camh.ca/gethelp for more information. If you feel safe in the moment, follow up with your family physician or care team. If you require immediate, in-person emergency care, call 911, or go to your nearest emergency department.