Clinical Placements Coordinator

Date Posted: 06/03/2026
Req ID: 48378
Faculty/Division: Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Department: Scarborough Academy of Medicine & Integrated Health
Campus: University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)
Position Number: 00059214
Existing Vacancy: Yes

Description:

About us:
Home to over 40 departments and institutes, the University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine lies at the heart of the Toronto Academic Health Science Network and is a global leader in ground-breaking research and education, spanning clinical medicine, basic science and the rehabilitation sciences sectors.
Your opportunity:
The University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) is a place of energy, enthusiasm and passion. The Scarborough Academy of Medicine and Integrated Health (SAMIH) at UTSC will be a hub for health professional education in the Eastern Greater Toronto Area. Working with regional hospitals and other clinical and community partners, SAMIH will be home to Temerty Faculty of Medicine's Physician Assistant (BScPA) program and be an additional site for distributed delivery of the MD and Physical Therapy programs. Sharing the building with Nurse Practitioner, Pharmacy and Clinical Psychology clinics, and housing the UTSC Undergraduate Health Sciences programs, this opportunity will be part of the Temerty Medicine team at SAMIH.
As Clinical Placements Coordinator, you will play a key role in organizing clinical placements for Physician Assistant students throughout the southern region. You will be responsible for recruiting and maintaining relationships with existing practicum sites, ensuring all placement agreements and required documentation are submitted in a timely manner in accordance with University and site specific policy, and coordinate clinical placement evaluations. Drawing on your strong relationship management skills, you will collaborate with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine to coordinate learner placements across both northern and southern regions, including arranging housing, transportation, and other supports to ensure a smooth and successful placement experience for learners.
Your responsibilities will include:

• Fostering and maintaining positive relations with stakeholders to support clinical placement activities
• Coordinating clinical placement schedules and reviewing and assessing student learning outcomes
• Documenting and maintaining curriculum maps
• Coordinating the preparation of space, materials and equipment required for daily programming activities
• Maintaining a database of clinical placement sites across hospitals, health care units, and family health team

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience
• Minimum four years' of relevant experience coordinating clinical placement programs, preferably in a University or hospital setting
• Knowledge of clinical placement policies and processes
• Demonstrated experience coordinating rotation schedules and timetables
• Demonstrated success with collaborating and building relationships with a variety of stakeholders
• Experience maintaining databases and generating reports
• Experience coordinating events, workshops and seminars
• Advanced proficiency with MS Office Suite, student information systems, learner management systems, survey tools and video conference platforms
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written), critical thinking, interpersonal and organizational skills
• Ability to exercise initiative, tact, discretion, problem solving skills and to work under pressure to meet deadlines
• Ability to work well independently, but also as part of a team
• Demonstrated ability to learn and innovate, using technology
• Demonstrated good judgment, attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy
• Demonstrated commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and the promotion of a respectful and collegial learning and working environment

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Communicator
• Proactive
• Problem solver
• Resourceful
• Self-directed

Closing Date: 06/12/2026, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 10 -- $72,119. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $92,226. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Administrative / Managerial
Recruiter: Sharon Hung

Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.

Job descriptions are available upon request for internal applicants.