Health Care Managers
Job description
These individuals plan, organize, monitor, and evaluate the delivery of health care services. They work in health care institutions.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Ensure the delivery of health care services in a health care facility.
- Consult with boards of directors and senior management regarding health care delivery standards.
- Monitor the quality of health care provided to clients.
- Ensure the effective and efficient use of resources.
- Plan and control the budget of the department or facility.
- Represent the department or establishment to government officials, the general public, agencies, or the media.
- Recruit medical staff.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience leads to senior management positions in health care delivery.
- These individuals may specialize in the administration of specific health care services such as dietetics, clinical medicine, laboratory medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, or surgery.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $29.85
- Median
- $53.00
- Maximum
- $64.62
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
8,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 71.8% Female
- 28.2% Male
Not available.
- 71.8% Female
- 28.2% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$112,000
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- None
All of Québec
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 621, 622, 62396% of jobs
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NAICS 6243% of jobs
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NAICS 810% of jobs
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NAICS 410% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 450% of jobs
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Others1% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 621, 622, 62396% of jobs
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NAICS 6243% of jobs
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NAICS 810% of jobs
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NAICS 410% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 450% of jobs
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Others1% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
Numerous training and study programs lead to managerial or executive positions.
University
Health services management
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 100%
This discipline is taught in the following institutions:
Also required
- Training as a Medical Specialist to lead services in surgery, clinical medicine, and laboratory medicine.
- Training in the appropriate field to direct services such as nursing, dietetics, and physiotherapy.
- Certification as a Manager in the appropriate field.
Sometimes required
- Knowledge of the existing computerized system is often required.
- Experience in a management position may be required or an asset.
- Training in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is often required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Information processing
- Data collection
- Oral expression
- Critical thought
- Reading comprehension
- Coordination
- Active listening
- Written expression
- Time management
- Judgment and decision-making
- Active learning
- Social perception
- Systems evaluation
- Human resource management
- Service oriented
- Solving complex problems
- Teaching
- Result evaluation
- Persuasion
- System analysis
- Operation analysis
- Negotiation
- Financial resource management
- Material resource management
- Learning strategies
Abilities
- Verbal skills
- Written comprehension
- Oral comprehension
- Written expression
- Speech clarity
- Awareness of issues
- Deductive reasoning
- Inductive reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Near vision
- Information organization
- Classification
- Idea generation
- Originality
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
- Leadership
- Political sense
- Knowledge of administration and management
- Knowledge of personnel and human resource management
- Sense of responsibility
- Capacity to influence and mobilize
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Capacity to network
- Respect others
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work with numbers
- Work in an office
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Official name of the NOC 30010
Managers in health care
Job titles
- Nursing services administrator
- Chief of pharmacy
- Director of clinical medicine
- Chief of staff - hospital
- Assistant director of nursing
- Assistant nursing services administrator
- Blood bank administrator
- Dental health services administrator
- Therapeutic services administrator
- Chief of operating area
- Chief of housing activities
- Chief dietitian
- Chief of medical staff
- Chief of anatomical pathology
- Chief of anesthesia
- Chief of audiology and speech language pathology
- Chief of endocrinology
- Chief of occupational therapy
- Chief of hematology
- Chief of diagnostic imaging
- Chief of obstetrics and gynecology
- Chief of radiation oncology
- Chief of ophthalmology
- Chief of urology
- Chief of cardiology
- Chief of surgery
- Chief of dermatology
- Chief of gastro-enterology
- Chief of biomedical engineering service
- Chief of infectious diseases
- Chief of emergency medicine
- Chief of laboratory medicine
- Chief of nephrology
- Chief of neurology
- Chief of pathology
- Chief of pediatrics
- Chief of physiotherapy
- Chief of psychiatry
- Chief of psychology
- Chief of diagnostic radiology
- Chief of rheumatology
- Chief of respirology
- Chief of medicine
- Chief radiology technologist
- Assistant administrator for nursing
- Dental laboratory managing supervisor
- Medical director
- Nursing unit administrator
- Medical clinic director
- Podiatric clinic manager
- Pharmacy director
- Mental health residential care program manager
- Clinical services manager
- Occupational health services director
- First aid services director
- Red cross first aid director
- Rehabilitation services director
- Rehabilitation services director - medical services
- Home care services director - medical services
- Director of nursing - medical services
- Behaviour therapy services director
- Public health nursing services director
- Director of professional services - medical services
- Therapeutic services director
- Therapeutic services director - psychiatric hospital
- Director of audiology and speech language pathology
- Director of occupational therapy
- Director of surgery
- Director of dietetics
- Director of laboratory medicine
- Director of physiotherapy
- Director of psychology - health care
Skill type
Health
Last update: January 29, 2026
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