Regional Chief Interprofessional Practice Officer

**Title**: Regional Chief Interprofessional Practice Officer (CIPO)

**Department**: Lumeo Operations Team

**Hours of Work**: One (1) Full-time position, Days

**Pay Band**: $151,027.75 - $181,232.38 per annum

**Union**: Non-Union

**Location**: Virtual/Remote (with some regional travel)

**Note**: Kingston Health Sciences Centre is the employer of record.

PRIMARY FUNCTION

The Regional Chief Interprofessional Practice Officer (CIPO) works closely with Lumeo operational leadership team and liaises with nursing, allied health and other interprofessional practice staff from across the region to provide clinical leadership and inform strategic planning to support Lumeo Operations. They are responsible for creating, maintaining, and enforcing regional standards, and reporting on adoption of standards.

Reporting to the Regional Vice President, Digital Services, the CIPO will oversee the maintenance and optimization of the RHIS ensuring that clinical best practices are considered while making any changes to the regional system. This includes working closely with the local Chief Nursing Information Officers (CNIOs), Chief Interprofessional Practice Officers (CIPO) and other clinical executive to ensure they are aware and prepared to manage the changes coming from Lumeo operations. The CIPO will also be responsible for driving the Lumeo vision, regional clinical alignment, and enabling effective decision
- making while advocating for clinical needs.

As an employee, the CIPO must demonstrate an awareness of and be responsible for actively promoting and supporting patient and family centered engagement and care.

**RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES INCLUDE**:
**Strategic Planning**:

- Develop strategies collaboratively with clinical leaders (Nursing/ Allied Health) to support patient care and clinical practice.
- Supports the identification, development, planning, implementation, and measurement of Lumeo RHIS strategy to support patient care and clinical practice.
- Communicates the Regional Lumeo strategic vision and act as the liaison between local clinicians, allied health professionals, regional team, and local informatics departments.
- Works closely with the Lumeo regional team and partner organizations on change management strategies as the Lumeo RHIS and workflows evolve.
- Understands and assesses impact and change management needs for new features and changes in the Oracle Cerner solution.
- Ensures alignment of clinical decisions with RHIS strategy

**Operations**:

- Alongside regional leaders, develops and implements metrics around interprofessional staff engagement, adoption, and usability of the clinical information system and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Works with clinical operational leaders to trust and critically use dashboards to inform operational decision making.
- Collaborates with the Lumeo team and Southeast clinical teams to help translate clinical requirements that support RHIS design.
- Translates IT / RHIS requirements and system limitations to support clinical discussions and decision making.
- Collaborates with the regional team and clinical leaders across Southeast Organizations to support continued optimization and development of the Lumeo RHIS and clinical information systems.
- Regional escalation point of contact for concerns / issues from project team or workgroups

**Relationships Building**:

- Ensures communication and engagement with the Senior Clinical Leadership supporting RHIS at all sites to ensure the following outcomes:

- Transparency of operational activities and decisions
- Awareness of high-risk workflows being discussed and mitigation strategies o Organizational readiness for change
- Understands needs for nursing and allied health professionals and build relationships with clinical staff to assure widespread acceptance, adoption, and meaningful use of the clinical information system
- Advances the practice and profile of the RHIS strategy across organizations by participating on relevant local, regional and provincial digital health advisory committees
- Establishes relationships with peer organizations in Canada to promote knowledge sharing and opportunities for collaboration
- Establishes relationships and support goals of affiliated Ontario Health Teams interacting with the Southeast partners
- Represents Southeast Organizations at relevant clinical forums provincially, nationally and internationally
- Promotes an environment of engagement between physicians, nurses, allied health practice, staff, hospital executive teams and project leadership
- Ensures knowledge is distributed and communicated across all Southeast Organizations through ongoing engagement with Clinical leads identified at from regional clinical committees

**Project/Program Execution**:

- Ensure Local Interprofessional Practice leaders are engaged and continuously provided with updates to support order set updates, timelines, and approvals
- Work closely with Clinical leaders on re