Clinical Informatics Specialist

Overview:
Join a hospital where everyone makes a difference Cambridge Memorial Hospital (CMH) is a thriving community hospital that proudly provides acute care services including: Emergency, Surgery, Medicine, Women’s and Children’s Health, Intensive Care, Mental Health, and Inpatient Rehabilitation.

Our vision is to **_creating healthier communities together_** Our dedicated and skilled staff are passionate about providing outstanding patient-centred care, and an exceptional patient experience to residents of the Waterloo Region and beyond.
- Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)
- Group Benefits, including Health & Dental, for full time employees
- Employee & Family Assistance Program
- Career Development & Education Grant
- Wellness & Wellbeing Program
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives

**Job Description**:
**Salary**:$48.71 - $57.99

**Job Summary**:
Clinical Informatics Specialists transform healthcare by analyzing, designing, implementing and evaluating information and communication systems that enhance individual and population health outcomes, improve patient care, and strengthen the clinician-patient relationship. The Clinical Informatics Specialist collaborates closely with the Information Technology Department, Clinical Programs, Professional Practice, Health Records, Quality and Risk, and vendors, to translate clinical needs into technical solutions.

Reporting to the Director of Professional Practice and Clinical Informatics, the Clinical Informatics Specialist is a clinician with specialty knowledge in informatics who will lead digital health initiatives by successfully building inter-professional collaborations across programs in partnership with healthcare clinicians and Information Technology professionals to ensure adoption and sustained utilization of high-quality hospital information systems.

**Responsibilities**:
The Clinical Informatics Specialist possesses strong leadership skills to successfully liaise and collaborate with other health care providers, translate business needs into technical solutions, and leads in the transformation of clinical processes and workflows.

With the skill, knowledge and judgement from the diverse domains within healthcare, business and information technology, the Clinical Informatics Specialist effectively participates in the procurement and development of hospital information systems and leads customization, workflow redesign, and people and process change management ensuring successful implementation, optimal adoption, user proficiency and sustained utilization. Further to these responsibilities, oversight of quality management is required to ensure quality data and realization of the technologies' value propositions.

The Clinical Informatics Specialist applies project management skills to successfully monitor scope, timelines, deliverables, and user expectations. They are skilled at monitoring scope creep while being receptive to high priority opportunities. In addition, they recognize, record, mitigate, and manage risks throughout the project lifecycle.

This role will assist in ensuring that new clinical documentation technology is used appropriately, established technical and quality standards are followed, solutions are cost effective, and the information needs of clients are met. This position contributes to ensuring there is a safe environment for patients, staff and visitors.

Responsibilities also include the development and updating of policies and procedures pertaining to the use of clinical information systems.

**Skills and Qualifications**

**Education Requirements**:

- Regulated Health Professional with current registration/certificate of competence with applicable professional college required
- Bachelor’s degree in a Clinical/Health Informatics field required.
- Master’s degree in a clinical/Health Informatics/Technology/Business field preferred
- Certification in Clinical Informatics, Project Management, Change Management considered an asset

**Experience Requirements**:

- At least 5 years’ progressive clinical experience
- At least 3 years’ experience in a clinical informatics or related technology role

**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities**:

- Highly effective communication skills utilizing established practices with excellent written and verbal skills
- Solid understanding of the healthcare system and hospital sector
- Highly effective collaborator and facilitator
- Demonstrated understanding of how clinical requirements can translate into a technical solution
- Demonstrated ability to research and assimilate a large quantity of diverse information
- Knowledge of relational databases, database management and data schemes
- Evaluation, quality management and continuous quality improvement experience
- Understanding of marketing principles and commitment to customer service
- Proficient organizational, time management and critical thinking skills with the ability to effectively problem solve
- Proficient in Micr