Practice Leader

**Position**:Practice Leader -Clinical Informatics

**Dept.**:Clinical Informatics

**Posting ID: 2926**

**Role Level**:PG11( $46.39hr
- $57.98hr)

**Status**:Temporary Full Time (1 year)

**Site**:2085 Hurontario Street, Mississauga

**Shift**:Day shift

**Posted**:May 23-2025

**Internal Deadline**:May 30-2025

Trillium Health Partners (THP) is one of the largest community-based acute care facilities in Canada. Comprised of the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital and the Queensway Health Centre, Trillium Health Partners serves the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto and surrounding communities and is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.

Our Mission**:A New Kind of Health Care for a Healthier Community**

Our Values**:Compassion, Excellence, Courage**

Our Goals**:Quality, Access, Sustainability**

Our Enablers**:People, Education, Innovation, Research**

The Position:
As the clinical interface representing operations, the Clinical Informatics Practice Leader (CIPL) provides leadership and uses clinical experience and expertise to inform, advise, and guide the hospital information system and related technologies design, build, implementation, and evaluation. By integrating leading practices and principles of health informatics, the CIPL will primarily support patient care services and enabling teams by providing an integrated knowledge base of system design and build concepts to support the continuum of care. Serving as a change ambassador and champion, this role leads critical dialogue and knowledge transfer of systems design to inform changes to clinical practice for user efficiency, patient safety and quality of care. This role will play an integral part in defining and assessing clinical informatics competencies and change management needs for uptake in clinical practice as a member of the interprofessional team.

**Here’s what you will get to do**:

- Be an ambassador of the practice decisions and guiding principles established for HIS.
- Support the development and revisions of applicable policies and standards of practice to support the correct use of advanced clinical systems in practice.
- Lead quality improvement initiatives to support patient outcomes that include modifying system design.
- Support the adoption of key quality metrics as identified by THP.
- Assess operational readiness for change and provide recommendations on mitigation strategies when necessary.
- Use Clinical Informatics methodology and best practices in system requirements gathering, design, build, user acceptance, evaluation and implementation.
- Partner with clinical and OneTHP team members in evaluating the current state of technologies, processes and workflows that impact clinical users and provide recommendations that re-engineer business processes to ensure achievement of positive patient outcomes.
- Provide input into implementation, change management, communication and education planning for interprofessional health staff on the integrated use of advanced clinical systems.
- Be a change champion and practice transition support leader.
- Be an active participant in professional practice committees to advance the culture of clinical informatics competency uptake in the organization.
- Facilitate optimization efforts by leading request triaging and prioritization strategy
- As a CIPL, you will focus on the items below across the continuum of care of the patient journey in all clinical areas:

- Coordination and leadership of practice and process re-design
- Supporting policy/procedures and standards of practice
- Participate in safety escalations, incident review and analysis
- Alignment to clinical quality measures
- Practice environment readiness
- Practice advisory (technical & leading practices)
- User impact analysis
- Simulation and educational design and delivery
- Business continuity planning

**What you need**:

- Demonstrated recent change leadership experience involving practice or process harmonization.
- Demonstrates a systems understanding of the workflows.
- Minimum 5 years of clinical experience.
- Previous experience in clinical informatics is preferred.
- Good understanding of the HIS is an asset, previous Epic experience is an asset
- Epic Certification is an asset.
- Current registration in good standing with a Regulated Health Professions College required.
- Master’s Degree in Nursing or allied equivalent or health informatics preferred.
- Knowledge and training in adult education and/or demonstrated skill in teaching/facilitating preferred.
- LEAN/Human Centered Design certified preferred.
- Able to lead cross-functional teams and influence without direct supervisory authority.
- Demonstrated knowledge of developing, implementing and revising policies, analyzing workflows, and making departmental or system-wide improvements in practice.
- Quality improvement motivated.
- Advanced computer skills required.Demonstrated success in worki