Clinical Informatics Specialist

**Competition**:

- 212-25

**Department / Unit**:

- Interprofessional Practice, Quality, & Patient Experience

**Position Type**:

- Temporary Full Time

**Bargaining Unit**:

- Non-Union

**Posting Date**:

- 2025-08-12 12:00

Headwaters Health Care Centre. One Community, Caring Together.

We are a dedicated team of professionals focused on providing the best care possible for our patients, families, and caregivers. We work together to care for the whole person from hospital to home.

We are looking for a **Clinical Informatics Specialist - Expanse** to work with our **Professional Practice** Department to help us continue in our mission to serve our community with Kindness, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork

**Position Responsibilities**:

- The Clinical Informatics Specialist-Expanse is a clinical leader and advocate for Headwater’s Electronic Medical Record, Meditech Expanse. The Clinical Informatics Specialist-Expanse ensures effective adoption, education and optimization of clinical systems across all departments, while also acting as a liaison to the Regional Expanse clinical team and committees.

**Duties Include**:
Local Responsibilities
- Serve as a leader in the implementation and support of Meditech Expanse systems
- Educate, mentor and support multidisciplinary clinical staff to promote optimal system use
- Develop and maintain end user documentation, guides and training materials
- Conduct regular rounds to assess system use and identify improvement opportunities
- Lead change management efforts to support workflow and documentation enhancements
- Support project planning and clinical decision-making using informatics best practices, organizational goals and strategic direction

Regional Responsibilities
- Represent Headwaters at regional Expanse committees and events
- Collaborate with regional partners to support module implementation and optimization
- Provide leadership for specific clinical modules and report on project process
- Build relationships with other Expanse users to share knowledge and insights

**Qualifications**:

- Undergraduate degree in a regulated health-related field required
- Current Registration with the applicable regulatory body in good standing is required.
- Project Management and/or Change Management certification (or equivalent) preferred
- Minimum of five (5) years recent clinical practice experience with demonstrated clinical excellence in acute care required; preference given to Medicine and/or Critical Care experience
- Demonstrated experience with Health Information Systems an asset; previous Meditech implementation experience preferred
- Previous Clinical Nurse Educator or Professional Practice experience preferred
- Proficiency in effective verbal and written communication skills, customer service and interpersonal skills
- Capability to use conflict resolution tools and techniques
- Working knowledge of project management methodologies, tools, and techniques preferred
- Demonstrated ability to manage change and to foster an environment which promotes professional practice.
- Excellent problem solving and analytic skills
- High attention to problem description, detail, and impact
- Independent worker, self-motivated, goal oriented and a life-long learner
- Ability to create a collaborative multidisciplinary working environment which fosters effective staff participation in documentation and workflow excellence

**Hours of Work**: 37.5 hours per week

**Hiring Salary Range**: Compensation is commensurate with experience.
- **The duration of this temporary contract is approximately 12 months

**Why Headwaters?**

Our values are more than words, they are what define and connect us. They determine how we work, how we behave, and how we relate to our patients, their families, and caregivers as well as to everyone who is part of the Headwaters community

We offer a wide range of employee perks, for information on our comprehensive benefits package, please visit **Headwaters Health Care Centre - Careers at Headwaters**

**Extra Information**:

- Headwaters Health Care Centre is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer and supports the compliance of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). If you have a need for an accommodation, please contact Human Resources so that appropriate arrangements can be made._
- Headwaters Health Care Centre is a smoke free facility. Smoking is not permitted on hospital properties. We thank everyone who works at or visits our hospitals for respecting this healthy initiative. We are also a scent-free environment for all employees and visitors._