Laboratory Consultant

Management Consultants with Experience Level 1 are Consultants that can demonstrate in their submitted examples that they have led multi-discipline teams in strategic or complex initiatives to improve performance of an organization through analysis of existing business problems and development of future plans from conception to final implementation, including at least five years experience working with senior executive management levels within a government body such as Deputy Ministers, Assistant Deputy Ministers and Government Chief Information Officers and that they reported to an executive manager or senior manager within an organization, managed effective working relationships with managers up to and including executive level, and/or had individuals performing functions at a management level or senior technical level reporting directly to them.

**The Management Consultant at Experience Level 1 has the following skill set**:
a) leadership of teams in consensus building with members from across public sector organizations such as ministries, agencies, authorities, crown corporations and other public entities as appropriate to the Experience Level;
b) development of legislation frameworks and legislation;
c) creating, identifying and articulating strategic objectives;
d) translating objectives into business plans;
e) developing cross-organizational objectives;
f) documenting and formalizing agreements into memoranda of understanding or memoranda of agreement;
g) identification and linkage of service outcomes of one organization or groups of organizations into an integrated service delivery model;
h) identification and implementation of organizational and functional design changes;
i) articulation and development of governance alternatives;
j) articulation, development and promotion of service delivery models, including citizen centric service delivery models;
k) facilitation of planning for cultural change;
l) investment portfolio analysis and executive decision consultation;
m) transition planning; and
n) preparation of reports such as Treasury Board Submissions.

**The Laboratory Consultant requires the following experience/skills**:

- Minimum 5+ years experience establishing laboratory CPOE workflows in ambulatory care and acute care settings with Cerner EMR solutions; heavy emphasis on experience in implementing workflows that occur outside of the laboratory department.
- A broad knowledge level of healthcare Information Technology (IT) principles, best practices, and an in[1]depth understanding of lab workflows to complete moderate to highly complex and multi-faceted assignments.
- Strong experience with defining future state laboratory CPOE workflows throughout the full laboratory lifecycle, with particular focus on pre and post analytic phases.
- Involvement with large scale EMR implementations in fast paced environments.
- Experience driving transformational changes in healthcare environments working closely with physicians, nurses, clerks, ancillary department staff, and other key partners.
- Experience translating future state workflows to Cerner system designs.
- Familiar with change management/incident management processes.
- Proven ability to lead transformation within highly complex EMR implementation projects. Proven history of coordinating in a team-based project to produce high quality deliverables.
- Providing expert consultative guidance and direction on change initiatives, effectively dedicating time across more than one project, and meeting established deadlines.
- Strong awareness of common problems associated with implementation of lab CPOE workflows and leveraging this experience to create future state workflows that avoid problems to ensure high levels of user satisfaction.
- Demonstrated high energy levels and tolerance of tight deadlines, time pressures, and ambiguity. Ability to work independently with mínimal direction.
- Demonstrated effective communicator for purposes of interpersonal relations to understand and identify project needs and overall objectives.
- Experience in large scale, fast faced healthcare environments.
- Strong Knowledge Cerner Power Chart and related functionality that supports Laboratory CPOE.
- Cerner certifications considered an asset but not required.

Pay: $65.00-$75.00 per hour

Work Location: On the road