Clinical Informatics Lead

**Req ID**:174313**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location**:Western** Zone, **Valley Regional Hospital**
**Department**:OPOR DIR CCIO Clinical Informatics**
**Type of Employment**:Permanent** **Hourly FT** (**100%** FTE) x **1** position(s)**
**Status**:Management/Non Union** P**osition**
**Posting Closing Date**:9-Apr-24**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators and creative thinkers today.

**About the Opportunity**:
The Clinical Informatics Lead has a fundamental role in the success of this complex, multi-organizational clinical transformation initiative. Their provision of critical consultative leadership, clinical informatics expertise, planning, and direction at the multi-health authority Program/Specialty Level and with all work streams, will ensure the scale and fundamental nature of clinical transformation required is understood at appropriate leadership levels, the achievement of drivers/goals and the delivery of a well-planned strategy in collaboration with the health organization leaders.

The Clinical Informatics lead is responsible for providing oversight for the development of healthcare standards to support the implementation of clinical information systems. The Clinical Informatics lead co-ordinates clinical care process design and reviews activities across the organization to ensure maximum benefits and enhancements are achieved.

The Clinical Informatics lead independently addresses issues and makes decisions of moderate complexity with little or no supervision and delivers clear communication and documentation of complex concepts and issues across the organizations. This includes:

- leading the analysis and dissemination of best practice standards and content
- clearly communicating both up (sr. leadership) and down (front line staff) across the organization
- facilitating consensus and decision making across broad stakeholder groups
- being organized, outcomes driven, preparing work packages and decision documents for review by stakeholder/working groups
- having the ability to understand and support system level impacts and decisions while narrowing focus to translate and communicate stakeholder impact effectively

**About You**:
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

- Undergraduate degree in technology or health related field. Consideration may be given to those with appropriate training and work experience
- Minimum of 3- 5 years of experience in clinical informatics
- Strong understanding of clinical information/data and how these are managed, used and operationalized within the clinical information system to create knowledge
- Demonstrated knowledge and skill in the implementation of evidence-based practice in a clinical setting
- Demonstrated leadership in clinical and policy change.
- Broad knowledge of the applicable standards of practice and guidelines for clinical practitioners.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Lean or related process improvement principles.
- Project Management and change management certification would be considered an asset
- Experience supporting clinical technology related services in a complex health care organizational environment considered an asset
- Proficient knowledge of healthcare industry; familiarity with clinical and administrative hospital functions and departments preferred
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Excellent verbal, written communication and collaboration skills

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

**Hours**:

- Permanent, Full-time Position; 75 Hours Bi-weekly
- Hybrid work schedule

**Compensation and Incentives**:
$38.79 - $48.48 Hourly

**Once You've Applied**

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

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