Oncology Clinical Informatics Lead
Req ID: 189270
Location: Provincial Zone, Hybrid Work Schedule
Department: CANC Clinical and Operational Support
Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100%) x 1
Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 1-Dec-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.
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About the Opportunity
The Oncology Clinical Informatics Lead has a fundamental role in the success of the complex Oncology Transformation Project. Their provision of critical consultative leadership, clinical informatics expertise, planning, and direction at the 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 Oncology Clinical Informatics Lead will support an interprofessional team and numerous working groups responsible for the development and implementation of governance, evidence informed best practice and standardization within the Cancer Care Program.
The Oncology Clinical Informatics Lead acts as a subject matter expert, as well as providing structure/framework, project management support for working groups, initiatives, and projects.
The Oncology Clinical Informatics Lead is responsible for providing oversight for the development of oncology standards to support the implementation of the oncology clinical information system. The Oncology Clinical Informatics lead co-ordinates clinical care process design and reviews activities across the program to ensure maximum benefits and enhancements are achieved.
The Oncology 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 related to oncology practices and processes. 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 program
- 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 maybe given to those with appropriate training and work experience
- 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 implementation of evidence-based practice in a clinical setting
- Demonstrated leadership in clinical and policy change
- Broad knowledge of clinical process, workflows, clinical services delivery, and patient/client satisfaction determinants
- Demonstrated clinical informatics expertise with the ability to apply systems and critical thinking
- Demonstrated ability to utilize current computer applications (Microsoft Office, etc.) and computerized health care applications
- Demonstrated knowledge of Lean or related process improvement principles
- Project Management and change management certification would be considered an asset
- Valid Nova Scotia driver's license with access to a reliable vehicle
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.
Hours
- Temporary Full-time Position; 75 hours bi-weekly
- Approximately 18 months
- Some travel within the province is required
- Position will require work on weekends and holidays. Standby (on-call) is also required
Compensation and Benefits
$40.15 - $50.19 Hourly
Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.
Once You've Applied
Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Some opportunities may be eligible for our Employee Referral Program. If a Nova Scotia Health employee refers a candidate who is not working for the organization and the candidate is hired, the employee who made the referral may be eligible to earn up to $1000. For more details and instructions, please visit Recruitment - Incentives
Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.