Informaticist-Clinical-Senior

Default Work Shift:

Day (United States of America)

Hours:

40

Salary range:

$43.05 - $65.40

Schedule:

Full Time

Shift Hours:

8 Hour employee

Department:

Clinical Informatics

Job Objective:

Supports the Medical Staff, Acute Care and Ambulatory Services to enable cost-effective, high quality, efficient and safe patient care. Maintains a thorough understanding of all clinical and operational workflows to provide training and support to all physicians, advanced practice providers and clinicians in the acute care setting. Works collaboratively with the medical staff, clinical and business applications analysts, Nursing educators and informatics, pharmacy leadership and informatics, Quality, Surgical Services, Specialty Services, Legal and Compliance, and the Health Information Management teams to support Eisenhower Health’s goals in providing ideal patient care in the inpatient setting. Support the Information Systems teams when addressing design decisions of moderate to high complexity, implementation of new applications, software upgrades, integrated testing, application maintenance, Epic training and provider support. Mentors Clinical and Healthcare Informaticists in system design, workflow evaluation and integration. Must have strong leadership, implementation, analytical, technical and training skills in supporting physicians, advanced practice providers and clinicians.

Job Description:

Education:
Required: Bachelor’s Degree in relevant clinical field or four (4) additional years of related work experience in lieu of degree
Preferred: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), Master’s degree in Nursing, Master's degree in Informatics

Licensure/Certification:
Required: Certification required in any Epic Clinical application; Certification in Epic Clinical Informatics

Preferred: California Registered Nurse (RN) licensure or related clinical license

Experience:
Required: Five (5) years experience as an Epic Applications Analyst, Epic Trainer, or Clinical Informaticist in healthcare setting

Reports To: Clinical Informatics Director
Supervises: N/A
Ages of Patients: N/A
Blood Borne Pathogens: Minimal/ No Potential

Skills, Knowledge, Abilities:

Ability to maintain positive interpersonal relations with peers, users and vendors, Ability to teach/train other staff, Demonstrated knowledge and experience in PMO methodology and tools, Excellent communication skills, Excellent oral and written skills, Experience with the assigned applications desirable (Epic Certification if applicable), Experience working in an acute healthcare setting or vendor setting, Facilitation skills, strong organizational skills, team building skills, PC Computer skills using MS Office, Internet Browsers, Email

Essential Responsibilities

1. Demonstrates compliance with Code of Conduct and compliance policies, and takes action to resolve compliance questions or concerns and report suspected violations.

2. Mentors and supports professional development of Healthcare and Clinical Informaticists.

3. Serves as senior liaison and escalation point for complex clinical workflow and EHR design issues.

4. Leads highly complex, multi-service clinical system implementations, upgrades, and optimization initiatives.

5. Establishes and enforces enterprise build and workflow standardization in collaboration with operational and analyst teams.

6. Translates regulatory requirements into system design standards and compliance controls.

7.  Develops organizational readiness strategies and structured change management plans.

8. Oversees prioritization of clinical informatics service requests aligned with enterprise strategy.

9.  Leads clinical design sessions and governance workgroups, and establishes documentation and change control governance standards.

10. Represents the department in user groups and organizational forums when designated.

11.  Performs other duties as assigned.