Clinical Content Specialist, Perinatal, BORN Ontario - Permanent Full-Time (1.0)

Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CHEO seeks a Clinical Content Specialist in Perinatal Health to provide clinical leadership and translate evidence into practice across Ontario. This role partners with clinicians, researchers, and health system leaders to improve maternal and newborn outcomes.

Responsibilities include shaping priorities, monitoring evidence, guiding quality initiatives, and translating data into actionable tools and policies, with a focus on knowledge translation and partnerships.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related health discipline.
• Professional clinical designation required.
• Minimum five years in perinatal care.
• Knowledge of Ontario health systems and perinatal databases.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving and facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development and implementation of perinatal health priorities and strategic initiatives.
• Provide clinical expertise on maternal and newborn health, especially labour, birth and postpartum.
• Monitor emerging evidence, guidelines, and standards in perinatal care.
• Identify care quality issues and opportunities for system improvement.
• Collaborate with medical and scientific leaders to guide projects and partnerships.
• Translate clinical data into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Develop meaningful indicators, reports, dashboards, and measures with analytics teams.
• Support quality improvement initiatives using data to improve practice and outcomes.
• Interpret trends in outcomes, service use and health equity; evaluate impact.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Presentation skills

Written communication

Analytical skills

Facilitation skills

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in health discipline

Professional clinical designation

Tools

MS Office

Job description

POSITION SUMMARY

Are you passionate about improving outcomes for pregnant individuals, newborns, and families? Do you want to help shape the future of perinatal care in Ontario by turning clinical expertise and data into meaningful action at a system level? Join BORN Ontario and help drive the insights, quality improvement initiatives, and partnerships that shape perinatal care across Ontario.

BORN Ontario is looking for a Clinical Content Specialist in Perinatal Health to provide clinical leadership and expertise in maternal and newborn health. This role helps ensure that BORN's work is grounded in current clinical practice, emerging evidence, and the needs of the Ontario perinatal health system.

The Clinical Content Specialist brings deep knowledge of perinatal care, including prenatal care, labour and birth, and the immediate postpartum period. They identify emerging issues, quality improvement opportunities, and changes in clinical practice, and help translate this knowledge into meaningful action through BORN's programs, data, research, and partnerships.

Working closely with clinicians, researchers, health system leaders, policymakers, and internal teams, the Clinical Content Specialist helps connect clinical practice, data, and evidence to improve care and outcomes across Ontario.

The role serves as a trusted clinical advisor and helps ensure that BORN's data collection, reporting, analysis, and knowledge translation activities remain relevant, accurate, and impactful.

The Clinical Content Specialist will be successful by: Identifying emerging issues and opportunities in perinatal health and helping shape BORN's priorities and strategy.

Connecting clinical expertise with data and evidence to identify opportunities for improvement.

Working with hospitals, providers, regional networks, advisory groups, and health system partners to influence practice, policy, and quality improvement.

Helping turn data into actionable insights that support better outcomes for patients and families.

Building strong partnerships that lead to measurable improvements in maternal and newborn health, experiences of care, and health system performance.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute to the development and implementation of BORN Ontario's perinatal health priorities and strategic initiatives.
• Provide clinical expertise and guidance on maternal and newborn health, particularly labour, birth, and the postpartum period.
• Monitor emerging evidence, clinical guidelines, standards of practice, and innovations in perinatal care.
• Identify quality of care issues, practice variation, patient safety concerns, and opportunities for system improvement.
• Collaborate with BORN's Medical Advisors and Scientific Directors to provide clinical leadership for projects and partnerships.
• Help identify opportunities where clinical expertise and data can be used to improve health outcomes.
• Provide clinical input into the interpretation and use of BORN Ontario data and reporting products.
• Work with analytics teams to develop meaningful indicators, reports, dashboards, and measures.
• Support quality improvement initiatives that use data to improve clinical practice and patient outcomes.
• Interpret trends and patterns in outcomes, service use, health equity, and quality of care.
• Partner with analytical experts to evaluate the impact of quality improvement initiatives and system changes.
• Work with BORN's Knowledge Translation team to translate evidence and data into practical tools, resources, recommendations, and guidance.
• Support knowledge sharing among clinicians, hospitals, regional networks, professional associations, and health system partners.
• Build strong relationships with clinical leaders, care providers, researchers, government representatives, and other partners.
• Lead or support advisory groups, working groups, communities of practice, and expert panels.
• Present findings, recommendations, and emerging issues to clinical, executive, and policy audiences.
• Provide clinical guidance related to perinatal health data definitions, indicators, standards, and data quality initiatives.
• Support the clinical relevance and accuracy of BORN's reports, publications, educational materials, and knowledge translation products.
• Identify gaps in data, evidence, or system performance and recommend solutions.
• Apply knowledge of clinical workflows and electronic medical records to support data collection and system improvement efforts.
• Support the use of BORN data and evidence in research, evaluation, and policy development.
• Participate in and support relevant research initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to use new evidence, technologies, and innovative approaches to improve care and outcomes.
• Contribute to evaluations of provincial programs and system-wide initiatives affecting maternal and newborn health.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning, quality improvement, evaluation, and evidence-informed decision-making.
• Perform other duties as required.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in a related health discipline (Essential)
• Professional clinical designation (Essential)
• Minimum five (5) years’ experience in perinatal care (Essential)
• Proven related (perinatal/maternal newborn) research experience (Preferred)
• Experience and knowledge of health systems, and healthcare delivery in Ontario (Essential)
• Demonstrate knowledge regarding new trends in clinical practice and information systems (Essential)
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with diverse partners, including health-care providers, community organizations, and people with lived experience (Essential)
• Demonstrates exceptional project and change management skills, methodologies and principles (Essential)
• Knowledge and experience in perinatal databases, data analysis, academic and published literature, data collection for quality improvement or research, and indicator reporting (Essential)
• Comprehensively use computer technology and equipment; proficiency in MS Office suite (Essential)
• Demonstrates exceptional analytical, problem-solving and facilitation skills (Essential)
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal, presentation, oral and written skills (Essential)
• Demonstrates a growth mindset and commitment to continuous improvement (Essential)
• Contributes to a positive work environment and high performing team standards (Essential)
• Demonstrates understanding of engagement principles and practices, particularly in health care or public health settings (Preferred)
• Criminal Record Check (Level 1) (Essential)
• Bilingualism (French/English) (Preferred)
• Effective March 29, 2021, CHEO will conduct a more comprehensive pre-screening and evaluation process. This process may include more varied and multidimensional testing such as a written test, practical exam, or other assessment. All candidates who meet the essential and preferred qualifications may be tested.

CHEO values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment, starting with the hiring process and welcome interest from all qualified applicants.

Should you require accommodation during any phase in the recruitment process, please contact Human Resources at [e-mail]. All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential and will be handled in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.

A career at CHEO provides a: competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package unique culture that fosters dedication, communication, respect and teamwork place where your opinions will be respected, contributions valued and your initiatives rewarded family-friendly environment that supports you and your own family, as well as the children, youth and families we serve chance to grow — personally and professionally — through our comprehensive orientation program and on-the-job learning support for continued education and learning potential for a relocation reimbursement benefit truly unique work environment

CHEO continues to be selected by local, national and international competitions showcasing employers who lead their sector in offering exceptional workplaces for their employees. For the eleventh time, CHEO has been recognized as one of the National Capital Region’s Top Employers. We are among a select group of organizations at the forefront of their respective industries who offer exceptional places to work. We were given this honour based on our outstanding: workplace atmosphere benefits employee communications training and skills development community involvement