Practice Leader -CVH Clinical Informatics

Trillium Health Partners; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 102,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Trillium Health Partners is seeking a Clinical Informatics Practice Leader to guide the hospital information systems design, build, implementation and evaluation with an emphasis on patient safety and care quality. You will lead interprofessional teams, contribute to TPHC’s Plan to 2030, and champion evidence‑based clinical informatics concepts across the organization.

The role requires strong clinical background, change leadership and expertise in health informatics.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of clinical experience.
• Demonstrated change leadership experience in practice or process harmonization.
• Systems understanding of workflows and HIS.
• Experience in clinical informatics or knowledge of Epic is an asset.
• Master’s degree in nursing or allied health informatics preferred.
• LEAN/Human Centered Design certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Be an ambassador of practice decisions and guiding principles established for HIS.
• Lead policy/procedure development and standards of practice.
• Lead quality improvement initiatives to improve patient outcomes by system design changes.
• Assess operational readiness for change and provide mitigation recommendations.
• Use clinical informatics methods for requirements gathering, design, build, testing, and implementation.
• Apply human factors and ergonomics to system and device design.
• Lead meetings with senior clinicians and analysts to support evidence-based decision making.
• Support adoption and optimization of the EHR applications assigned.
• Partner with clinical teams to re-engineer workflows for positive patient outcomes.
• Document current and future workflows with evidence-based clinical knowledge.

Skills

Clinical experience

Change management

Leadership

EHR design

Education & training

Interprofessional collaboration

Education

Master's degree in nursing or health informatics

Tools

Epic software

Job description

Position: Clinical Informatics Practice Leader

Posting ID: 8488

Dept: Clinical System and Informatics

Status: Permanent Full Time

Role Level: PG11 ($ 48.85hr- $ 61.06hr)

Site: 2085 Hurontario St.

Posted: September 2-2026

Internal Deadline: September 11-2026

Trillium Health Partners is one of Canada’s largest community-based teaching hospitals, serving the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto, and surrounding communities through the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital, the Queensway Health Centre, the Reactivation care Centre (Church Site) and the new THP-UHN Reactivation Care Centre. Guided by our values of compassion, excellence, and courage, and through our strategic roadmap, Plan to 2030 , we are creating a new kind of health care - defined not by illness, but by the health and well-being of people and communities.

The Position

As the clinical interface representing operations, the Clinical Informatics Practice Leader (CIPL) provides leadership and uses clinical experience and expertise to inform, advise, and guide the hospital information system and related technologies design, build, implementation, and evaluation. By integrating leading practices and principles of health informatics, the CIPL will primarily support patient care services and enabling teams by providing an integrated knowledge base of system design and build concepts to support the continuum of care. Serving as a change ambassador and champion, this role leads critical dialogue and knowledge transfer of systems design to inform changes to clinical practice for user efficiency, patient safety and quality of care. This role will play an integral part in defining and assessing clinical informatics competencies and change management needs for uptake in clinical practice as a member of the interprofessional team.

• Coordination and leadership of practice and process re-design
• Supporting policy/procedures and standards of practice
• Participate in safety escalations, incident review and analysis
• Alignment to clinical quality measures
• Practice environment readiness
• Practice advisory (technical & leading practices)
• User impact analysis
• Cross-applications, multi-service, and inter-systems advisory
• Simulation and educational design and delivery
• Business continuity planning

Here’s What You Will Get To Do

• Be an ambassador of the practice decisions and guiding principles established for HIS.
• Support the development and revisions of applicable policies and standards of practice to support the correct use of advanced clinical systems in practice.
• Lead quality improvement initiatives to support patient outcomes that include modifying system design.
• Support the adoption of key quality metrics as identified by THP.
• Assess operational readiness for change and provide recommendations on mitigation strategies when necessary.
• Use Clinical Informatics methodology and best practices in system requirements gathering, design, build, user acceptance, evaluation and implementation.
• Apply human factors and ergonomics sciences to the design of systems and devices.
• Lead and facilitate meetings with senior clinicians, clinical subject matter experts, business and clinical application analysts through project-based work and by developing tools and systems to support end users’ ongoing needs for evidence-based, standards, and data-driven decision making.
• Use your clinical background and subject matter expert experience to benefit the build and support of the EHR application(s) assigned.
• Partner with clinical and OneTHP team members in evaluating the current state of technologies, processes and workflows that impact clinical users and provide recommendations that re-engineer business processes to ensure achievement of positive patient outcomes.
• Facilitate the documentation of workflows, both current and future, to incorporate evidence-based clinical knowledge into the design of the clinical information system and support platforms/applications.
• Provide input into implementation, change management, communication and education planning for interprofessional health staff on the integrated use of advanced clinical systems.
• Provide and apply Project Management and Change Management methodology to projects.
• Be a change champion and practice transition support leader.
• Be an active participant in professional practice committees to advance the culture of clinical informatics competency in the organization.
• Facilitate optimization efforts by leading request triaging and prioritization strategy

What You Need

• Demonstrated recent change leadership experience involving practice or process harmonization.
• Demonstrates a systems understanding of the workflows.
• Minimum 5 years of Clinical experience.
• Previous experience in clinical informatics is preferred.
• Good understanding of the HIS is an asset, previous Epic experience is an asset
• Epic Certification is an asset.
• Current registration in good standing with a Regulated Health Professions College preferred.
• Master’s degree in nursing or allied equivalent or health informatics preferred.
• Knowledge and training in adult education and/or demonstrated skill in teaching/facilitating preferred.
• LEAN/Human Centered Design certified preferred.
• Able to lead cross-functional teams and influence without direct supervisory authority.
• Demonstrated knowledge of developing, implementing and revising policies, analyzing workflows, and making departmental or system-wide improvements in practice.
• Quality improvement motivated.
• Advanced computer skills required.
• Demonstrated success in working in a dynamic, fast-paced work environment and be results-oriented.

Candidates are selected on the basis of their skill, ability, experience and qualifications. Where these factors are relatively equal seniority shall govern providing the successful applicant.

Trillium Health Partners’ (THP) is an equal opportunity employer who values the importance of antiracism work and is committed to integrating antiracism, diversity, equity and inclusion best practices throughout THP operations, policies and culture. Therefore, we ask that even if you do not see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on this posting, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown that candidates from underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We encourage all applicants who are members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the Ontario Human Rights Code based on race, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nations, Métis or Inuk/Inuit person to consider this opportunity.

In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code Trillium Health Partners will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process to applicants with disabilities. If selected to participate in the recruitment and selection process, please inform Human Resources of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require in respect of any materials or processes used to ensure your equal participation.

Our organization may use automated tools, including artificial intelligence (AI) or algorithm-assisted systems, to support the initial review of applications. These tools are used only to assist our recruiters and hiring managers; all hiring decisions include meaningful human involvement and final review.

All personal information is collected under the authority of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

Trillium Health Partners is identified under the French Language Services Act.

About Us

Trillium Health Partners is one of Canada’s largest community-based teaching hospitals. Our team of more than 17,000 people serves the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, west Toronto, and surrounding communities through the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital, the Queensway Health Centre, and nine satellite locations. Guided by our values of compassion, excellence, and courage, and through our strategic roadmap, Plan to 2030 , we are creating a new kind of health care - defined not by illness, but by the health and well-being of people and communities.