Senior Advisor - Clinical Informatics

Alberta Health Services; Calgary; Remote; CAD 53,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

Alberta Health Services is seeking a senior Clinical Informatician to advance Connect Care content, workflows and clinical systems. You will collaborate with clinicians and CSI teams to design, test and implement clinical content improvements and governance across Connect Care.

The role emphasizes change management, knowledge translation and leadership in a fast paced health system, with remote work within Alberta and a 1.00 FTE commitment.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree required; clinical background strongly encouraged.
• Minimum 5 years of progressively more responsible roles in clinical informatics with direct provision of healthcare.
• Experience working with practicing clinicians in an informatics capacity and strong understanding of healthcare delivery.

Responsibilities

• Understand Connect Care user needs and priorities across teams to identify improvement opportunities.
• Co-design and build optimized Connect Care clinical content and workflows with clinicians as practice evolves.
• Inform change management, education and support end users and Digital Health teams.

Skills

Clinical informatics

Healthcare delivery knowledge

Project management

Communication

Education

Undergraduate degree

Tools

MS Office

Visio

SharePoint

Job description

The Clinical Informatician role is a senior professional role reporting to Executive Directors, Directors or Managers in the CMIO office. As a recognized Connect Care expert, a Clinical Informatician applies clinical skill and experience, clinical information system knowledge and systems thinking to identify Connect Care improvement opportunities and to prototype and build improvements to Connect Care clinical content and workflows. Clinical Informaticians work closely with multidisciplinary clinical and technical Clinical System Improvement (CSI) teams and Connect Care governance structures. Clinical Informaticians work within the Clinical Informatics Program. Informaticians in these roles use their knowledge of clinical system design, health care delivery systems, evaluation and process improvement to develop and maintain the clinical architecture framework and clinical content standards for Connect Care. They also support the effective operation of other improvement, quality, clinical operations, and prescriber committees/structures where impacts to clinical systems are involved. As recognized Connect Care and clinical system improvement experts, Informaticians apply high degrees of resourcefulness, insight and independent judgement to determine and represent the unique and complex issues associated with supporting both strategic and operational priorities. Working in a fast-paced and demanding environment, they can evaluate and resolve clinically and/or organizationally sensitive issues that may have considerable impact to healthcare service delivery. Finally, as a member of an emerging discipline, ideal candidates will demonstrate deep commitment to process development and improvement, including creative problem solving and a commitment to knowledge translation and sharing, coaching and leadership responsibilities.

Description:

Clinical Informaticians are change agents who work closely with clinicians, prescribers and other staff to understand their clinical needs and co-design improvements in clinical workflow, content and build within Connect Care. In this process, Clinical Informaticians leverage their skills in knowledge translation, clinical system design and their knowledge of clinical workflows, adoption and change management. More specifically, key functions include:

Key Functions:

• Understand Connect Care user needs and priorities. Working across teams and initiatives within the health system entities (e.g. CSI teams, Connect Care governance structures, quality improvement teams, patient safety), Clinical Informaticians identify Connect Care improvement opportunities, develop comprehensive improvement plans and support the overall prioritization of the work.
• Build optimized Connect Care clinical content. Clinical Informaticians collaborate with clinicians to co-design Connect Care clinical content and workflows and improvements as user needs change, clinical practice evolves, and improvement priorities emerge. This work requires the Informatician to use their extensive knowledge and expertise to synthesize evidence-based clinical knowledge and guidance (including external references) to design and build clinically appropriate and accurate content that supports optimized workflows.
• Inform change management and user education and support changes. Improvements to Connect Care clinical content, workflows and build trigger the need to communicate changes to end users and the Digital Health teams that support them.

• Transition Company: Health Shared Services
• Union: Exempt
• Unit and Program: Chief Medical Information Office
• Primary Location: Southport Tower
• Location Details: Eligible to work remotely within Alberta
• Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 02-OCT-2026
• Date Available: 12-OCT-2026
• Temporary End Date: 08-NOV-2027
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 10
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
• Minimum Salary: $38.73
• Maximum Salary: $66.42
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

• Transition Company: Health Shared Services
• Classification: IT Proc/Chng&Rel Mgmt Srv Lev4
• Union: Exempt
• Unit and Program: Chief Medical Information Office
• Primary Location: Southport Tower
• Location Details: Eligible to work remote within Alberta
• Negotiable Location: Provincial
• Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 02-OCT-2026
• Date Available: 12-OCT-2026
• Temporary End Date: 08-NOV-2027
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 10
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
• Minimum Salary: $38.73
• Maximum Salary: $66.42
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:

Undergraduate degree required; clinical background required strongly encouraged.

• A minimum of 5 years of progressively more responsible roles in clinical informatics.
• Direct provision of healthcare in a clinical role.
• Directly working with practicing clinicians in an informatics capacity, with a strong working knowledge and intimate understanding of healthcare delivery.

Additional Required Qualifications:

Demonstrated understanding of clinical best practice, quality improvement frameworks and clinical system design best practices.

• Detail oriented with a demonstrated ability to probe for information in order to fully understand the underlying clinical needs.
• A commitment to service excellence and demonstrated success in working with clinical teams to improve processes and outcomes.
• Ability to work in a virtual team environment to build and maintain positive working relationships.
• Ability to lead complex discussions and negotiate solutions.
• Proven project management skills (ability to lead meetings, prioritize, resolve conflicts, maintain issues list, manage project plan).
• Competence in the use of standard office tools and technologies, including MS Office, Visio, Sharepoint etc.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of the Alberta health system.
• Strong time management skills and the ability to meet project deadlines are essential.
• Strong communication and follow-up skills.
• Experience mentoring and supporting junior staff.
• A demonstrated clear pattern of professional and personal development.
• Self-motivated with little supervision required.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. More than 5 years of progressively more responsible roles in health informatics.
2. CPHIMS Certification an asset.
3. Epic certification or proficiency or completion of the Epic Clinician Builder Program.
4. Prosci Certification.

Please note:

All postings close at 23:59 MT of the postingend date indicated.

Security Screening:

A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.

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