Epic Clinical Content Specialist

Children's National Medical Center; Silver Spring (MD); On-site; USD 98,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

Children's National Hospital is seeking a Clinical Content Specialist to design, build, and govern clinical content within the Epic EHR. You will collaborate with clinical, operational, and technical teams to drive evidence-based tools and workflows that improve patient care and safety.

You will lead content governance, develop training materials, and support system updates while ensuring alignment with policies and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Epic certification obtained and maintained within 6 weeks of training.
• Bachelor's degree in clinical or technology-related area required.
• Master's degree preferred in clinical or technology field.
• 5 years of related work experience; 3 years in healthcare/health IT preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads development and maintenance of clinical content in the EHR (order sets, care pathways, templates, CDSS).
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to enable integrated workflows and better user experience.
• Works with training to develop user guides, tip sheets, and training materials.
• Ensures content alignment with policies, regulatory requirements, and standards.
• Supports content governance and version control processes for changes.
• Serves as a subject matter resource for documentation tools and alerts.
• Participates in design, build, testing and maintenance of Epic applications.
• Documents configurations and workflows with clear auditability.
• Contributes to Epic updates and go-live support for new features.
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of Epic functionality and training.
• Leads stakeholder engagement, rounds with clinical teams, gathers feedback.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal

Project Management

Technical

Collaborative

Innovative

Adaptable

Empathetic

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Epic EHR

Job description

Kids Are Our Everything.

1 Inventa PlaceSilver Spring, MD 20910

Department

10014 Clinical Informatics

Pay Range

$97,947.20 - $163,238.40

The Clinical Content Specialist role is part of the Digital Health team. The team member will help design, build, implement and manage the Healthy Planet app. The Clinical Content Specialist plays a key role in the creation and governance of workflows and evidence-based tools within the Epic electronic health record that enhance patient care quality, safety, and efficiency. In this role, you will collaborate with clinical, operational, and technical stakeholders to drive the development and continuous improvement of clinical content aligned with organizational policies, regulatory standards, and best practices. You will ensure that clinical content – such as order sets and care pathways, documentation templates, population health tools, patient screeners and education materials, alerts and other clinical decision support tools – are both meaningful and impactful. In close partnership with clinical informatics and Epic analyst teams, you will help design and optimize the EHR to support clinicians at the point of care and improve the overall patient and family experience.

Join us in making a lasting impact and help our patients Grow Up Stronger.

Minimum Education

Bachelor's Degree Degree in clinical or technology relevant area (e.g. public health, research, health care administration, bioinformatics, engineering, or related field). (Required)

Master's Degree Degree in clinical or technology relevant area (e.g. public health, research, health care administration, bioinformatics, engineering, or related field). (Preferred)

Minimum Work Experience

5 years At least 5 years of related work experience, such as project management, information technology, quality assurance, process improvement, education, or communications. (Required)

3 years At least 3 years of health care delivery, health care operations, public health, or health information technology work experience. Experience with Epic EHR advantageous. (Preferred)

Required Skills/Knowledge

• Communication: Excellent presentation and communication skills, adept at conveying complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences and translating clinical and operational requirements to technical audiences.
• Interpersonal: Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams and build strong relationships with clinical, operational, administrative, and technical stakeholders and leaders across clinical departments and business units.
• Project Management: Strong project management skills, capable of handling multiple initiatives simultaneously, including overseeing successful and fast-paced implementations of enterprise software including the electronic health record (EHR).
• Technical: Strong expertise in health information technology, including electronic health records and related systems. Familiarity with cross-venue clinical workflows and health care operations, including revenue cycle, analytics, and other business processes. Knowledge of quality improvement and process improvement methodologies and health information and health care regulations and laws. Proficiency in user-centered design principles, human factors engineering, usability testing, and software development life cycle.
• Committed: Unwavening dedication to the vision for enterprise Information Services in service of our mission and core values.
• Collaborative: Strong team player with a collaborative approach to problem-solving and leadership.
• Innovative: Ability to think creatively and develop forward-thinking training solutions and models.
• Adaptable: Flexible and able to navigate complex and rapidly changing priorities and environments.
• Empathetic: Understanding of challenges faced by healthcare professionals and staff and commitment to supporting their success.

Required Licenses and Certifications

This position requires that the appropriate Epic certification be successfully obtained and maintained for the assigned area of responsibility within 6 weeks of completing training, if not obtained prior to hire. 180 Days (Required)

Functional Accountabilities

Clinical Content Management

• Leads the development and maintenance of clinical content in the EHR in assigned domains, such as order sets and care pathways, documentation templates, population health tools, patient screeners and education materials, alerts and other clinical decision support tools. Independently manages build and testing.

• Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to enable integrated workflows, optimize system use, and improve the overall user experience for clinical and patient care staff.

• Collaborates with training team to advise on education and communication strategy, helping develop user guides, tip sheets, and training materials to promote effective use of clinical systems.

• Ensures clinical content alignment with clinical practice, organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and clinical informatics and digital health standards and best practices.

• Supports content governance and version control processes to manage change in a structured manner.

• Serves as a subject matter resource for clinical content such as documentation tools, clinical decision support alerts, and population health features.

System Build and Maintenance

• Participates in the design, build, testing, validation, and maintenance of assigned Epic applications, ensuring system functionality aligns with clinical workflows and operational needs.

• Documents system configurations, workflows, and support activities, ensuring compliance with change management and documentation standards, with an emphasis on clarity, versioning, and auditability.

• Contributes to Epic software updates and optimizations, including testing, documentation, and go-live support for new features, upgrades, and enhancements.

• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of Epic functionality, workflows, and integration points, and actively participates in new version training and certification maintenance.

Customer Service Excellence

• Proactively leads stakeholder engagement activities, including rounding with clinical teams, gathering feedback, and identifying opportunities for content and workflow enhancements.

• Provides second-level support for clinical users, troubleshooting complex issues, escalating intractable problems, and leading root cause analysis to ensure timely resolution.

• Responds to support requests within designated timeframes, prioritizing based on clinical impact and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure resolution.

• Contributes to change management strategy and proactive planning, advocating for user needs and helping facilitate smooth transitions during system changes or workflow redesigns.

Organizational Support

• Partners with IS and clinical departments to ensure system stability, data integrity, and alignment with organizational goals and clinical best practices.

• Contributes to clinical informatics and digital health projects, offering insights into content strategy and implementation.

The disclosed salary range includes the minimum and maximum rates within which Children's National believes an individual's base pay rate will fall for this position. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the maximum of the pay range. The exact pay rate for this position will be based on a variety of factors in alignment with the Children's National compensation philosophy. These factors are legitimate and non-discriminatory including, but not limited to, the current market conditions; organizational needs; the individual's combination of prior work experience, level of education, knowledge, skills, and other qualifications. Children's National is committed to providing a fair and competitive total rewards package to each of our employees. This base salary range does not include our comprehensive benefits package or any additional compensation for which this position may be eligible.

Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The "Know Your Rights" poster is available here: and the pay transparency policy is available here:Know Your RightsPay Transparency Nondiscrimination Poster.

Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a "drug-free" work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children's National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.