Manager, Informatics

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $59.56 - $85.62 / hour
Job Summary

Position Highlights

 

As a Manager, Informatics you will support the Community, Primary Care and Ambulatory portfolio, specifically supporting Population and Public Health, Toxic Drug Response and Priority Populations, as well as the Mental Health and Substance Use program areas. Bring your expertise, passion to motivate, and inspire others as the catalyst that will shape an environment for clinical and service excellence.

 

Additionally in this role, you will build on your education and career experience as you:

• Provide leadership in the development of health and corporate information systems and applications including identifying opportunities to move to electronic information capture and distribution, maintaining a multi-departmental authority-wide view of systems to support the adoption of health and corporate information systems.
• Plan and manage the support of the evolution and adoption of health and clinical/corporate information systems projects and leads strategies to reduce dependence on paper-based personal health and corporate records.
• Develop and maintain the processes necessary to facilitate care provider and employee access to electronic health and corporate information systems, applications and tools.
• Work collaboratively as a member of the Informatics leadership team by functioning as part of a coordinated effort to move forward the health and clinical/corporate information management agenda of FH and by promoting and adopting best practice models for service delivery.
• Work with business process leaders in financial, corporate, and clinical areas to identify current workflow processes and opportunities for improvement through the effective use of information systems and technologies.
• Identify innovative approaches for information capture, storage, and retrieval and ensure that standards related to the management of personal health, employee or corporate information are maintained and enhanced.
• Accountable for project priorities for the health authority and ensures that projects are executed in accordance with FH project management standards and that necessary project resources are in place to ensure successful implementation, in collaboration with assigned business areas.
• Ensure the ongoing management/maintenance of negotiated vendor contracts. Negotiate contracts with vendors, ensure payment schedule is distributed, and vendor is upholding contract provisions.
• Manage assigned staff by selecting employees, directing, supervising, and evaluating staff to ensure effective performance of duties, promoting, disciplining and initiating employee terminations.
• Ensure the implementation of correct human resource standards and procedures, including performance evaluation, education, and orientation as well as compliance with applicable acts, regulations and collective agreements.
• Interpret and administer collective agreements, if applicable, covering all bargaining unit employees. Investigate and respond to grievances of a confidential nature. Represent management up to and including Step 3 of the grievance process.
• Attend Third Party Hearings with the representative of the Employer.

We would like you to have:

• Bachelor's Degree in Health Information Management or a related field
• Seven (7) years management experience in a medium to large sized organization working with computerized health information systems
• Experience with acute care electronic health information systems.
• An equivalent combination of education, training and experience is acceptable

Valued benefits

We invite you to apply today and find out why employees recommend Fraser Health to their friends as an exceptional place to work. We are committed to planetary health, we value diversity in the work force and seek to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring and Trust.

 

Detailed Overview

The Manager, Informatics is responsible for providing leadership in the development, implementation and uptake of health informatics, clinical and corporate information systems within Fraser Health (FH).  The Manager, Informatics works with FH Leadership, Corporate, and Clinical Support Services to lead the development and implementation of health and corporate information systems to improve corporate and clinical work processes and patient/employee outcomes.

As a member of the Informatics leadership team, the Manager is part of a coordinated effort to move forward the health, clinical and corporate informatics vision for FH and to work collaboratively with other team members in promoting new technologies and best practice for service delivery.

ResponsibilitiesQualifications

Education and Experience

Bachelor's Degree in Health Information Management or a related field plus seven (7) years management experience in a medium to large sized organization working with computerized health information systems, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.  Experience with acute care electronic health information systems.

Competencies

Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities

• Demonstrated knowledge of health and corporate information systems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, manage, plan, and implement within the area of responsibility.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively within a highly dynamic environment.
• Demonstrated ability to be effective in an environment subject to continuous change.
• Working knowledge of applicable regulations, legislation, and collective agreements.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
• Proficiency in the use of personal computers

About Fraser Health

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

 

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

 

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

 

Together, we are the heart of health care.

 

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