Senior Advisor, Clinical Informatics

Job summary

Identify and prioritize opportunities to improve Connect Care, then collaborate with clinicians and multidisciplinary teams to design and build evidence-based clinical content and workflows. Support change management, user education, governance, and improvement initiatives while advising on clinical system design and healthcare delivery priorities.

Job details

Your Opportunity: 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: 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 Classification: IT Proc/Chng&Rel Mgmt Srv Lev4 Union: Exempt Unit and Program: PRAXIS, Chief Medical Information Office Primary Location: Southport Tower Location Details: Eligible to work remotely within Alberta Negotiable Location: Provincial Employee Class: Regular Full Time FTE: 1.00 Posting End Date: 14-OCT-2026 Date Available: 24-OCT-2026 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. A minimum of 10 years of experience in either: Direct provision of healthcare in a clinical role, or 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: 1More than 5 years of progressively more responsible roles in health informatics. 2CPHIMS Certification an asset. 3Epic certification or proficiency or completion of the Epic Clinician Builder Program. Prosci Certification.

What you’ll do

Identify and prioritize opportunities to improve Connect Care, then collaborate with clinicians and multidisciplinary teams to design and build evidence-based clinical content and workflows. Support change management, user education, governance, and improvement initiatives while advising on clinical system design and healthcare delivery priorities.

Requirements

Requires an undergraduate degree, a clinical background is strongly encouraged, at least five years in progressively responsible clinical informatics roles, and at least ten years of experience providing healthcare or working directly with practicing clinicians. Candidates should demonstrate clinical best-practice and quality-improvement knowledge, project leadership, strong communication and relationship-building skills, Alberta health-system knowledge, and the ability to mentor junior staff; CPHIMS, Epic credentials or training, and Prosci certification are assets.

Listed skills

• Change Management · Preferred
• Quality Improvement · Preferred
• Project management · Preferred
• Process Improvement · Preferred
• Microsoft Office · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Clinical Informatics
• Clinical System Design
• Connect Care
• Clinical Workflow Improvement
• Clinical Content Development
• Knowledge Translation
• Change Management
• Quality Improvement
• Project Management
• Clinical Best Practices
• Stakeholder Collaboration
• Facilitation And Negotiation
• User Education
• Process Improvement
• Microsoft Office
• Visio

Job areas

• Healthcare
• Technology
• Management & Leadership

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