[Hiring] Director of Clinical Informatics @Workiy

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced Director of Clinical Informatics to provide strategic and operational leadership for a large-scale provincial Clinical Information System (CIS) implementation program. The successful candidate will lead clinical informatics activities, standardize clinical workflows across healthcare facilities, and ensure alignment between clinical requirements, technical system development, and patient care objectives.

The role involves:

• Collaborating with physicians, clinicians, clinical operations teams, technical EHR/CIS build teams, and senior stakeholders.
• Defining, validating, and implementing standardized clinical workflows while managing approved variations across facilities of different sizes.
• Leading clinical governance forums and facilitating physician engagement.
• Translating clinical requirements into technical specifications.
• Overseeing system build priorities and coordinating workflow validation, testing, release readiness, cutover, and go-live activities.
• Supporting large-scale EHR/CIS implementations through command centre operations, incident management, stabilization, clinician education, change adoption, and post-go-live optimization.
• Promoting patient safety and clinical quality, strengthening medication and order management processes.
• Monitoring project risks and progress, developing clinical informatics strategies and workplans.
• Mentoring clinical informatics teams and facilitating knowledge transfer.

The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in:

• Clinical informatics leadership.
• Enterprise healthcare system implementations.
• Clinical workflow design and stakeholder engagement.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in both English and French.

Qualifications

• Relevant Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing, Health Informatics, Health Sciences, or a Related Field.
• Equivalent combination of education and senior clinical informatics experience.

Requirements

• Clinical Informatics and Healthcare Information Systems.
• Large-Scale Electronic Health Record (EHR) / Clinical Information System (CIS) Implementation and Optimization.
• Clinical Workflow Design, Standardization, and Localization.
• Clinical Informatics Leadership and Team Management.
• Physician Engagement and Clinical Stakeholder Management.
• Clinical Documentation, Order Management, Order Sets, and Clinical Decision Support.
• Medication Management and Patient Safety.
• Clinical Informatics and Technical EHR/CIS Build Team Coordination.
• Clinical Requirements Analysis and Technical Specifications.
• Clinical Governance, Committees, and Decision-Making.
• EHR/CIS Build Oversight, Testing, and Release Management.
• Workflow Validation, Release Readiness, and Go-Live/Cutover Planning.
• Large-Scale EHR/CIS Go-Live, Command Centre, and Incident Management.
• Clinician Education, Change Adoption, and Post-Go-Live Optimization.
• Clinical Quality Improvement and Clinical Operations Collaboration.
• Risk Management, Status Reporting, and Clinical Informatics Strategy.
• Knowledge Transfer, Mentoring, and Team Development.
• English and French Communication Skills.

Benefits

• Remote work arrangement with travel to New Brunswick at least once per month.
• Contract duration from November 2, 2026, to November 1, 2028, with a potential one-year renewal.