Hours: 70 hours biweekly (8 hours; Days)

Salary: HL-23 ($80,407-$104,529) Annual

Competition Number: VAC0011728

Posted Date: 2025-05-26

Closing Date: 2025-06-02

About the Role

The Manager-Clinical Information Systems position (Pharmacy) will be required for the implementation of the Health Information System (HIS) Project. The Manager provides an additional level of coordination and communication, overseeing implementation for the HIS capability in Pharmacy care areas and other areas as determined by the project governance.

The Manager?Clinical Information Systems reports directly to the Director of Clinical Informatics.

You will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following:

• Assist with setting up a province-wide Clinical Systems capability.
• Establish strong partnership with the related business community.
• Maintain the scope, schedule, and quality of the project in the Pharmacy clinical systems application area.
• Work closely with the Director of Clinical Informatics and other managers to coordinate activities.
• Ensure that the clinical community is engaged in the project.
• Assist and provide leadership to the application analysts in their respective areas.
• Work closely with the physician champions and the nursing champions, know how to leverage their support.
• Review the progress of the project on an ongoing basis with the Director of Clinical Informatics, the Project Management Office (PMO), and the Transformation Management Office. (TMO)
• Sign off on configuration, testing, and readiness activities.
• Ensure incidents and other operational changes, work activities and initiatives are communicated to appropriate business owners, clients and stakeholders.
• Establish strong partnership with the related business community.
• Manage and evaluate the Pharmacy Team?s work activities to ensure objectives and timelines are met.
• After go-live, responsible for overseeing the support of related functions.

About You

Your education and experience include:

• A Baccalaureate Degree in a health-related field (Pharmacy preferred) or degree in information systems or computer science.
• A minimum of five (5) years progressive management experience including experience in acute care clinical setting, supplemented by supervisory experience is required.
• Minimum of seven years direct experience in business analyst or an IT project environment.
• Clinical background is an asset.
• Experience with Health Information System implementation is an asset.
• Experience leading a highly skilled technical team.
• Experience planning and maintaining budgets, and operational plans.
• Implementation or system utilization experience in the core inpatient management area (ideally both analytics and care management).

You have the following knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Familiar with the provincial NLHS structure and its connection to the EHR.
• Knowledge of clinical systems and its operations.
• Establish and maintain effective vendor relationships.
• Understand and awareness of data quality and accuracy and the impact on the EHR.
• Understand the issues within the core inpatient areas well enough to represent users/ needs to HIS.
• Explore and analyze alternatives.
• Establish deadlines and adhere to them.
• Manage organizational needs to the systems functionality.
• Excellent communications skills both written and verbal.
• Sound decision-making ability.
• Strong time management skills
• Effective team leadership ability and skills
• Strong technical background
• Team player
• Travel requirements

Demonstrated equivalencies maybe considered.