Senior Clinical Informatics Analyst

Job Description

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Req ID:
**217037**
Location:
**Provincial**
Zone,
**Westway 1**
Department:
**OPOR STRAT Phys Informatics SPPT**
Type of Employment:
**Temporary**
**Hourly FT short-assignment**
(
**100%**
) x
**1**
*MGMT/NON-Union*
**Management/Non Union**
Position
Posting Closing Date:
**4-Mar-26**
Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We're on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

Nova Scotia Health employs professionals in all corners of our beautiful province. We believe there's a place here for everyone to call home, from vibrant cities with exuberant nightlife to quaint towns with picturesque trails. The work-life balance that comes with a Nova Scotia Health role means you'll have the time to explore, discover, and participate in that coveted Atlantic lifestyle. Visit us today and check out to see why more people from across the globe are moving here.

About The Opportunity
The Sr. Clinical Informatics analyst will facilitate the design, implementation, optimization and adoption of clinical informatics initiatives by working collaboratively with stakeholders, technical experts and/or vendors as required. Using advanced critical and creative thinking the Sr. Clinical Informatics Analyst analyzes, prioritizes, and translates user needs and requests related to the CIS. The Sr. Clinical Informatics Analyst works with stakeholders across NSH, IWK and its many external partners.

The Sr. Clinical Informatics Analyst collaborates with key clinical and business stakeholders throughout the province, in partnership with the province's NS Digital Services and the Department of Health and Wellness.

The Clinical Informatics Analyst will be committed to a high standard of performance and will provide advanced level of support across the province for the implementation and support of the OPOR clinical information system.

About You
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Post-secondary education in clinical, health science, information technology and or health informatics. Consideration may be given to those with equivalent training and relevant experience.
• Minimum of three years clinical informatics experience
• Experience in workflow and process redesign
• Project management, quality improvement and change management skills an asset
• Demonstrated success in supporting healthcare staff in the use of electronic clinical applications
• Able to function well within a team setting and independently
• Well-developed analytical, problem-solving, organizational and communications skills
• Ability to actively demonstrate role competencies and leadership
• Possess a valid driver's license and ability for some travel within the province.
• Certification in CPHIMS, IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Project Management (PMP) and/or organizational change management an asset.
• Experience supporting or using clinical application systems and related services in a complex health care organizational environment
• Ability to relay or explain complex technical issues or difficult scenarios to clinical and business staff
• Working knowledge of basic systems principles, theories, and concepts within healthcare
• Working knowledge of project management principles and the software development lifecycle
• Strong knowledge of health care and technology industry best practice relating to software applications
• Experience creating summary documentation based on evaluation and analysis
• Ability to influence and collaborate with diverse stakeholders to solve high risk, complex issues
• Experience in transformational or process analysis to support change management principles

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

*Hours*

• Short assignment, full time position. 75 Hours bi-weekly
• Approximately 6 months

Compensation And Benefits
$ $47.95 Hourly

Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.

Once You've Applied
Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

This is a Management/Non Union bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units, or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.

Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.