Job Description: Clinical Informatics Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of informaticists and support staff in delivering top-tier electronic health records (EHR) services. This includes meeting functional and clinical operational goals, driving software/product enhancements, overseeing training, and ensuring high standards of customer service.
• Collaborate with the Executive Director to create and implement both short-term and long-term IT strategic plans, managing and advancing the Clinical Informatics initiatives for the organization.
• Oversee the Clinical Informatics team in providing informatics support across the hospital, serving as a key bridge between clinical staff and IT, and facilitating clinical IT systems that support clinical practice.
• Foster coordination among the hospital’s IT staff, complex technology environment, and contracted application support teams to achieve seamless functionality.
• Partner closely with clinical vendors, aiming to establish the organization as a model site for their clinical product suite.
• Build trust and a reputation for excellence in service delivery with physicians, nurses, executives, clinicians, and key stakeholders.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree required; master’s degree preferred.
• For candidates with a nursing background, a current Colorado RN license or a multi-state compact license is required. RN preferred but not mandatory.

Experience:

• Proficiency in Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Development, Internet, Project Management, Healthcare Informatics, and Database software, as well as clinical application support tools.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a hospital clinical setting is preferred.
• Experience moving from Meditech to Epic preferred.

Skills:

• Leadership: Strong abilities in coaching, counseling, delegation, decision-making, collaboration, direction, planning, and goal setting.
• Project Management: Skilled in developing and tracking timelines, planning, crisis management, and team leadership.
• Change Management: Excellent verbal and written communication, empathy, collaboration, and planning.
• Interpersonal Skills: Strong in diplomacy, goal setting, group processes, and written/oral communication.
• Financial Acumen: Understanding of budgeting, finance, and performance review processes.

This position is ideal for a candidate with a strategic mindset and a commitment to enhancing clinical IT services to improve patient care.