Portfolio Manager (Surgical)

Location

Surrey, BC | Canada

Job description

The Health Informatics – Clinical Ancillary Services portfolio has an 18-month temporary Portfolio Manager, Health Informatics positionavailable to support our Surgical, Anesthesia, and Medical Device Reprocessing (MDR)areas within Fraser Health.

As a key member of the leadership team, you will lead a busy portfolio with multiple enterprise level applications used within the surgical and MDR departments across 12 acute care hospitals. Within this portfolio you will be play a key role in innovative initiatives in partnership with clinicians, digital patient and provider experience teams as well as with vendors.

Utilize your consulting, clinical workflow knowledge in the surgical journey, expert project planning and management skills as you work with highly skilled colleagues and make a difference in healthcare and patient outcomes. This challenging and rewarding experience will demand your best and allow you to grow and contribute in a meaningful way to the success of the program, and to the community at large. Be part of the team that innovates the future of health care!

Why Fraser Health?

Fraser Health is responsible for the delivery of hospital and community-based health services to over 1.9 million people in 20 diverse communities from Burnaby to Fraser Canyon on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations. Our team of 45,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers is dedicated to serving our patients, families and communities to deliver on our vision: Better health, best in health care.

Effective October 26, 2021, all new hires to Fraser Health will need to have full COVID 19 vaccination (have received a full series of a World Health Organization “WHO” approved vaccine against infection by SARS-COV-2, or a combination of approved WHO vaccines).  Please note this applies to all postings, and individual medical exemptions must be approved by the Provincial Health Officer.

Be part of a collaborative, dynamic team as you:

1. Oversee the implementation and uptake of specialized electronic clinical solutions used by Surgical, Anesthesia, and Medical Device Reprocessing clinical areas within Fraser Health.
2. Develop, lead and mentor a team of staff that are responsible for a variety of activities, including: supporting the deployment of clinical applications and IT infrastructure projects, providing operational support for systems, developing training materials, and conducting training to end users.
3. Act as a liaison with clinical leadership within the assigned portfolio to support the clinical area’s technical needs, while adhering to best practices in information technology and change management.
4. Utilize your demonstrated knowledge of health informatics, business processes, technologies and applications.
5. Translate clinical and business needs into application requirements based on a thorough knowledge of all components of project management processes and the systems development life cycle.
6. Create strategies to improve operational support and sustainment of enterprise systems within the portfolio.
7. Oversee procurement projects and manage contracts and relationships with vendors for enterprise systems.
8. Foster a supportive environment through engagement, innovation, individual and team achievements.

Are you motivated to join our team? We will be looking for you to have the following:

• Bachelor's degree in Health Informatics, Health Information Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business or related field.
• Seven (7) years of related experience in a large complex organization including at least three (3) years' experience as a Project Manager. 
• Including two (2) years providing leadership to a variety of large project teams

An asset to this role would be:

• Experience with health and corporate information systems
• Experience with financial management for projects
• Experience supporting and implementing health information systems that are specialized to improve clinical workflows and clinical documentation 
• Experience with or a strong understanding of medical device integration with clinical systems
• Experience with or a strong understanding of HL7 integration between clinical systems and Meditech

Additional Skills and Capabilities required to be successful in this role:

• Demonstrates the LEADS capabilities; Leads Self, Engages Others, Achieves results, Develops Coalitions and supports Systems Transformation.

• Ability to be organized, goal-oriented, proactive, solution-oriented, pragmatic and the ability to understand the long-term and short-term perspectives.
• Diplomatic negotiation skills and the ability to influence. Understanding of and the ability to manage the political climate of the organization.
• Ability to provide input into project budget development, manage assigned dollars and estimate financial impact of application architecture alternatives.
• Demonstrated decision making ability within complex and diverse issues.

• Advanced knowledge of information management, business processes, technologies and applications.
• Knowledge of all components of a technical architecture and health and corporate information systems.
• Ability to translate business needs into application architecture requirements.
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the project management process and the systems development life cycle.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position. 

This is a temporary Full Timepositions to cover for a maternity leave, based at our Central City Offices in Surrey, B.C.

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