Clinical Informatics - London, Canada - Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre

Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre

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London, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre (SOAHAC) is a diverse, dynamic, multiservice Indigenous health and wellness agency. We strive to provide quality, wholistic health services by sharing and promoting traditional and western health practices to enable people to live in a more balanced state of well-being. SOAHAC provides services to Indigenous people including those who live on and off reserve, status, non-status, Inuit, and Metis within the Southwest, Waterloo Wellington and Erie St Clair regions. SOAHAC has a mandate of ensuring that health services are accessible, of high quality, and are culturally appropriate. It is SOAHAC's objective to build health care capacity within Indigenous communities.
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If you have a keen passion for advancing the quality and safety of care through supporting and enabling technologies and innovations as well as helping to bridge the gap between technology, people and processes, this opportunity may be for you _

The Role:
The
Clinical Informatics & Quality Lead will provide a broad range of supports across all SOAHAC sites.

Reporting to the Directory of Quality and Health Equity, this role will work closely with the Decision Support Team, Practice Leads, Management Team and Staff to help ensure a timely response to a variety of end user needs such as support for quality improvement initiatives, risk identification and mitigation plans as well as day-to-day problem solving.

You will be called upon to facilitates the management, collection and analysis of clinical and non-clinical data at staff, client, family, and community levels to identify strengths and enhancement opportunities for programs & services that will improve the health wellness of First Nation, Inuit & Metis people across SOAHAC's catchment area.

You will participate as a member of the Leadership Team providing expertise and guidance on continuous quality and risk management improvement initiatives.

As part of the role, you will be a key player in all aspects of SOAHACs quality improvement and risk management initiatives.

Your creativity will be called upon to help us create a suite of visual management tools to advance key priorities for the organization and those we serve.

Requirements:

Demonstrated success overseeing quality improvement and risk management activities including deliverables such as internal and external quality reports, data collection & analysis and effective communication across all levels of the organization
Knowledge and understanding of quality and risk management principles, best practices, program evaluation methods and techniques.
Indepth knowledge of issue analysis, policy development, clinical and operation issues, care processes, data informed decisionmaking, and clinical information systems.
Experience delivering training/inservices to adult learners utilizing a variety of media.
Excellent computer proficiency with advanced knowledge of Office 365 platform (MS Teams, Outlook, Excel, Word, Access)
Ability to minimize risks adhering to established policies and procedures
Demonstrated strong organization skills and time management in a dynamic environment; ability to work on multiple projects shifting focus as needed
Knowledge and expertise in using dashboards or other visual management strategies to support clinical decision making
Excellent written and oral communication skills demonstrated through the ability to create relationships at all levels of the organization
Selfmotivated, organized, creative and able to work independently with good judgement
High attention to problem descriptions, details, and impact
Demonstrated problem solving, critical thinking and analytic skills
Ability to create a collaborative multidisciplinary work environment which values staff participation in codesign processes.
Experience working with a geographically dispersed team across multiple locations
Ability to travel within to all SOAHAC sites will be required
Valid Ontario Driver's "G" license; clean driver's abstract, as well as proof of personal auto insurance (must be insured a minimum of 3 years and in good standing)
Willing to participate in Indigenous Cultural Safety Training, teachings and ceremonies.
Clean and current police check as a condition of employment
Up to date immunizations and records

Responsibilities

Facilitates the management, collection and analysis of clinical and nonclinical data at staff, client, family, and community levels to find opportunities for quality improvement, risk management and program/service enhancement opportunities.
Willingness to build expertise with Telus Practice Solutions EMR to effectively extract data and support quality improvement initiatives throughout their life cycle
Document and communicate issues and solutions for system improvements as part of ongoing Quality Assurance initiatives
Support data governance strategies to ensure the accuracy, inte