Job Details

The Clinical Informaticist (CI) acts as a bridge between clinical operations and health IT, ensuring that electronic systems align with and enhance clinical workflows. This role requires both clinical experience and technical acumen, with an emphasis on improving care delivery through effective health informatics strategies.

This role

• Enhances the quality and safety of patient care
• Improves system usability and provider satisfaction
• Bridges communication gaps between clinical and technical teams
• Drives clinical excellence through technology and innovation

Key Responsibilities

•  Health IT Liaison: Serve as the main contact between clinical departments and IT for all technology initiatives.
• Project Leadership: Plan, coordinate, and monitor health informatics projects from design through implementation and maintenance.
• Clinical Relevancy & Consultation: Provide clinical insight and consultation to ensure systems are aligned with evidence-based practices.
• Technical Involvement: Participate in system design, testing, change management, and quality control documentation.
• Training & Support: Support staff through training, workflow adjustments, and reinforcement of intended system use.
  Ad Hoc Analysis: Respond to requests for informatics-related data, analysis, and system modifications.

Core Competencies

• Healthcare Informatics: Deep understanding of clinical information systems and their role in patient care and operational efficiency.
• Evidence-Based Practice: Ability to integrate the latest clinical evidence into system workflows.
• Workflow Optimization: Skills in identifying and improving clinical processes via technology.
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Comfortable working with nursing, medical staff, administration, and IT.
• Change Management: Expertise in promoting adoption and minimizing workarounds through positive engagement.

Clinical Informatics oversees training and workflow development for the Epic electronic health record. This includes providing training and support for new employees as well as ongoing support for all Epic users. Instructional Designers are experienced educational training professionals who know how to apply adult learning behavior theory and put it into practice with in-depth understanding of the professional field. They work with subject matter experts to learn workflows and apply instructional design methodology to the development of training materials for Epic system upgrades and optimizations. Clinical Informaticists apply their clinical training and experience to evaluate and improve workflows for clinical users of Epic. This includes proposing and overseeing system optimizations, collaborating with system analysts, and working with Instructional Designers on the development of training materials as needed. Clinical Informaticists round with users to observe workflows and provide at-the-elbow support as needed.

Valley Children’s Healthcare – one of the largest pediatric healthcare networks in the nation – provides Central California’s only high-quality, comprehensive care exclusively for children, from before birth to young adulthood. With more than 670 physicians and 3,500 staff, Valley Children’s delivers high-quality, comprehensive care to more than 1.3 million children in our service area. Our network offers highly specialized medical and surgical services to care for children with conditions ranging from common to the highly complex at our 358-bed stand-alone children’s hospital that includes 28 regional NICU beds. Our family-centered, pediatric services extend from a leading pediatric cancer and blood disorders center home on the West Coast, and a pediatric heart center known for its expertise and pioneering treatments, to a Regional Level IV neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the highest level referral center between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. We participate in community initiatives, we support community efforts, we get involved where we can do the most good.

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum 4 years clinical experience
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in nursing informatics and informatics systems required
• Minimum 2 years’ experience and demonstrated competency with the current electronic documentation system required
• Ability to work with colleagues in a positive way to help reinforce changes in the workflows supporting the intended use of the electronic system and avoiding system work-arounds

EDUCATION/LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing required
• Active California Registered Nurse (RN) license
• Epic Certification necessary to support area of specialty required within 90 days of hire or transfer into position
• Clinical Informatics Certification (ANIA, CHCIO, RN-BC – Informatics Nursing Certification) preferred

ADDITIONAL POSITION DETAILS: This is a hybrid position, combining remote work with on-site responsibilities. On-site presence may be required up to three days per week, based on departmental needs and organizational priorities.

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Disclaimer:  Final compensation will be dependent upon skills and experience.