Lead, Health Informatics

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $46.37 - $66.66 / hour

Job Summary

Fraser Health Authority is seeking a Lead, Health Informatics to join our Clinical Informatics and Digital Health team. This role provides leadership across health informatics initiatives that support clinical and corporate business areas, enabling the effective use of information and digital solutions to improve care delivery. This is a permanent full time position that will be supporting Population and Public Health .

About the Role

The Lead, Health Informatics is responsible for leading and managing assigned projects, providing day-to-day leadership to team members, and applying appropriate change management strategies throughout the project lifecycle. This role partners closely with clinical and corporate stakeholders, offering expert advice, guidance, and direction within an assigned portfolio.

Key areas of focus include knowledge management, decision support, and the development and implementation of application architecture. The Lead, Health Informatics also provides expertise on enterprise-wide initiatives and serves as a backup to the Portfolio Manager in team leadership responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

Lead and manage assigned health informatics projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals

Provide leadership, mentorship, and guidance to team members

Apply effective change management strategies to support project success and adoption

Advise clinical and corporate stakeholders on knowledge management, decision support, and information system solutions

Support the development and implementation of application architecture

Contribute to enterprise-wide initiatives and initiatives of strategic importance

Act as backup to the Portfolio Manager for team leadership activities as required

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Health Information Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering , or a related field

or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience

Five (5) years of recent experience in business and systems analysis, including experience as an information system project manager

Demonstrated experience working with health and corporate information systems including Paris, Profile and Meditech

Why Join Fraser Health

At Fraser Health, we are committed to delivering innovative, patient-centred care supported by strong digital and informatics foundations. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to meaningful health system transformation while working within a collaborative and purpose-driven environment.

BC’s health system is in the process of transformation. As part of the planned changes, certain IM/IT, Finance, and Supply Chain roles are expected to be in scope for transition to a new provincial shared services organization, BC Shared Health Services. Candidates applying to positions in these areas should be aware that, while the role is currently employed by the Health Authority, it may transition to BC Shared Health Services as part of the first or subsequent implementation phases.

The intent of this transition is to support continuity of employment however, details regarding timing, process, and any impacts to employment arrangements will be confirmed as planning progresses. Providing this information at the recruitment stage is intended to ensure transparency about the broader system changes underway and to support informed decision-making by candidates.

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Detailed Overview

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:

The Lead, Health Informatics is responsible for leading and managing assigned projects, providing leadership to team members and applying appropriate change management strategies as part of a project. Provides advice, guidance, and direction to an assigned portfolio in the areas of knowledge management, and decision support; in clinical and corporate business areas which includes the development and implementation of application architecture. Provides expertise on enterprise-wide projects, serves as back up to the Portfolio Manager in the area of team leadership.

Responsibilities

Provides guidance and expertise by consulting to all disciplines and stakeholders within an assigned portfolio by performing functions such as coordinating and performing feasibility studies, conducting workload efficiency analysis using formal data gathering techniques, analyzing, designing and implementing appropriate information systems, and identifying system deficiencies, user department operational inefficiencies and recommending ways of improving business efficiency functions.

Participates in enterprise-wide, cross-disciplinary business strategy projects including confidential initiatives that support the selection, procurement and implementation of appropriate information systems applications that may result in the elimination of FTEs.

Serves as a consultant participating on enterprise-wide projects which are under the leadership of the Portfolio Manager; serves as back up to the Portfolio Manager in the area of team leadership or project management. Prepares status reports and meets with clients and provide reports back to the Portfolio Manager as required.

Responsible to establish and lead assigned information system projects by adhering to project management and support structure methodologies, managing project timelines, monitoring expenditures and variance analysis, facilitating change management strategies, defining tasks, identifying resource needs, and reporting on project status to the Portfolio Manager or Manager. Provides strategic guidance in the project design phases and works within assigned budget and provides reports or raises concerns as necessary. Participates in the hiring process for staff, and coordinates and provides guidance to team members.

Performs system analysis by establishing application systems scope a