Alberta Health Services
CORE Lead, Medicine/Clinical Documentation
Your Opportunity:
Health Shared Services (HSS) is seeking a CORE Lead to join the Clinical Operations Informatics Office (COIO), supporting Digital Health provincially for Medicine and Clinical Documentation. Connect Care is Alberta’s provincial electronic health record, integrating more than 1,300 independent systems into a single platform to enhance patient safety, care quality, and operational efficiency. Clinical workflows, build design are central to patient care delivery and require strong governance, safety oversight, holistic awareness of system impacts, and close coordination across clinical, operational, and digital teams. This leadership role is critical to ensure clinical workflows are standardized, safe, operationally effective, and consistently supported across all care settings. The position provides informatics leadership for enterprise initiatives across several domains, including clinical documentation and medicine, ensuring digital systems and workflows are optimized, safe, and effectively adopted by operational teams. There is flexibility regarding work location within Alberta, and candidates from across the province are encouraged to apply. Provincial travel may be required.
Description:
The CORE Lead is a leadership role within the COIO team, with a provincial scope, reporting directly to the Executive Director. This is a leadership position that will have direct report accountabilities, with opportunities for coaching, mentoring, and developing team members to build informatics subject-matter expertise, strengthen change leadership capability, and ensure consistent delivery of high-quality outcomes. The successful candidate is an expert in organizational change management, with a proven track record leading large-scale transformational initiatives. The role focuses on the collaborative design of informatics workflows that function cohesively within an integrated digital health ecosystem. The CORE Lead provides strategic leadership in clinical informatics and operational readiness oversight for functionality within Digital Health.
- Transition Company: Health Shared Services
- Classification: Lead
- Union: Exempt
- Unit and Program: Clinical Operations Informatics Office
- Primary Location: CN Tower
- Location Details: Eligible to work remotely within Alberta
- Negotiable Location: Provincial
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 02-SEP-2026
- Date Available: 28-SEP-2026
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $45.23
- Maximum Salary: $77.51
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Minimum 10 years of progressive leadership experience leading organizational change in a variety of large complex healthcare settings Degree in a healthcare-related field with an active professional license or registration in good standing. Demonstrated experience with Clinical Documentation systems, Informatics, healthcare governance, and health information management. Strong understanding of clinical workflows and healthcare operations. Strong knowledge of change management principles, methodologies, and evaluation approaches. Experience in project management, workflow design, process improvement, and implementation of change initiatives. Excellent communication, facilitation, consensus-building, engagement, analytical, and problem-solving skills. Proven ability to build relationships, resolve conflict, and collaborate effectively across clinical, technical, and operational teams. Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines while maintaining attention to detail.
Additional Required Qualifications:
Experience mentoring and contributing to a positive, inclusive team culture. Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional and personal development. Willingness to travel and attend meetings at varied times as required.
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s Degree in a Health‑Related Field Professional background in Clinical Informatics Certifications related to leadership, management, or change management (e.g., PROSCI) Experience with EPIC/Connect Care/Digital Health in a variety of contexts. Experience preparing executive‑level briefing materials and decision documents
Source: official Alberta Health Services career portal · Requisition 590738