Senior Clinical Analyst – Humber River Hospital

Title of the Job: Senior Clinical Analyst

Location: Toronto, ON

Job Description: Position ProfileHumber River Health. Lighting New Ways In Healthcare.Since opening our doors in 2015 as North America’s first fully digital hospital and we remain unwavering in our belief that we can change the hospital where we work, the community where we live, and the world of healthcare beyond our borders. Serving a community of 850,000 residents in North West Toronto, Equity Inclusivity and active participation in the North West Toronto Ontario Health Team are key initiatives important to our Team. At Humber River Health, we use a custom combination of technology and clinical expertise to rebuild elements of care. We make technology work for staff and physicians; giving them more time to spend with patients, to eliminate inefficiencies, and to reduce the chance of errors. Humber River Health is formally affiliated with both the University of Toronto and Queen’s University and committed to becoming a community academic hospital. Clinical Excellence, Optimizing Care through Technology and Community Connection frame our Research Strategy.At Humber River Health, we’re not hoping for a renaissance, we are making it happen. As part of our dynamic team, you can lead the way, as we continue our journey towards high reliability care!Right now we are looking for a Temporary Full-Time Clinical Analyst to join our newly formed Health Analytics team.Are you a compassionate analyst who is focused on supporting the delivery of high-quality, safe-care through analytics? If yes, we invite you to read the details below then apply.Location: Humber River Health – all sitesHours of Work: DaysEmployee Group: Non-unionJob Summary: The Clinical Analyst, Health Analytics works closely with Directors and other stakeholders to seek out requests, understand and document the underlying business need, and leverage the correct analytic / business tools, to empower leaders with the right information. When relevant, the Clinical Analyst will work with other members of the Health Analytics team to develop and document requirements for automated technical solutions, and ensure data integrity, validity andreliability.Responsibilities:

• Meets with clinicians and leaders as required, provide an overview on analytic capabilities to support with user request solicitation.
• Attend program, review, utilization and/or budget meetings to identify opportunities to empower program areas with analytics, and identifies deliverables.
• Provide dedicated support to identified program areas obtaining an intimate understanding of their operations, supporting identification of operational needs and opportunities where health analytics can support.
• Support in the development of key performance indicators (KPIs), scorecards, and/or outcome metrics.
• Identify opportunities to automate data, including, but not limited to, data collection, tracking, trending and reporting.
• Perform review/evaluation on the best mechanism/solution to support the health analytics at HRH.
• Collect business requirements using techniques such as “Voice of the customer”, to distinguish between user requests and the underlying business need.
• Translate business needs to operational requirements in analytics (e.g. reports, dashboards, etc.).
• Document requirements in use case format and create process models, leveraging principles in human factors, design thinking and usability heuristics.
• Identify methodological approaches and the data required to answer specific data science questions;
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to identify analytic solutions and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs. Act as a bridge between the business community and ICAT for analytics.
• Produce high quality ad hoc and standardized reports customized per project, tailored to different end-users (e.g. clinicians, researchers, senior management, and hospital executives).
• Pre-process raw data to prepare for analysis. This includes cleaning and merging data from multiple sources, as well as understanding overall data quality.
• Assist with writing project protocols including: data extraction, cleaning, predictive model, and validation plans
• Assist with writing code to put final analytic solutions into production.
• Write documentation and contribute to project repositories so that all work is reproducible.
• Validate data collected and reported by the health analytics team.
• Validate any output tables, listings or figures generated to ensure accuracy and reliability of analyses.
• Completes cleaning/consistency checks and other quality control measures necessary for the final analysis.
• Critically evaluate and align the right data and output to business needs, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding.
• Write HTML, PDF, Microsoft Word, and/or Microsoft PowerPoint reports summarizing the analysis.
• Prepare presentations for program areas, and leadership, and/or present finding of analysis.
• Perform and document analytic requirements for analytic solutions to be built by the data engineer/developer, including interactive dashboards in BCA, reports with interactive visualizations using libraries like Highcharts, plotly, and other analytic solutions.
• Conduct an exploratory and statistical analysis of data to assess feasibility of new data science projects using the R, Python or other programming languages.
• Coordinate and write business cases as requested, understanding the business need, collaborating with finance/decision support for financial or staffing data, contribute with additional data, and provide for review to supervisor and program leadership.

Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree in health care, statistics/biostatistics, health informatics or related discipline required
• Master’s degree in health care, statistics/biostatistics, health informatics or related discipline preferred
• 5 Years experience in healthcare required
• 2-3 Years experience in analytics / using analytic tools required (e.g. SAS, R Studio, Tidyverse, etc.)
• Expert knowledge of MS Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Demonstrated strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with leaders, physicians, inter-professional team members, and other stakeholders
• Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills, with demonstrated competency in information and communication technology
• Demonstrated excellent organizational and coordination skills and the ability to prioritize multiple competing workload demands
• Excellent organizational, critical appraisal and analytical skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• High level of initiative and self-direction.
• Excellent attendance and discipline free record is a requirement
• Professional Certifications in CHIM or PMP preferred
• Regulated Health Professional preferred
• Experience with Meditech preferred
• Experience with Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions, predictive analytics, machine learning preferred
• Experience writing proposals, written submissions, and/or business cases preferred

Why choose Humber River Health?At Humber River Health, our staff, physicians, and volunteers are lighting new ways in healthcare. We are proud to be recognized as a part of Greater Toronto’s Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc. We support employees by providing evidence-based leadership and cultivating a culture that consistently wows as a Huron Consulting hospital. We are a member of the Toronto Academic Health Science Network (TAHSN) and are deeply involved in research and academic collaboration. We are dedicated to high-quality patient care and demonstrate our values of compassion, professionalism, and respect.Attracting and retaining a workforce that represents the diverse communities surrounding Humber River Health, is a priority. We encourage applicants from all equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to, individuals who identity as Indigenous, racialized, seniors, persons living with disabilities, women, and those who identify as 2SLGBTQ.Applicants will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, disability, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by the Ontario Human Rights Code and Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process as well as during employment at Humber River Health. Please direct any accommodation requests to our recruitment team.

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