IMIT Senior Systems Analyst - Cardiology

 Req ID: 189639
Location: Provincial Zone, Halifax Infirmary Robie Street Entrance - QEII 
Department: IMIT Medical Imaging
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100%) x 1 
Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 5-Nov-24

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

Nova Scotia Health employs professionals in all corners of our beautiful province. We believe there's a place here for everyone to call home, from vibrant cities with exuberant nightlife to quaint towns with picturesque trails. The work-life balance that comes with a Nova Scotia Health role means you'll have the time to explore, discover, and participate in that coveted Atlantic lifestyle. Visit us today and check out www.novascotia.com to see why more people from across the globe are moving here.

About the Opportunity

The IM/IT Sr. Systems Analyst (SA) / Business Analyst (BA), reports to an IMIT/OPOR Manager, and is responsible for the evaluation, design, testing, implementation, maintenance, and support of information management and technology solutions, projects and services across NSHA, IWK and its many external clients. The IM Sr. SA/BA collaborates with key clinical and business stakeholders throughout the province as the organization, in partnership with the province’s Internal Services Department and the Department of Health and Wellness, moves towards the rationalization of disparate systems and the OPOR strategy.

Specific Responsibilities Include:

• Work on complex, cross-functional, and provincial business and clinical solutions
• Information gathering and documentation of business/technical requirements
• Ensures IT systems and processes are implemented and maintained to support the effective and safe delivery of patient information to care providers in clinical care settings
• Establish and maintain working relationships between the Clinical and Business stakeholders and IM/IT and/or OPOR to determine appropriate IT solutions
• Interpret business requirements and determine optimum business intelligence solutions to meet needs
• Apply data modeling techniques to ensure development and implementation efforts meet integration and performance expectations
• Collaborate with other team members, vendors and clinical stakeholders
• Perform analyses for a wide range of requests using data in different formats and from various platforms
• Participate in day-to-day software maintenance activities with a rotating responsibility for responding to tickets and client questions
• Complete other duties as assigned in relation to the position description

About You

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Degree or diploma in an Information Technology, Business Analysis or Health Related discipline. Consideration may be given to those with equivalent training and relevant experience.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a Technology, Business Analysis or Health Related field.
• 2+ years’ experience in application programming, systems analysis, business analysis or systems support.
• Experience and/or training with healthcare information systems and terminology an asset.
• Certification in IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Project Management (PMP) and/or organizational change management an asset.
• Experience supporting clinical application systems and related services in a complex health care organizational environment considered an asset.
• Ability to relay or explain complex issues or difficult scenarios to clinical and business staff.
• Working knowledge of basic systems principles, theories and concepts within healthcare.
• Strong knowledge of health care and technology industry best practice relating to software applications.
• Ability to solve a range of complex problems; identify innovative solutions; and, use clinical best practice knowledge of internal and/or external business issues to improve service.
• Experience creating summary documentation based on evaluation and analysis.
• Ability to influence and collaborate with diverse stakeholders to solve high risk, complex issues.
• Experience in transformational or process analysis to support change management principles.
• Ability to clearly communicates NSH vision, mission and values.
• Experience in working with patient care leaders.

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

Hours

• Permanent, Full-time Position; 75 Hours Bi-weekly

Compensation and Benefits

$37.61 - $47.01 Hourly

Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.

Once You've Applied

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. 

Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.