Senior Consultant

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Provide consulting services to clients on healthcare enabling technology related projects in a leadership, project management, analyst, subject matter expert or training capacity.

Work directly with the Practice Director / Manager and Consulting Services team to enable sales opportunities, support solution development, and provide exceptional on-site solution delivery based upon the needs of Healthtech clients.

KEY RESPONSIBLITIES :

The Senior Consultant will be responsible for, but not be limited to :

• Performing healthcare enabling technology related consulting for Healthtech clients
• Lead Healthtech projects as appropriate applying the skills and qualifications outlined in the Project Lead role description
• Applying technical expertise to individual client system build in order to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve problems
• Apply management consulting expertise to lead and guide healthcare enabling technology projects including but not limited to IMIT strategic planning;

total cost of ownership and system planning.

• Mentoring Healthtech consultants and client project teams as necessary in project planning and delivery
• Tracking and documenting risks and issues
• Analyzing and documenting workflows
• Working closely with project leadership, including documentation and facilitation.
• Working directly with health system end-users; monitoring workflows, providing documentation, and optimization suggestions.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews, complete gap analysis and recommendations and contribute to the development of a summary report to be presented to the client as required.
• Leading meetings regarding project status and on-going work-product coordination
• Working with the Healthtech Team on supporting sales enablement and business development activities, which may include identification of additional client opportunities, onsite presentations, and supporting proposal creation.
• Additional specific duties related to the project as may be required and dictated by individual clients. These duties are documented on a per-contract basis in the
• client’s Statement of work.
• May be invited to attend corporate functions as a representative of the company to meet prospective consultants, as well as solidify relationships with client and Healthtech co-workers
• Working / leading Healthtech projects that may be assigned on an ad hoc basis and may assist other corporate initiatives as necessary, directed, assigned, or requested

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE :

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in healthcare
• Minimum 2 years’ leading healthcare enabling technology projects.
• University degree or college diploma in Information Technology / Systems, health related field or equivalent, Project Management experience preferredHIS vendor specific certifications preferredChange Management Certificate preferredPMP, ITIL or other Health Informatics Certificate an asset
• Strong communication skills, written and verbal; Very high degree of professionalism
• Highly organized, able to multi-task as well as maintain intense focus on individual tasks
• Self-starter with ability to maintain schedule, meet deadlines, and monitor one’s own work product
• Highly adaptable; able to acclimate quickly to new project assignments
• Work successfully with different teams and co-workers
• Ability to adhere to client workplace rules and regulations
• Varying travel and living arrangements due to project location changes
• Aptitude for mentoring and guiding others
• Possess a strong work ethic who treats others with respect, keeps commitments, inspires the trust of others, works ethically and with integrity, and upholds organizational values

ADDITIONAL DETAILS :

• Work will primarily be performed at client locations, some of which may be in hospitals and medical clinics over which Healthtech no direct control.
• Additional work to be performed in a professional office environment and / or remotely; ability to travel for certain assignments.
• Position works a non-traditional schedule; work may be needed on weekends or evenings
• Some assignments may allow remote work. This allows the employee to work from home or other locations of their choosing.
• Position may require extensive travel via various modes of transportation.
• Some work assignments may require longer work hours, different or additional days, or on-call on a varying schedule not determined by Healthtech : Consultant assignments may necessitate travel outside of scheduled work hours (e.

g. flying on weekends or evenings). There may also be the possibility of travel interruptions which may affect the Consultant.

Must be available for calls, emails, and consults regularly and outside of scheduled work hours to support the client and communicate with home office as necessary.

This involves checking email, or voicemail on a regular basis throughout the day to respond to client or Healthtech matters.

If a go-live occurs while on a project with a client, extensive hours will more than likely be required. While go-live events do not occur on every project or with high frequency, if a consultant accepts a project that requires go-live participation, they will be expected to meet the time requirements of the assignment.

Must be able to unequivocally commit to working nights and weekends, be on-call, and immediately responsive to client needs during the event.