PRAXIS - Director, Care Narrative
Your Opportunity:
Join us in shaping how the clinical and patient story is captured, structured, and shared across Connect Care and other Digital Health systems-at a provincial scale. We are seeking a senior clinical informatics leader to join the CMIO portfolio as Director, PRAXIS - Care Narrative (formerly CKCM). You should apply if: You are an experienced clinical informatician who understands that documentation is more than record-keeping-it is how care is communicated, understood, and advanced. You have worked at the intersection of clinical documentation, workflow, and digital systems-and recognize the impact of well-designed information architecture on care quality, continuity, and safety. You think in terms of narrative, structure, and usability-balancing the needs of clinicians, patients, and the system to ensure information is meaningful, accessible, and fit for purpose. You are motivated to reduce documentation burden, improve clarity and consistency of the clinical record, and enable more effective use of information across the care continuum. You are inspired by the opportunity to strengthen patient engagement through thoughtful design of patient-facing information and education, and to shape how information flows between patients and providers. This is a unique opportunity to lead the design and evolution of the clinical narrative-ensuring that the right information is captured, accessible, and usable to support high-quality care today and into the future.
Description:
The Director, Care Narrative leads a team responsible for designing and governing how clinical and patient information is captured, structured, and shared across Connect Care and other Digital Health systems. The role provides enterprise leadership for documentation standards, information architecture, and patient-facing content to support safe, effective, and patient-centered care. Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities: Leads and develops a team delivering clinical documentation and information design capabilities. Establishes enterprise standards for clinical documentation, templates, and tools. Stewards core clinical content related to documentation and narrative structure. Designs documentation approaches that support clinical workflow and usability. Reduces documentation burden while maintaining quality, safety, and completeness. Ensures alignment with enterprise standards, professional requirements, and provincial strategies. Oversees standardization and optimization of documentation practices across care settings. Establishes governance for information architecture, including data structure and content design. Ensures clinical information is structured to support continuity of care and system use. Leads design of patient-facing information within clinical systems. Partners with programs, HIM, and Medical Affairs on documentation standards and policies. Ensures appropriate integration of patient-generated and patient-accessible information. Supports appropriate access to and use of the clinical record across care environments. Enables use of clinical documentation to support quality improvement and system learning. Provides enterprise leadership to ensure consistency, scalability, and sustainability of care narrative strategies.
- Transition Company: Health Shared Services
- Classification: Program Director
- Union: Exempt
- Unit and Program: Digital Health, Chief Medical Information Office, PRAXIS Clinical Informatics & System Enabled Practice
- Primary Location: Southport Tower
- Location Details: Eligible to work hybrid (on/off site) within Alberta
- Negotiable Location: Provincial
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 28-APR-2026
- Date Available: 08-MAY-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: $55.74
- Maximum Salary: $98.04
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Regulated health professional designation in good standing with a recognized professional regulatory body. Graduate degree in Health Informatics, Health Administration, Clinical Epidemiology, Quality Improvement, Health Systems Leadership, or related field.
Additional Required Qualifications:
Minimum of 10 years progressive senior leadership experience within a complex healthcare organization of significant size, scope, and diversity. Demonstrated direct experience in clinical informatics practice, including hands-on involvement in clinical system design, workflow optimization, structured content development, decision support governance, or digital clinical transformation initiatives. Experience working within a large-scale enterprise electronic health record environment (e.g., Connect Care or a system of comparable size and complexity). Demonstrated leadership of senior professional staff within layered or distributed team structures. Proven ability to establish governance frameworks for digital clinical systems and system-enabled practice. Experience developing and implementing quality and evaluation frameworks to assess patient outcomes, clinical reliability, cognitive burden, system usability, and practice consistency. Demonstrated ability to assess and integrate emerging health technologies, including artificial intelligence and automation, within regulated clinical environments. Experience influencing executive leaders and navigating complex stakeholder environments at a provincial or enterprise scale. Strong strategic thinking, systems analysis, and risk mitigation capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications:
Formal education or certification in Clinical Informatics (e.g., CPHIMS, CAHIMS, board certification, or equivalent). Advanced training in quality improvement, health systems design, or digital health strategy.
Please note:
All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.
Security Screening:
A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.
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