Your Opportunity:

Join us in advancing how clinical systems are designed and optimized to support real-world specialty practice 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 - Specialty Care (formerly CKCM). You should apply if: You are an experienced clinical informatician who understands that effective system design must reflect the realities of specialty-specific clinical practice. You have worked closely with clinical teams and know that meaningful improvement comes from integrating informatics standards with deep specialty knowledge and workflow insight. You are skilled at bridging enterprise direction with local context-ensuring consistency and standardization while enabling flexibility to meet the needs of diverse clinical environments. You are comfortable leading through complexity, working across multidisciplinary teams, and supporting the delivery of clinical system improvements at scale. You are motivated to enable high-quality, efficient, and sustainable clinical practice through thoughtful system design, and to support teams in translating informatics strategy into real-world implementation. This is a unique opportunity to lead at the intersection of informatics, operations, and clinical practice-scaling improvements that are both standardized and deeply grounded in specialty care.

Description:

The Director, Specialty Care leads a team responsible for applying informatics standards and specialty-specific expertise to the design, build, and optimization of clinical systems across Connect Care and other Digital Health platforms. The role provides enterprise leadership to ensure clinical system improvements are scalable, consistent, and grounded in real-world practice. Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities: Leads and develops a team delivering specialty-focused clinical informatics and system improvement. Translates enterprise informatics strategy into specialty-specific implementation approaches. Applies informatics and build standards within specialty contexts across care settings. Ensures system design reflects real-world clinical workflows and practice variation. Partners with clinical programs and operations to identify and prioritize improvement opportunities. Leads specialty engagement in clinical system design, build, and optimization. Balances standardization with appropriate specialty-specific configuration. Oversees consistent application of build standards and design principles across specialties. Supports delivery of Clinical System Improvement (CSI) initiatives across domains. Partners with IT and application teams to enable effective and sustainable system changes. Ensures alignment with enterprise priorities, governance, and provincial strategies. Identifies and mitigates risks related to system design, adoption, and workflow integration. Enables scalable models for specialty engagement and delivery across the enterprise. Supports evaluation of system changes to ensure impact on practice and outcomes. Provides enterprise leadership to ensure consistency, scalability, and sustainability of specialty care strategies.