Your Opportunity:
Are you an innovative, analytical Health Information Management (HIM) leader ready to take the next step in your career? Alberta Health Services (AHS) is seeking a dynamic and accomplished HIM professional to join our team as Manager, Provincial Services. In this pivotal role, you will lead with vision, drive innovation, and make a lasting impact on provincial HIM operations. Reporting directly to the Director, HIM South Zone and Provincial Services, this leadership role is responsible for guiding two provincial teams, Access and Disclosure and Provincial Speech Recognition, in alignment with AHS’s mission and business strategy. You'll make key decisions that shape service delivery, foster psychological safety, and promote a resilient workforce. With strong change management skills, you will lead teams through transformation, optimize workflows, and build strategic relationships with stakeholders to drive efficiency across provincial HIM services.
Description:
This role requires expertise in HIM governance, privacy regulations, health information disclosure standards, data security, and change management, alongside an understanding of speech recognition technology. The successful candidate will bring strategic thinking, leadership excellence, and a commitment to enhancing HIM services across Alberta. As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize healthcare and HIM operations, the Manager will play a crucial role in leveraging AI and automation to streamline workflows, enhance data accuracy, and improve decision-making processes. From optimizing speech recognition technology to enhancing access and disclosure processes, AI presents a unique opportunity to elevate operational efficiency while maintaining compliance with provincial HIM standards. A bit more about the teams: The Access and Disclosure team provides release of health information services in alignment with the Health Information Act and other applicable legislation. Provincial Speech Recognition (PSR) – provides training, adoption and optimization of the AHS speech recognition tool, Dragon Medical One (DMO). The team also supports ongoing documentation quality improvement initiatives.
- Acute Care Alberta: N
- Primary Care Alberta: N
- Recovery Alberta: N
- Classification: Manager
- Union: Exempt
- Unit and Program: Health Information Management
- Primary Location: South Health Campus
- 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: 02-JUL-2025
- Date Available: 14-JUL-2025
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $44.17
- Maximum Salary: $75.70
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
A minimum of bachelor’s degree in health information management or other healthcare or leadership related business degree. Successful completion of a health information management program certified by the Canadian College of Health Information Management and an active certification credential with the Canadian Health Information Management Association. A minimum of 5 years in a Health Informatics/Health Information Management role ideally in an organization of significant size, complexity and diversity. Progressive leadership experience in a health information management related field environment, including 5 years’ experience in a management role in a Health Information Management department or related operations including release of information.
Additional Required Qualifications:
Demonstrated knowledge of applicable legislation. Effective communicator with strong organizational skills, influential skills, client focused orientation and commitment to providing quality services. Leadership skills, including demonstrated ability and comfort with decision making responsibilities, coaching and teaching, and the ability to inspire and build confidence in others. Demonstrated ability to manage change and create innovative solutions for complex and diverse issues. Ability to manage human, financial and physical resources within an operating environment. Proven ability to foster partnerships and to achieve organizational goals within an organization and ideally managing within a unionized sector. Ability to plan, organize and manage short- and long-term plans and projects and deliver customer-focused results.
Preferred Qualifications:
Proven planning and commissioning skills related to new or modified health information/records management services in new areas/sites. Experience in the implementation of health information management business transformation strategies using technology.
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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We’re passionate about what we do. Our team of skilled and dedicated health care professionals, support staff, and physicians promote wellness and provide health care every day, all across Alberta.
Everything we do at AHS reflects a patient and family centred approach; it’s about putting patients’ and families’ experiences, priorities and trust first.
We are an equal opportunity employer. AHS values the diversity of the people and communities we serve and is committed to attracting, engaging and developing a diverse and inclusive workforce.
