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Epidemiologist
Temporary; Full-time (Two Years)
Competition Number: 2022 EPI 025 (please quote in application)
Location: St. John’s, NL
Salary Scale: $65,339 – $84,941 (HL 20)
Closing Date: May 24, 2022
About Us
At the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information (the Centre) we provide quality information to health professionals, the public, researchers, and health system decision makers. Through collaboration with the health system, we support the development of data and technical standards, maintain key health databases, carry out analytics and evaluation and support health research. We support the regional health authorities, as well as the patients and communities they serve, in the delivery of information technology (IT) and eHealth services applied in the healthcare system to provide quality care. Our mandate also includes the development and implementation of a confidential and secure provincial electronic health record as well as other provincial clinical information programs, including the change management required to support adoption by end user clinicians.
About the Role
We are currently looking for an Epidemiologist to join our Data and Information Services team. In this position you will have the following responsibilities:
- Lead health analytics, epidemiologic, surveillance, and health system performance initiatives which support the decision-making needs of the regional health authorities, Department of Health and Community Services and other government departments. This includes data processing, data linkage, complex data analysis, interpretation of findings using both epidemiological and statistical knowledge, and preparation of reports and other knowledge transfer tools.
- Develop information for government to assess the impact of potential policy changes on the health system.
- Exercise sound judgement and undertake in-depth assessment to make recommendations regarding the appropriate collection and use of data to support the information needs of government.
- Respond to requests for information from health system stakeholders through stakeholder consultation, data linkage, statistical analysis, interpretation of findings, and preparation of reports and other knowledge transfer tools.
- Serve as a subject matter expert and provides consultation to external stakeholders who are requesting record-level data from the Centre.
- Liaise with multiple stakeholders including federal/ provincial/regional levels of government, the academic community, and professional agencies.
About You
Your education and experience include:
- Master’s degree in epidemiology, community health, public health, social sciences or a related field.
- Minimum of five years’ experience in a health analytics field leading initiatives involving extraction and linkage of large amounts of data and application of epidemiologic methods.
- Preference will be given to candidates with experience in chronic disease surveillance, primary healthcare, health service utilization, health outcomes, health system costing, and health system performance.
- Experience collaborating with stakeholders within the health system.
You have the following skills and abilities:
- Experienced in data extraction and linkage.
- Experienced in SAS.
- Understanding of the health care system, administrative health data and electronic health information systems.
- Knowledge of and work experience in health analytics, epidemiology, and surveillance.
- Ability to function in high pressure, diverse, and changing environment.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
- Outstanding time management and organizational skills.
- Self-motivated and able to work independently as well in a team environment.
It would be an asset if you have:
- Knowledge and experience with the use of health information systems such as Meditech.
- Experience using business intelligence tools (e.g., Cognos/SAP).
- Knowledge and experience with the use of visualization tools and GIS mapping software.
Demonstrated equivalencies may be considered.
Other Information
We can offer you a respectful and engaging workplace that provides:
- Meaningful work
- Medical and dental benefits
- A defined benefit pension plan
- Flexible work arrangements (flex time; compressed; remote)
- Work-life balance
- A generous paid leave program (six weeks)
- An active social club
- An employee and family assistance program
- An innovative, energetic, and forward-thinking workplace culture
If you are interested in this challenging and rewarding career opportunity, please apply through https://www.nlchi.nl.ca/index.php/careers.
Please note: We frequently post or see our job ads on job aggregators, which are essentially search engines for job postings. In most circumstances these aggregator sites ask you to apply for the posted job directly on their platform and we will not directly receive your application. To ensure your application is received and reviewed, we kindly ask that if you have an interest in applying with NLCHI that you do so by visiting https://www.nlchi.nl.ca/index.php/careers.
We thank all candidates for their interest; however only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.
Any offer of employment will be conditional upon completion of required background checks including acceptable professional reference checks, provision of a satisfactory certificate of conduct, confirmation of educational credentials, verification of full vaccination or approved exemption for COVID-19, and validation of legal entitlement to work in Canada, if applicable.
For more information, please visit www.nlchi.nl.ca.
Applicants agree that by providing personal information in response to this ad, they consent to the collection, use and disclosure of personal information required for the purposes of recruitment. Personal information will be used solely for the purpose of recruitment considerations for a period of one year following closing date of this competition, unless otherwise noted by the applicant.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $65,339.00-$84,941.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule
- Flextime
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care
- Work from home
Schedule:
Application deadline: 2022-05-24
