Epidemiologist
Your Opportunity:
Are you an experienced Analytics professional with a passion for health outcome and systems improvement? Covenant Health is seeking an Epidemiologist to further develop our Infection, Prevention and Control, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, and Occupational Health and Wellness reporting. Deliverables are expected at the corporate, site and local level decision-making to inform practice changes and ultimately outcome improvements. As a leader in health care related data science, your diverse skills and abilities as it relates to technical data management, analysis, surveillance, data visualization, and research and knowledge translation will all be utilized. You have technically sound analytics skills and are able to communicate key findings clearly both visually and in a presentation format. In this emerging role, the incumbent will develop and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders, Physicians, leaders and other members within the Analytics team. This position will also play a key role in supporting the Analytics team in completing complex analytical queries.
Description:
The Epidemiologist role is responsible for developing and deploying various surveillance and reporting requirements as required within Covenant Health. Many of the work deliverables are time-sensitive, requiring the incumbent to possess considerable technical and problem solving proficiencies. Additionally, the role requirements are dynamic in terms of organizational requirements, data sets, tools, processes and overall function.
- Classification: Epidemiologist
- Union: COV OUT OF SCOPE
- Department: Strategic Analytics Technical
- Primary Location: Grey Nuns Community Hospital
- Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 21-MAR-2022
- Date Available: 31-MAR-2022
- Temporary End Date: 04-OCT-2023
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Salary: Covenant Health offers a competitive compensation and benefits package
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Required Qualifications:
Master’s degree in Public Health or Science with a focus in Epidemiology. Ph.D. in Epidemiology, Health Sciences or applicable discipline preferred.
Additional Required Qualifications:
5 - 10 years of analytics experience within the Alberta Health Care system. Broad based skills and ability to analyse, visualize, summarise and interpret complex data. Preferred Oracle SQL or other comparable database query and report writing experience. Experience in creating and publishing Tableau dashboards. Experience with outbreak reporting and analysis. Experience developing surveillance plans, goals, objectives and reports based on infection prevention and control risk assessment. Experience with extracting data from pharmacy systems and reporting drug utilization data. Excellent oral and written communication skills in order to communicate ideas and methods clearly and succinctly. Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders. The ability to liaise with a range of health professionals and scientific and industry specialists. Knowledge of applicable regulatory considerations as it relates to but is not limited to: the utilization and access of health information from a research, operational and legislative perspective (Health Information Act, FOIPP).
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in qualitative research methods preferred. Experience with Infection, Prevention and Control and/or Antimicrobial Stewardship related data sets (Pharmacy, Laboratory or DAD). Project Management experience. Research Experience . Completion of Infection Prevention & Control Canada (IPAC) course preferred. Certification in Infection Control & Epidemiology (CIC designation) preferred.
