Job Description

Description

Join Our Team at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center!**

We are dedicated to providing high-quality, compassionate care to our diverse community. As a leading healthcare provider, we offer a supportive and inclusive work environment. If you’re passionate about making a difference and thrive in a collaborative setting, Bergen New Bridge Medical Center is looking for an Epic Project Director.

The Project Director, under the direction of the executive steering committee and the project Executive Sponsors, guides the project team through implementation, onward to maintenance all while a deriving long-term strategy and vision for the department. The Project Director is the central point of communication, maintaining a common vision, plan, and goal across all areas of the department.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Providing organizational knowledge and guidance for the team to facilitate decision making.

• Managing the scope, cost, schedule, and quality of all current and future projects.

• Staff management and resource allocation.

• Being familiar with all aspects of the Epic Implementation, maintenance and long-term options.

• Coordinating all project activities, including software and hardware, business and related tasks, establishing/maintaining a super user program, internal communications and change management, recruiting and engaging super users and subject matter experts.

• Establish standards around project delivery, templates and reporting.

• Communicating with leaders in the hospital(s), clinics, and billing office(s).

• Setting appropriate expectations across the organization in relation to current and future projects.

• Building and maintaining morale.

• Promoting the system and representing it positively to the user community.

• Reviewing the progress of any project regularly with EPIC and organization leadership.

• Coordinating the organization's overall needs and direction with EPIC.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Experience leading large teams of individuals and the ability to manage staff effectively.

• Strong communication and organizational skills.

• Past success with large scale projects.

Key competencies

Adaptability/flexibility

• Demonstrating flexibility with respect to changing end-user business needs

Critical thinking

• The ability and willingness to see things in an open-minded way and examine an idea or concept from as many angles as possible

Dependability

• The ability and willingness to take ownership of work activities and ensure that they are completed in an accurate, efficient, and timely manner

Initiative

• The ability and willingness to recognize assignments or tasks that need to be completed, to seek out additional assignments or tasks, and to help others

Interpersonal skills

• The ability to communicate information clearly and concisely with project leadership and subject matter experts

Learning

• The ability and willingness to learn new software and systems

Listening

• Listening attentively to ensure that the intended message has been accurately received, holding responses until the person has finished making his/her point, and repeating information to ensure accuracy

Problem solving

• Seeking, logically examining, and interpreting information from different sources to determine a problem's cause and developing a course of action to resolve the problem and to prevent its recurrence

Relationship building

• The ability to gain trust and establish effective relationships with Epic counterparts.

Resilience

• The ability to persevere in difficult situations, overcome obstacles, and reach high levels of performance when faced with stressful work situations and time pressures.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree, any field.

• Healthcare experience required.

• Epic experience required.

• Project Management certification preferred, project management experience required.

• Complete assigned EPIC Certification(s) and/or training within 90 days of employment.

Salary commensurate with experience within posted range

Salary: $130,000 to $150,000

We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including a competitive medical, dental, and vision plans. We prioritize work-life balance with a generous time off policy that includes ample vacation days, personal time, sick leave and nine paid holidays. Additionally, we are committed to the personal and professional growth of our employees, offering robust tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs to help support our employees ongoing development.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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Job Tags

Full time, Work at office,

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