Director, Nurse Informatics (Technology)

DaVita Kidney Care • Maxatawny Township, PA

1d • $85,000 - $135,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Director, Nurse Informatics directs the corporate strategy for translating clinical user needs into robust Information Technology solutions. This role bridges clinical practice and technology to align systems with clinical workflows, enhance direct patient care, and improve population-level health outcomes across DaVita’s healthcare ecosystem. Additionally, the Director provides direct people leadership, strategic mentorship, and operational oversight to Nurse Informaticists within the IT organization.

Requirements

• Clinical user needs translated into robust Information Technology solutions.
• Alignment of systems with clinical workflows.
• Enhancement of direct patient care.
• Improvement of population-level health outcomes.
• Direct people leadership, strategic mentorship, and operational oversight to Nurse Informaticists within the IT organization.
• Clinical domain expertise.
• Structured performance improvement methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct leadership, coaching, talent development, and oversight to one or more Nurse Informaticists within the IT / CMIO team.
• Drive clinical process innovation, continuous improvement initiatives, and enterprise-wide clinical change management strategies across healthcare lanes.
• Serve as the designated clinical subject matter expert (SME) and strategic consultant on behalf of the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) across executive forums, cross-functional committees, and working groups.
• Translate overarching clinical objectives into scalable IT solutions. Elicit detailed functional and workflow requirements from clinical staff, the Office of the Chief Medical Officer (OCMO), CMIO, product managers/directors/owners, UX designers, operations, and executive leadership.
• Leverage clinical domain expertise and structured performance improvement methodologies to facilitate stakeholder sessions that identify operational challenges and architect evidence-based IT solutions.
• Deliver hands-on expertise and strategic clinical governance for urgent, high-impact, and clinically focused technology initiatives.
• Collaborate with clinical and operational business leaders across all lanes to establish consistency in care delivery, documentation workflows, care efficiency, clinical quality, cost optimization, and patient/caregiver satisfaction.
• Perform additional responsibilities and strategic projects as business needs dictate.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out
• Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave
• Professional development programs
• On-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed