Lead Clinical Informatics Systems Adoption Specialist - Oracle Health Surgery and Anesthesia

Community Health Systems Professional Services Corporation•Franklin, TN

About The Position

The Lead Clinical Informatics Systems Adoption Specialist supports and leads Surgery and Anesthesia informatics activities related to Oracle Health Cerner conversions, upgrades, implementations, and workflow changes across multiple facilities. The role serves as a subject matter expert in perioperative and anesthesia workflows, including pre-operative assessment, surgical scheduling, perioperative and anesthesia documentation, clinical decision support, perioperative tracking, and post-anesthesia recovery. The specialist coordinates training, readiness, workflow validation, go-live support, and post-live stabilization so clinical teams can safely and consistently adopt new or changed workflows. The role partners with surgical services, anesthesia providers, nursing leadership, operational leaders, implementation teams, and application teams to assess workflow impacts, prepare users, reinforce standard processes, and resolve adoption barriers. It translates system and workflow changes into practical education, competency validation, and optimization recommendations intended to improve clinician efficiency, patient safety, regulatory compliance, and workflow standardization. Travel is greater than 50%.

Requirements

Bachelor's or master's degree in Allied Health, Healthcare Informatics, Information Technology, or a related field; a combination of relevant education, certifications, and physician-workflow training or clinical informatics experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Seven years of experience training clinicians, clinical informatics education, or system adoption, including substantial experience with Oracle Health Cerner Surgery and/or Anesthesia workflows; alternatively, five years training clinicians with demonstrated expertise in Oracle Health Cerner Surgery and Anesthesia workflows and a bachelor's or master's degree.
Expert knowledge of perioperative and anesthesia clinical workflows and the training implications of complex, high-risk clinical processes.
Advanced proficiency with Oracle Health Cerner Surgery and Anesthesia functionality, role-based workflows, and adoption considerations.
Ability to work effectively in a team with guidance from senior leaders.
Strong customer-service orientation and clear communication skills.
Expert-level instructional design, adult learning, simulation, facilitation, and competency-validation skills.
Strong facilitation and coaching skills across diverse learner groups.
Deep understanding of clinical workflows, safety, and policy impacts.
Ability to design valid assessments and interpret competency data.
Advanced change-management, stakeholder-engagement, and cross-functional leadership skills.
Advanced proficiency with learning-management, reporting, content-development, virtual-learning, and Microsoft 365 tools.
Ability to lead complex initiatives, manage interdependencies, and communicate recommendations to clinical, operational, and technology leaders.

Nice To Haves

Oracle Health Cerner Surgery certification.
Oracle Health Cerner Anesthesia certification.
Perioperative, surgical services, anesthesia, PACU, or procedural services experience.
Clinical workflow optimization and implementation experience.
Multi-facility training and adoption experience.
Active clinical licensure (e.g., RN, RT, PharmD, or similar) is preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide advanced go-live, hypercare, stabilization, and end-user support for Surgery and Anesthesia implementations, upgrades, conversions, and optimization initiatives.
Plan and execute onboarding programs for Surgery and Anesthesia clinicians using standardized workflows and competency-validation methods.
Design and facilitate workflow-practice scenarios and competency validation for high-risk surgical and anesthesia processes, including preoperative, intraoperative, post-anesthesia, recovery, and procedural documentation workflows.
Develop workflow-validation scenarios and coordinate onboarding and assigned learning pathways for perioperative staff, anesthesia providers, and surgical leadership.
Manage assigned training, onboarding, readiness, and adoption activities with limited supervision.
Create and maintain lesson plans, facilitator guides, learner resources, job aids, workflow diagrams, scenario-based learning materials, curricula, simulation scenarios, competency assessments, and workflow guides.
Develop competency models and readiness-assessment tools for perioperative and anesthesia workflows.
Document workflow requirements and training impacts related to system changes, and translate approved changes and workflow decisions into training and readiness requirements.
Maintain training and educational resources using established content-management, governance, and version-control practices.
Partner with clinical leaders, operational stakeholders, physician and nursing informatics teams, application teams, educators, and project teams to support adoption and organizational readiness.
Coordinate educational communications, super-user engagement, and readiness initiatives; represent training, readiness, adoption, and workflow requirements in governance and project discussions.
Identify workflow variation and support clinical standardization across facilities; coach and advise adoption specialists through knowledge sharing, simulation design, workflow education, and issue-escalation guidance.
Analyze workflows to identify adoption barriers, inefficiencies, variation, and optimization opportunities; refine educational content based on feedback and outcomes.
Evaluate workflow utilization, training effectiveness, competency outcomes, and adoption metrics, and recommend improvements to efficiency, adoption, patient safety, documentation quality, and operational performance.
Support workflow optimization and sustained adoption through targeted education, reinforcement, readiness strategies, and change-support activities.
Ensure educational content aligns with clinical-practice standards, organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and enterprise workflow standards.
Lead workflow-validation activities, dress rehearsals, and end-user readiness assessments; maintain compliance with training, documentation, governance, and workflow standards.
Evaluate documentation quality, workflow compliance, and adoption effectiveness; identify and communicate readiness, workflow, adoption, and training risks through established channels.
Coordinate issue identification, escalation, and targeted re-education during stabilization.
Provide advanced expertise and consultation on Oracle Health Cerner Surgery and Anesthesia applications, workflow adoption, readiness planning, training strategy, competency development, and optimization.
Contribute to enterprise training standards, adoption methodologies, simulation practices, readiness frameworks, and clinical-enablement strategies, and support colleagues' professional growth through mentorship and knowledge sharing.