Internal Interest Posting Nursing Champion (WHCA) #2026-159
About The Position
Wellington Health Care Alliance (WHCA) is seeking a Nursing Champion at each of its three hospital sites (Palmerston & District Hospital, Louise Marshall Hospital, and Groves Memorial Community Hospital) to support the planning and implementation of a modern Health Information System (HIS). The Nursing Champion is a site-based clinical leadership role for nurses who want to help shape how HIS is implemented at the front line. Nursing Champions will serve as the primary nursing voice and liaison at their site, bridging bedside practice with project team decisions. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on care delivery while building practical experience in digital health and clinical transformation. Project work will report to the HIS project team (primary manager will remain unchanged from base position). The Nursing Champion will represent nursing perspectives at their assigned site throughout the HIS implementation, from workflow design through go-live and stabilization. These roles are designed to leverage the Nursing Champion's direct clinical experience to ensure the HIS is configured and implemented in a way that reflects real front-line nursing workflows, supports patient safety, and builds nursing confidence in the new system.
Requirements
- Registered Nurse (RN) or Registered Practical Nurse (RPN) in good standing with the CNO
- Minimum 3 years of clinical nursing experience
- Strong understanding of nursing workflows, patient documentation, and care delivery at WHCA or a comparable organization
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to engage and support nursing peers through change
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Meditech or other electronic health record systems
- Involvement in quality improvement, workflow redesign, or clinical education initiatives
- Previous experience as a super user, peer educator, or project team contributor
- Interest in clinical informatics or digital health
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary nursing voice at your site throughout the HIS implementation
- Participate in current-state and future-state nursing workflow analysis
- Review and validate order sets, nursing documentation, and clinical workflows for nursing alignment
- Ensure HIS configuration reflects safe nursing practice and documentation requirements are properly captured
- Participate in system and user acceptance testing from a nursing perspective
- Identify, document, and escalate nursing-related issues or gaps identified during testing
- Review and validate clinical content such as medication administration workflows, documentation templates, and care plans
- Support development of nursing-specific training materials and tip sheets
- Provide peer coaching and at-the-elbow support to nursing staff during training and go-live
- Help identify super users and informal nurse leaders who can provide ongoing peer support
- Act as a visible, trusted point of contact for nursing staff questions and concerns at your site
- Communicate project updates, timelines, and decisions back to front-line nursing teams
- Gather and relay front-line nursing feedback to the project team
- Participate in site-level nursing leadership meetings as appropriate
- Work closely with the Clinical Informatics Lead, Physician Champions, and the broader HIS project team
- Partner with the site Clinical Manager, Business Transformation Specialist, and nursing leadership to support change readiness
- Collaborate with Nursing Champions at other WHCA sites to share learnings and promote consistency
Benefits
- Workload adjustments and/or backfill will be coordinated with department leadership
- Time commitment will vary by project phase; this will be communicated to candidates in advance
- Nursing Champions will have access to training, project resources, and peer support throughout the implementation
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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