Application Lead, HIM, Remote

Job Title:

Application Lead, HIM

Location:

Barnabas Health Corp

Department: IT&S HIM

Req#:

Status:
Full-Time

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $ - $ per year

Pay Transparency:

The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

Job Overview:

The Application Lead is primarily responsible for providing day-to-day leadership to the functional team for all core activities pertaining to the planning and execution of projects related to the application build, implementation, and support. The Application Lead is responsible for the overall design and development of the application and is required to gain in-depth knowledge of the application and software. The Application Lead is expected to be knowledgeable about organizational policies, procedures and business operations, as well as the area of business they are representing and the functionality available in the application(s).

The Application Lead will communicate with vendor installation team, review the software, analyze business operations, work with vendors and end-users to tailor the system to the organization, and participate in the pilot training of end-users (as needed). This role will participate in current state mapping and future state workflows development, application design and development, testing support, issues resolution application integration, implementation and ongoing support activities.

The Application Lead will identify and manage resistance to change as related to their respective application of responsibility.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Associate’s degree with six or more years of relevant work experience
• Strong assertiveness skills and ability to manage conflict in a variety of situations.
• Superior organizational and people management skills
• Demonstrated ability to align and motivate key process stakeholders, including nurses, physicians, and other clinical/administrative staff
• Demonstrated ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience Moving down in order of pertinence
• 6+ years prior system build experience
• 3+ years of relevant experience functioning in a leadership capacity with leading teams and work groups

Certifications and Licenses

Required:

• Certification in Epic HIM
  • Release Information
  • Coding & Abstracting
  • Deficiency Tracking
• Applicant is expected to maintain certification as current by completing New Version Training (NVT), as applicable.

Scheduling Requirements

• This is a full-time, mostly remote position
• Must come onsite within the RWJBarnabas Health System a minimum of 2 times per year

Essential Functions:

The Application Lead is primarily responsible for providing day-to-day leadership to the functional team for all core activities pertaining to the planning and execution of projects related to the application build, implementation, and support. In addition to the duties discussed in the Role Description, the Application Lead is responsible for the following:

1) Defining Systems Requirements:

• Collaborating to understand and execute the application architecture and integration

• Serving as a business unit expert to set the direction for the organization's workflows by attending site visits, validation sessions, and other integrated sessions

• Investigating end-user requirements and needs, applying potential solutions and pressure-testing solutions using an agile method

• Analyzing data conversion needs

• Preparing details of specifications as needed

• Achieving in-depth knowledge of the software and serving as a bridge between end-users and vendor implementation staff

• Understanding choices in application specifications

• Assessing implementation strategies and the impact those strategies will have on workflows and operations

• Analyzing new functionality in new releases to determine whether or how it should be used

• Documenting current and new workflows and understanding how workflow decisions translate to application configurations

• Performing…