RN Health Informatics Specialist

RN Health Informatics Specialist

Banner University Medical Center Tucson is nationally recognized for providing exceptional patient care, teaching future health care professionals and conducting groundbreaking research.

As an RN Health Informatics Specialist, your primary responsibility of this position is to serve as a strategic partner between clinical operations, end users, and technology teams to support and optimize perioperative clinical systems and workflows. As part of the Health Informatics team, this role provides system-level support for perioperative operations, helping to develop, implement, maintain, and improve clinical technologies and processes within a highly specialized care environment. This is a customer-facing role that works closely with clinical and operational leaders to identify opportunities for improvement, resolve workflow and technology challenges, and ensure clinical systems effectively support patient care and operational goals. This position also contributes to data-driven decision-making by supporting the collection, interpretation, and reporting of key operational and clinical metrics. In collaboration with business stakeholders, Informatics colleagues, and Information Technology teams across Banner, this role helps translate business needs into practical solutions that optimize workflows, improve user experiences, and turn data into actionable insights that drive organizational success.

Two to four years of experience working within a Perioperative and or fast-paced acute critical care setting, and two or more years of data analytics experience and advance knowledge of MS, and Excel is strongly preferred. The schedule for this position will be Monday - Friday daytime, hours will be discussed during your interview. Some assignments require weekend coverage.

Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.

This position is responsible for collaborating in the development, implementation, and operational support of all clinical technologies and processes, within a specialty area on a system-level base. This position provides informatics expertise and is responsible for the development, interpretation, and maintenance of statistical data necessary for driving key business decisions to assigned business owners in an accurate and timely manner. Partners and aligns with business experts, other informatics team, and IT across the Banner enterprise to deliver solutions that turn data into actions. Seeks to optimize clinical systems design to meet organizational improvement objectives and strategic goals while balancing the needs of all user requirements related to interdisciplinary users of these systems. Fosters teamwork through collaboration with department leaders, clinicians, project managers, and technical experts to ensure the design and deployment of clinical related applications that result in improved patient care and outcomes.

Core functions include performing standard assignments within own job functions, identifying and solving a range of problems in straightforward situations, responding to non-standard requests from internal and/or external customers, and making decisions within guidelines and policies that impact own priorities and allocation of time to meet deadlines.

Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent related experience, Registered Nurse (R.N.) licensure in practicing state, proficiency in the use of system office applications, and a basic understanding of integrated clinical systems. Preferred qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Certification in Nursing Informatics, two plus years of experience performing financial, analytical, and/or statistical work, preferably in a healthcare setting in addition to experience in working with Microsoft Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint.