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Manager – Epic Beaker Clinical Pathology (CP) - (Remote Available)

Vanderbilt Health is a growing health system anchored by Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Employee count: 5000+

United States only

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Organization:

HealthIT Beaker

Job Summary:

The Manager – Epic Beaker, will lead and support our Beaker CP implementation and will require in-depth knowledge of the Epic implementation lifecycle. This role also should have strong knowledge of Epic Inpatient Orders, Ambulatory and Optime build concepts, as well as Clinical Pathology workflows, for ultimate success. The role utilizes core management skills to lead team(s) in resource planning, product design, and monitoring to meet the strategic direction and priorities of the department. Develops and ensures compliance with standards and processes for products and services. Acts as a liaison to business managers to ensure products deliver value and meet business expectations. Leads product managers in analyzing market for new product and service trends, capabilities, and scalability.

Note: This role is available for remote work in most areas of US.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Managing IT staff by recruiting and training employees, communicating job expectations, assigning projects/tasks, and monitoring performance.

  • Ensures staff alignment with mission and strategic plan.

  • Ensures staff compliance with budgets, resource allocation, operational plans, and policies.

  • Ensures that projects stay on track and regularly communicates status to department leadership and business/operational leaders.

  • Regularly review/implement advances in technology and industry best practices.

  • Assists with preparation of operating and capital budgets following established guidelines and using benchmark data.

  • The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor's degree (required)

  • Recent Beaker CP course completion (certification a plus)

  • Recent Beaker CP implementation experience preferred

  • CP lab experience preferred

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

  • Operations Planning (Intermediate): Anticipates resource needs to meet objectives and implements appropriate processes.

  • Leadership (Intermediate): Formulates a vision while motivating & guiding employees promoting engagement. Leaders state precise goals, ensures the commitment of individuals to those goals, defines the methods of measurement, and provides the incentive to accomplish measureable outcomes.

  • Quality Management (Intermediate): Developing a systematic process of checking to see whether a process or service is meeting specific requirements.

  • Business Results (Intermediate): Ability to achieve business results while focusing on quality, customer satisfaction, and stewardship.

  • People Management (Intermediate): Interacting, communicating, building relationships and developing employees.

  • Compliance (Intermediate): Understanding the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.

About the Department:

Health IT

HealthIT provides the best health information technology tools that support Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s mission of:

  • Delivering distinctively personalized care

  • Improving the health care of individuals and communities regionally, nationally and internationally

  • Providing transformative learning programs

  • Supporting compelling discoveries

Our tools, which form the digital arteries of VUMC, are either developed in-house by our innovative product teams or selected from the most cutting-edge solutions available in today’s ever-changing marketplace. Our 500 colleagues provide ongoing support over each product’s entire lifespan, ensuring that the tools are meeting the evolving needs of the Medical Center’s 24,000 colleagues.

Our solutions are driven by the incredible work and research of our colleagues throughout Vanderbilt and supported through a close partnership with VUMC Information Technology (VUMC IT). The strong collaboration among our teams means that VUMC can respond to clinical and operational issues with agility and innovation. Together, we ensure VUMC remains a leader in its pioneering use of healthcare information technology.

Underscoring our entire department are our core values of accountability, transparency and execution, delivered with a strong Partner Promise.

Our professional administrative functions include critical supporting roles in information technology and informatics, finance, administration, legal and community affairs, human resources, communications and marketing, development, facilities, and many more.

At our growing health system, we support each other and encourage excellence among all who are part of our workforce. High-achieving employees stay at Vanderbilt Health for professional growth, appreciation of benefits, and a sense of community and purpose.

Core Accountabilities:

* Organizational Impact: Directs activities to achieve operational plans with some near term effect on results of the department/area.* Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Identifies issues, gathers facts to resolve technical and operational problems. * Breadth of Knowledge: Applies in-depth knowledge and skills of a professional/technical area and basic management knowledge to manage the work of the team.* Team Interaction: Leads a complex department with a focus on implementation. Typically executes on a short to medium term strategies.

Core Capabilities :

Supporting Colleagues: - Develops Self and Others: Invests time, energy, and enthusiasm in developing self/others to help improve performance e and gain knowledge in new areas. - Builds and Maintains Relationships: Maintains regular contact with key colleagues and stakeholders using formal and informal opportunities to expand and strengthen relationships. - Communicates Effectively: Recognizes group interactions and modifies one's own communication style to suit different situations and audiences .Delivering Excellent Services : - Serves Others with Compassion: Seeks to understand current and future needs of relevant stakeholders and customizes services to better address them. - Solves Complex Problems: Approaches problems from different angles; Identifies new possibilities to interpret opportunities and develop concrete solutions. - Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Provides ongoing support and coaching in a constructive manner to increase employees' effectiveness. Ensuring High Quality - Performs Excellent Work: Engages regularly in formal and informal dialogue about quality; directly addresses quality issues promptly. - Ensures Continuous Improvement: Applies various learning experiences by looking beyond symptoms to uncover underlying causes of problems and identifies ways to resolve them. - Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Understands all aspects of providing a safe environment and performs routine safety checks to prevent safety hazards from occurring. Managing Resources Effectively: - Demonstrates Accountability: Demonstrates a sense of ownership, focusing on and driving critical issues to closure.- Stewards Organizational Resources: Applies understanding of the departmental work to effectively manage resources for a department/area. - Makes Data Driven Decisions: Demonstrates strong understanding of the information or data to identify and elevate opportunities. Fostering Innovation: - Generates New Ideas: Proactively identifies new ideas/opportunities from multiple sources or methods to improve processes beyond conventional approaches. - Applies Technology: Demonstrates an enthusiasm for learning new technologies, tools, and procedures to address short-term challenges. - Adapts to Change: Views difficult situations and/or problems as opportunities for improvement; actively embraces change instead of emphasizing negative elements.

Position Qualifications:

Responsibilities:

Certifications:

Work Experience:

Relevant Work Experience

Experience Level:

5 years

Education:

Bachelor's (Required)

Vanderbilt Health is committed to fostering an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. EOE/Vets/Disabled.

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About Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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Vanderbilt Health is a growing health system anchored by Vanderbilt University Medical Center. It is one of the largest and most prominent academic medical centers in Southeast, with seven hospitals and more than 180 clinics across Tennessee and neighboring states.

Based in Nashville, Vanderbilt Health is a resource for patients and clinicians throughout Tennessee and beyond to provide advanced care, from the simplest condition to the most complex and rare illnesses and injuries.

Through a network of regional hospitals and clinics, we offer the best, right care in the best, right setting – which may be on our 21st Avenue campus in Nashville or increasingly is in communities closer to home.

A leading employer

Vanderbilt Health employs nearly 40,000 nurses, physicians, researchers, trainees and more, making it the largest non-government employer in Middle Tennessee.

Exceptional care close to home

Vanderbilt Health has 1,741 licensed hospital beds across 7 hospitals:

  • Vanderbilt University Hospital

  • Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt

  • Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital

  • Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital

  • Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital

  • Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital

  • Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital

By the numbers

  • 3.2 million patient visits

  • 194,000 telehealth visits

  • 79,000 surgeries

  • 78,000 hospital discharges

  • 204,000 emergency department visits

  • 5,000 Lifeflight air transports

  • 2,000 employed physicians

  • More than 1,200 resident physicians

  • $952 million in charity care and other community benefits

(All fiscal 2023)

Caring spirit and distinct capabilities

Vanderbilt Health provides our community with many unique and specialized services including:

  • The region's Level 1 Trauma Center and Burn Center

  • Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, with a Level IV neonatal intensive care unit

  • Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the region

A pioneering transplant center

Vanderbilt Health performed a record 809 organ transplants during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, 760 of them in adults and 49 in children.

Adult programs in heart, lung, liver and kidney transplantation also set individual program records.

  • 150 heart transplants

  • 90 lung transplants

  • 180 liver transplants

  • 333 kidney transplants

Monroe Carell set a new record in pediatric liver transplants, with 26 performed during FY24. The pediatric transplant team also performed 14 kidney transplants and 9 heart transplants.

Nationally Ranked Care and Discovery

World-leading academic departments and centers make scientific discoveries, advance clinical care and train the next generation of health care professionals.

  • VUMC offers more than 100 residency and fellowship programs and trains more than 1,000 resident physicians each year.

  • VUMC is among the top 10 centers in the country as measured by highly competitive, peer-reviewed grant funding from the National Institutes of Health. In FY23, total NIH grant funding awarded to VUMC investigators totalled $527.7 million.

  • VUMC is consistently considered among the nation’s best hospitals. We're nationally ranked by U.S. News and World Report in multiple adult and pediatric specialties for treating the most complex cases. In addition, Vanderbilt University Hospital, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital are rated among the nation's best by the Leapfrog Group.

  • VUMC has earned four consecutive Magnet designations from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the highest honor an organization can receive for nursing care.

  • Through the Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network, VUMC works with more than 60 hospitals and 5,000 clinicians across Tennessee and five neighboring states to share best practices and bring value-driven and cost-effective health care to the Mid-South.

Employee benefits

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Disability insurance

Short and long-term disability insurance.

Healthcare benefits

VUMC shares the cost of the health plan; you pay the full cost of dental and/or vision.

flexPTO

VUMC’s flexPTO program provides eligible staff* with a flexible bank of time off that can be used for vacations, holidays and brief illnesses.

AD&D insurance

Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) is a plan that pays a benefit if you lose your life, limbs, eyes, speech or hearing due to an accident. AD&D is administered by MetLife.

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