Manager, Epic Training

Title: Manager, Epic Training

Location: Fountain Valley / Predominantly Remote

Department: IS Epic Clinical Applications

Status: Full Time

Shift: Day

Pay Range*: $150,633.60 - $225,929.60/annually

MemorialCare is a nonprofit integrated health system that includes four leading hospitals, award-winning medical groups - consisting of over 200 sites of care, and more than 2,000 physicians throughout Orange and Los Angeles Counties. We are committed to increasing access to patient-centric, affordable, and high-quality healthcare; your personal contributions are integral to MemorialCare's recognition as a market leader and innovator in value-based and other care models.

Across our family of medical centers, we support each one of our bright, talented employees in reaching the highest levels of professional development, contribution, collaboration, and accountability.Whatever your role and whatever expertise you bring, we are dedicated to helping you achieve your full potential in an environment of respect, innovation, and teamwork.

Position Summary

MemorialCare's Information Services (IS) Training Team is responsible for developing the knowledge and skills of our workforce. They ensure that our workforce can meet its current and future business objectives and deliver quality services that meet our customers' needs. They develop and facilitate training strategies and plan initiatives working with clinical, patient access, financial, and/or analytics groups.

The Manager, Epic Training is responsible for managing a core functional team of IS training professionals to provide ongoing training, deliver on project deadlines, issue resolution, and run-the-business operations while monitoring performance and personnel development. They establish standard work to ensure long-term sustainability, strategic alignment, adherence to governance, and cost effectiveness of proposed department standards. They learn about industry training standards and can transform the team to evolve and deliver modernized training solutions across the enterprise.

The Manager, Epic Training works closely with IS Directors and VPs to ensure training needs for various projects are scoped, tasks are clearly defined, issues are logged, escalated and resolved in a timely fashion, and projects are completed on budget and on-time. They communicate appropriately with Directors regarding shared work and dependencies across multiple groups.

As necessary, the Manager delegates duties and responsibilities among team members. They foster collaborative and productive relationships among team members and work to build team cooperation despite competing priorities and strong personalities. When necessary, they resolve disputes and develop disciplinary paths among team members.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities of the Job

• Promotes innovative training strategies and solutions that encourage ongoing learning and adoption of new system functionality.

• Articulates the importance of system changes and what are the benefits to the end users.

• Demonstrates professionalism and confidence to be able to regularly interact with senior management and executives on training strategy, planning and operational execution.

• Partners with informatics, operational leaders, campus education departments, and other cross-functional areas to determine the best training approach.

• Functions as an advocate and serves as a positive role model for encouraging others to embrace operational changes and transformation associated with IS projects.

• Reviews existing training program; suggests enhancements and modifications to improve engagement, learning, and retention and/or to meet the changing needs of the organization and industry.

• Fosters a culture of partnership with other IS teams and enables the training team to work collaboratively as an extension of the applications teams.

• Ensures that training materials and programs are current, accurate, and effective.

• Holds responsibility for implementation/maintenance of Learning Management System (LMS).

• Maintains knowledge of new methods and techniques for training, instructional design, and training requirements applicable to the organization.

• Identifies problems and opportunities such as operational changes or industry developments that training could improve.

• Encourages understanding of current state workflows to tailor the training and deliver relevant content.

• Ensures that training milestones and goals are met while adhering to approved training budget.

• Partners with Director and/or VP to prepare and implement training budget.

• Manages vendor relationships, support and deliverables working to negotiate terms to best meet MemorialCare's requirements.

• Oversees team project assignments, defines appropriate resources, monitors training and project schedules, makes adjustments that are within scope of responsibility, and recommends changes as appropriate.

• Provides comprehensive planning and associated advocacy to propose appropriate training methods for IS updates, system modifications, and workflow changes that support the business plans of the organization.

• Fosters positive relationships with business leadership and works closely with them to understand future business plans, elicit functional requirements, and identifies and implements training solutions to support business plans.

• Develops staff performance expectations, goals and metrics. Establishes career path goals for each member, performs regularly scheduled evaluations, and provides guidance in development of those goals.

• Holds responsibility for all aspects of managing and leading a team including hiring, developing staff, managing performance and rewarding employees. Establishes an inclusive and innovative culture where each individual feels valued and thrives, inspiring overall team success and trust.

*Placement in the pay range is based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, relevant years of experience and qualifications. In addition to base pay, there may be additional compensation available for this role, including but not limited to, shift differentials, extra shift incentives, and bonus opportunities. Health and wellness is our passion at MemorialCare-that includes taking good care of employees and their dependents. We offer high quality health insurance plan options, so you can select the best choice for your family. And there's more...Check out ourMemorialCare Benefitsfor more information about our Benefits and Rewards.