Sr Clinical Content Spec Epic

Kids Are Our Everything.

 

Department

10014 Clinical Informatics

 

Pay Range

$110,052.80 - $183,414.40

 

The Senior Clinical Content Specialist creates, governs, and optimizes Epic clinical content to improve care quality, safety, efficiency, and the patient and family experience. This role will work closely with LIS. Beaker certification is required.

 

The Senior Clinical Content Specialist plays a key role in the creation and governance of workflows and evidence-based tools within the Epic electronic health record that enhance patient care quality, safety, and efficiency. In this role, you will collaborate with clinical, operational, and technical stakeholders to drive the development and continuous improvement of clinical content aligned with organizational policies, regulatory standards, and best practices. You will ensure that clinical content – such as order sets and care pathways, documentation templates, population health tools, patient screeners and education materials, alerts and other clinical decision support tools – are both meaningful and impactful. In close partnership with clinical informatics and Epic analyst teams, you will help design and optimize the EHR to support clinicians at the point of care and improve the overall patient and family experience.

Join us in making a lasting impact and help our patients Grow Up Stronger.

 

Minimum Education
Bachelor's Degree Degree in clinical or technology relevant area (e.g. public health, research, health care administration, bioinformatics, engineering, or related field). (Required)
Master's Degree Degree in clinical or technology relevant area (e.g. public health, research, health care administration, bioinformatics, engineering, or related field). (Preferred)

Minimum Work Experience
7 years At least 7 years of related work experience, such as project management, information technology, quality assurance, process improvement, education, or communications. (Required)
3 years At least 3 years of health care delivery, health care operations, public health, or health information technology work experience. Experience with Epic EHR advantageous. (Required)

Required Skills/Knowledge
Management: Contributes to developing high-performing teams, fostering a supportive and inclusive culture, promoting trust and transparency, and adhering to health care regulations and organizational policies and procedures.
Communication: Excellent presentation and communication skills, adept at conveying complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences and translating clinical and operational requirements to technical audiences.
Interpersonal: Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams and build strong relationships with clinical, operational, administrative, and technical stakeholders and leaders across clinical departments and business units.
Project Management: Strong project management skills, capable of handling multiple initiatives simultaneously, including overseeing successful and fast-paced implementations of enterprise software including the electronic health record (EHR).
Technical: Strong expertise in health information technology, including electronic health records and related systems. Familiarity with cross-venue clinical workflows and health care operations, including revenue cycle, analytics, and other business processes. Knowledge of quality improvement and process improvement methodologies and health information and health care regulations and laws. Proficiency in user-centered design principles, human factors engineering, usability testing, and software development life cycle.
Committed: Unwavering dedication to the vision for for enterprise Information Services in service of our mission and core values.
Collaborative: Strong team player with a collaborative approach to problem-solving and leadership.
Innovative: Ability to think creatively and develop forward-thinking training solutions and models.
Adaptable: Flexible and able to navigate complex and rapidly changing priorities and environments.
Empathetic: Understanding of challenges faced by healthcare professionals and staff and commitment to supporting their success.

Required Licenses and Certifications
This position requires that the appropriate Epic certification be successfully obtained and maintained for the assigned area of responsibility within 6 weeks of completing training, if not obtained prior to hire. 180 Days (Required)

Functional Accountabilities
Clinical Content Management

• Leads the development and maintenance of clinical content in the EHR in complex domains and across multiple service lines, such as order sets and care pathways, documentation templates, population health tools, patient screeners and education materials, alerts and other clinical decision support tools. Independently manages build and testing.

• Drives strategic alignment of content with evidence-based clinical pathways, operational goals, and organizational strategy.

• Ensures enterprise alignment in clinical content builds, participating in quality/safey, informatics, and governance forums.

• Evaluates content performance and usage data to guide optimization efforts.

• Supports and trains other clinical content specialists in Epic capabilities, workflow design, and informatics best practices.

System Build and Maintenance

• Oversees full lifecycle of Epic implementation, upgrades, and special projects, ensuring readiness, communication, and impact mitigation.

• Maintains detailed documentation and enforces content lifecycle practices, including archiving, audit, and downtime readiness.

• Champions standardization, usability, and clinician experience in clinical system design.

Customer Service Excellence

• Anticipates user needs through structured feedback collection, workflow analysis, and proactive rounding.

• Provides expert-level support for escalated issues, coordinating with IS and Epic and third-party vendors as needed.

• Leads change management efforts, ensuring adoption and effectiveness through strategic communication and engagement.

Organizational Support

• Serves as a liaison to clinical, quality/safety, and IS leadership, leading working groups and governance for system decisions.

• Plays a key role in innovation pilots and enterprise informatics strategy.

 

The disclosed salary range includes the minimum and maximum rates within which Children’s National believes an individual’s base pay rate will fall for this position. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the maximum of the pay range. The exact pay rate for this position will be based on a variety of factors in alignment with the Children’s National compensation philosophy. These factors are legitimate and non-discriminatory including, but not limited to, the current market conditions; organizational needs; the individual’s combination of prior work experience, level of education, knowledge, skills, and other qualifications. Children’s National is committed to providing a fair and competitive total rewards package to each of our employees. This base salary range does not include our comprehensive benefits package or any additional compensation for which this position may be eligible.

 

Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The “Know Your Rights” poster is available here: and the pay transparency policy is available here: Know Your RightsPay Transparency Nondiscrimination Poster.

 

Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a “drug-free” work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children's National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.