EPIC PROJECT MANAGER FULL TIME

Job Description

Job Description

Join Our Team at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center !**

We are dedicated to providing high-quality, compassionate care to our diverse community. As a leading healthcare provider, we offer a supportive and inclusive work environment. If you’re passionate about making a difference and thrive in a collaborative setting, Bergen New Bridge Medical Center is looking for an Epic Project Manager.

Job Summary:

Epic Project Managers

The project manager provides an additional level of coordination and communication, overseeing Epic implementation for an application, application area, or specialized team such as training or research.

Management responsibilities

• Maintaining the scope, schedule, and quality of the project in their specific application area or team
• Setting clear expectations for team members, including defining what they should do at each phase of the project
• Working closely with the project director and other project managers to coordinate activities
• Ensuring that the business community is engaged in the project
• Advising and coaching team members by providing guidance on project issues, key success factors of the project, and lessons learned
• Sharing with team members the positive effects of innovation and system capabilities
• Reinforcing the importance of the project together with the executives and the project director, and providing consistent communication to the project team
• Organizing resources within the organization
• Motivating and showing appreciation for the team
• Appropriately matching team member skills to team responsibilities
• Managing the project from an organizational perspective while attending to detailed tasks

Core responsibilities

• Assisting as a support contact for their area
• Identifying and troubleshooting issues
• Guiding workflow design, building and testing the system, and analyzing other technical issues associated with Epic software
• Serving as a liaison between organizational needs and Epic implementation staff
• Maintaining regular communication with Epic representatives, including participating in weekly project team meetings
• Working with Epic representatives, your organization's business community, and end users to ensure the system meets the organization's business needs in regard to the project deliverables and timeline
• Developing an understanding of operational needs to set the direction for the organization's workflows
• Participating in training and working with end users
• Reviewing the status of projects and issues on an ongoing basis with leadership
• Holding weekly communications with team members to discuss the status of deliverables, shared issues, end-user concerns, budget, and upcoming milestones

Key competencies

• Adaptability/flexibility

• Demonstrating flexibility with respect to changing end-user business needs

• Critical thinking

• The ability and willingness to see things in an open-minded way and examine an idea or concept from as many angles as possible
• Dependability

• The ability and willingness to take ownership of work activities and ensure that they are completed in an accurate, efficient, and timely manner
• Initiative

• The ability and willingness to recognize assignments or tasks that need to be completed, to seek out additional assignments or tasks, and to help others
• Interpersonal skills

• The ability to communicate information clearly and concisely with project leadership and subject matter experts
• Learning

• The ability and willingness to learn new software and systems
• Listening attentively to ensure that the intended message has been accurately received, holding responses until the person has finished making his/her point, and repeating information to ensure accuracy
• Problem solving

• Seeking, logically examining, and interpreting information from different sources to determine a problem's cause and developing a course of action to resolve the problem and to prevent its recurrence
• Relationship building

• The ability to gain trust and establish effective relationships with Epic counterparts
• Resilience

• The ability to persevere in difficult situations, overcome obstacles, and reach high levels of performance when faced with stressful work situations and time pressures

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree, any field.
• Healthcare experience required.
• Epic experience required.
• Project Management certification preferred, project management experience required.
• Complete assigned EPIC Certification(s) and/or training within 90 days of employment.

Salary commensurate with experience within posted range

Salary: $120,000 to $130,000

We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including a competitive medical, dental, and vision plans. We prioritize work-life balance with a generous time off policy that includes ample vacation days, personal time, sick leave and nine paid holidays. Additionally, we are committed to the personal and professional growth of our employees, offering robust tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs to help support our employees ongoing development.

Company Description

Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, a clinical affiliate of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, is a 1,070 bed hospital located at 230 East Ridgewood Avenue in Paramus, NJ. Founded in 1916 to treat patients with contagious diseases, the medical center has grown to become both the largest hospital and licensed nursing home in New Jersey and the fourth-largest publicly-owned hospital in the nation.

A safety net facility, Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, renamed in October 2017, provides high-quality comprehensive services including long term care, behavioral health care, substance abuse treatment, and acute care to the greater Bergen County community. The medical center, including its Long Term Care Division, is fully accredited by The Joint Commission. With 323 behavioral health beds and 84 medical detox beds, Bergen New Bridge Medical Center is one of the largest medical facilities providing a continuum of care for those in need of behavioral health and/or substance abuse treatment.

Please apply on our website:

Company Description

Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, a clinical affiliate of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, is a 1,070 bed hospital located at 230 East Ridgewood Avenue in Paramus, NJ. Founded in 1916 to treat patients with contagious diseases, the medical center has grown to become both the largest hospital and licensed nursing home in New Jersey and the fourth-largest publicly-owned hospital in the nation. \r\n\r\nA safety net facility, Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, renamed in October 2017, provides high-quality comprehensive services including long term care, behavioral health care, substance abuse treatment, and acute care to the greater Bergen County community. The medical center, including its Long Term Care Division, is fully accredited by The Joint Commission. With 323 behavioral health beds and 84 medical detox beds, Bergen New Bridge Medical Center is one of the largest medical facilities providing a continuum of care for those in need of behavioral health and/or substance abuse treatment.\r\n\r\nPlease apply on our website: