Clinical Informatics Specialist - Clinical Nurse Practice - FT - 1st Shift
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Job Description
The Clinical Informatics Specialist will serve as a liaison between clinicians, ancillary departments, and Information Technology (IT) to align clinical and IT standards with department workflows, processes, and policies.
This position will play a key role across the clinical transformation of the organization, leading various project and programs, proactively looking for efficiencies and workflow enhancement, participating in clinical governance councils.
Acts as a change agent for hospital leaders and clinicians to promote adoption of new processes and technologies. Serves as a clinical leader for projects involving technology advancements that impacts clinical workflows with team members.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelors degree required.
- License: Current Alabama or Multistate nursing license required.
- Experience: Five years of nursing experience is preferred.
Additional Skills/Abilities: Attention to detail. Analytical and problem-solving skills necessary to apply expertise to problems and/or increase operational efficiency with systems required. Knowledge of operational healthcare hospital/clinic workflows. Able to work effectively with leaders at all levels in an organization. Advanced computer skills. Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel, to include pivot tables.
About Us
Build Your Career with Us
At Huntsville Hospital, Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children and Madison Hospital, you’ll find meaningful work, supportive teams and opportunities to grow within a locally governed, nonprofit health system committed to the communities we serve.
Our workplace culture has earned national recognition, including Newsweek’s America’s Greatest Workplaces in Health Care 2026 and Forbes’ America’s Best-in-State Employers 2025.
Huntsville Hospital is the region’s primary referral center for advanced and specialty care, home to a specialized Orthopedic & Spine Tower, a Level III Regional Neonatal ICU and North Alabama’s Level I Trauma Center.
Together, our three Madison County hospitals have 971 licensed beds and offer career opportunities across a wide range of specialties and care settings.
Employees have access to continuing education, Shared Governance, Clinical Ladder, Nurse Residency, tuition assistance, child care, wellness resources, an on-site employee pharmacy and health clinic, and more.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and a partner in the U.S. Army Partnership for Your Success (PaYS) Program.
Huntsville Hospital Benefits
We are committed to providing competitive benefits. Our benefits package for eligible employees includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, flexible spending; short term and long term disability; several retirement account options with 401K organization match; nurse residency program; tuition assistance; student loan reimbursement; On-site training and education opportunities; Employee Discounts to phone providers, local restaurants, tickets to shows, apartment application and much more!
Learn More About Huntsville Hospital Health System
- Careers: careers.hhsys.org
- Benefits: careers.hhsys.org
- Education & Professional Development: huntsvillehospital.org
- Life In Huntsville: huntsvillehospital.org
Key Responsibilities
The Clinical Informatics Specialist acts as a liaison between clinicians and IT to align clinical standards with hospital workflows and processes. They lead clinical transformation projects and serve as a change agent to promote the adoption of new technologies.
Qualifications
- Education
- Bachelor degree
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Key Skills
Healthcare Administration Career Context
Of the 50 active Healthcare Administration listings this role was benchmarked against, 14% are remote, 32% have no call, 82% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for Alabama is 88.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.3% of Alabama clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Healthcare Administration pay on WeekdayDoc is down 4.8% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
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Living in Huntsville
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $272k
- Typical market rent
- $1,330/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 20 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 93.1
- State income tax
- Up to 5%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Huntsville, AL metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.