Interior Health is hiring a permanent full-time
Privacy Analyst who is passionate about making a difference in healthcare.
Location: This position is flexible within British Columbia.
What We Offer
- An attractive remuneration package
- Excellent career prospects
- Employer paid training/education
- Employer paid vacation
- Medical Service Plan
- Employer paid insurance premiums
- Extended Health & Dental coverage
- Work-life balance
- May be eligible to contribute to MPP
Salary range for the position is $67,861 to $97,550. Interior Health establishes salaries within the minimum and maximum of the salary range based on consideration of the qualifications, experience of the applicant, and an internal equity review of the salaries of other employees.
How Will You Create An Impact
The Privacy Analyst performs privacy and policy duties such as auditing of various Interior Health (IH) and Provincial electronic systems, oversees the ongoing development of comprehensive audit tools for monitoring compliance with IH’s central registry of legislation and regulations affecting its operations and activities, and provides day-to-day privacy advice and support to IH staff on suspected privacy breaches, ad-hoc questions, and the regional policy development system. This role operates within a complex, dynamic environment with multiple sites spread throughout a large geographical area.
In alignment with IH’s Occupational Health & Safety Program, employees shall adhere to all Occupational Health and Safety policies and procedures at all times and attend all required training. Employees are responsible to report any identified hazards, unsafe conditions or incidents to your manager or supervisor immediately.
What Will You Work On
- Conducts regular audits, provides interpretation of results, and investigates potential and actual breaches by IH users of Provincial systems, the IH electronic medical record, as well as other applications and vendor accesses to the IH information systems by:
- researching and analyzing audit data for anomalies, trends, and issues.
- investigating breaches with appropriate managers, IH departments, and the Provincial eHealth Privacy office.
- reporting confirmed breaches as per established processes.
- identifies patterns related to access and utilization of electronic health information.
- developing, maintaining, and distributing reports on audits and investigations as required.
- Develops, assesses, implements, manages, and makes recommendations on privacy and audit policies, procedures, and processes. This involves the preparation of reports, updates, and briefings for presentations. Reviews and provides input into other related policies and processes to ensure consistency with established policies, goals, and objectives for Information Privacy at IH. Researches and analyzes innovative approaches for information capture, storage, retrieval, and compliance.
- Maintains the audit software system by supporting, developing, and maintaining the business processes necessary to facilitate effective privacy controls and compliance to BC’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA).
- Identifies best practices and supports improvements to privacy and audit business processes, workflows, standard operating procedures, etc. using a customer-service approach.
- Supports review of privacy impact assessments, breaches and information sharing agreements as requested by the Manager, Information Privacy.
- Acts as a project manager on smaller, assigned privacy and audit-related projects by developing project plans and charters; identifying major milestones, associated tasks, and timelines; managing deliverables; and evaluating outcomes.
- Participates on assigned internal and external committees as required. Acts as a liaison with all staff/physicians across IH as well as external partners to enforce and promote privacy and audit best practices. Supports the development and delivers privacy audit education and related communication to increase awareness of privacy of personal information.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
- In alignment with IH’s Occupational Health & Safety Program, employees shall adhere to all Occupational Health and Safety policies and procedures at all times and attend all required training. Employees are responsible to report any identified hazards, unsafe conditions or incidents to the manager or supervisor immediately.
Interior Health strives to create an environment where you enjoy the work you do, the place where you work, and the people around you. Together, we create great workplaces.
Apply today!
Honouring Interior Health’s commitment to Truth and Reconciliation and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), and Pursuant to Section 42 of the BC Human Rights Code, preferential consideration and/or hiring will be given to qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit).