It Applications Manager / Imaging Applications

Overview
With more than 11,000 team members, Tower Health consists of Reading Hospital, a teaching hospital in West Reading; Phoenixville Hospital in Phoenixville; Pottstown Hospital in Pottstown; and St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, a partnership of Tower Health and Drexel University, in Philadelphia. It also includes Reading Hospital Rehabilitation at Wyomissing; Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences in West Reading; home healthcare services provided by Tower Health at Home; and a network of 27 urgent care facilities across the Tower Health service area. Tower Health offers a connected network of 2,200 physicians, specialists, and providers across more than 230 convenient locations.
Responsibilities
Are you a customer focused healthcare leader? Be empowered to steer progress and translate your passion in this pivotal leadership position. Seize this chance to make your mark leading a strong team.
The IT Application Systems Manager manages the information technology services for assigned applications across the health system. This role oversees Imaging Informatics, Cardiology, and Epic Radiant team.
The Day-to-Day
Your leadership as Applications Manager will be vital in driving the evolution of these applications. Your contributions may include:

• Evaluating, planning, coordinating, and supervising activities related to the design, development, implementation and maintenance of assigned applications.
• Participating in planning and managing project schedules and budget and ensuring that technical projects follow those plans.
• Establishing effective communication across technical and non-technical departments to identify key plan tasks and due dates.
• Providing and fostering exemplary provider-centric customer focus.
• Leading and developing a team to enhance and support assigned applications. Playing a major role in engagement, development, staffing allocation, performance appraisals, and advancement of staff.
• Initiating and achieving change by planning, brainstorming, and unflinchingly challenging the status quo.
• Delivering solutions that ensure compatibility and integration with hospital strategies and business plans while establishing standards and guidelines for improving the applications development process.
• Engaging and empowering the user community proactively through cultivating strong relationships and advanced redesign and standardization of technology.

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Qualifications

• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills. Demonstrated ability to convey information clearly, accurately, and timely in consideration of audience and medium. Proficiency with MS Office suite required.
• Track record of strong customer focus. Empathy, collaboration, and consensus building are key for this position.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability and proven success in effectively interacting and building relationships with individuals at all levels (direct reports, peer level, C-suite, providers, department leaders, vendors, etc.).
• Bachelor's Degree. Combination of relevant education and experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Strong organizational and critical thinking skills with demonstrated attention to detail.
• An understanding of systems development life cycle required. Proven ability to understand, analyze, design, and problem solve process/workflow and develop creative solutions.
• The ideal candidate will have relevant clinical healthcare IT leadership experience with Epic Radiant, PACS/Imaging Informatics, or Cardiology applications. Strong technical experience in one of these areas with team lead experience or aspiration will also be considered.
• Demonstrated ability to listen to and understand the needs of different groups, make persuasive presentations, inspire employees, effectively negotiate with a wide variety of stakeholders, sell ideas, influence others, and lead change in a collegial manner.