About this role
Job Description
Required Skills
- Minimum 5 years direct operational level privacy experience preferably in a health sector and/or IT environment
- Minimum of 5 years? health privacy experience conducting privacy impact assessments on medium to high complexity projects
- Minimum 5 years? experience developing privacy policies and procedures, requirements or controls
- Holds an undergraduate or graduate degree in health, policy, IT, security, law or a related discipline
- Experience with the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA), including requirements for Health Information Network Providers (HINP) and Electronic Service Providers (ESP). Experience working with prescribed statuses is considered an asset.
- Familiarity with OntarioMD EMR certification
- Familiarity with EMR or HIS infrastructure, design, and data flows
- Familiarity with Application Programming Interface (API) functionality and management
Responsibilities
The Senior Privacy Specialist will lead and support various initiatives, including, but not limited to:
- Develop privacy policies and procedures
- Conduct privacy impact assessments for low to high complex initiatives
- May be required to support investigating privacy incidents, patient inquiries, and privacy requests of any kind
- Identify and assess privacy risks
- Provide privacy advisory support to business teams
- Lead and/or participate in Agency, regional or provincial committees or project teams as the privacy Subject Matter Expert
- Identify privacy requirements
- Develop strong relationships with various internal and external partners to foster a culture of privacy
- Respond and provide advice and legislative interpretation for information and access requests,