Fwd: Alberta Health Services is Hiring a Human Factors Summer Student
Danniel Varona-Marin
From: Bridjet Lee <bridj...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 at 10:35
Subject: Fwd: Alberta Health Services is Hiring a Human Factors Summer Student
To: Danniel Varona-Marin <danni...@gmail.com>
From: Jason Laberge <Jason....@albertahealthservices.ca>
Date: 11 March 2016 at 11:01
Subject: Alberta Health Services is Hiring a Human Factors Summer Student
To: Jason Laberge <Jason....@albertahealthservices.ca>
Hello,
I wanted to let you know that Alberta Health Services is hiring a human factors summer student.
Job details are below.
Please forward this information to anyone that might be interested.
Thank you,
Jason
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Jason Laberge, M.Sc.
Manager - Human Factors
Phone: (403) 944-8058
Lync: (587) 774-6829
Mobile: (587) 891-7537
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JOB DETAILS:
The Human Factors team in Alberta Health Services (AHS) has an opportunity for a summer co-operative education student to support the provincial Patient Safety department. The Human Factors team provides leadership in promoting best practices in usability and patient safety. A successful candidate will have strong analytical, interpersonal, and collaboration skills, with a passion for usability and a creative eye for excellent design.
Start Date: May 2, 2016 / End Date: August 26, 2016
Duties:
- Reports to the Human Factors Manager.
- Support the Human Factors team through the application of expertise in human factors/usability engineering.
- Apply human factors methodologies (i.e. heuristic evaluation and usability testing) to examine processes and evaluate room designs, workflows, equipment, user interfaces, and forms
- Participate in job shadowing, interviews and focus groups; use quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze data; help prepare detailed reports and presentations of human factors evaluation results.
- Contribute to the design of solutions that improve patient safety.
- Willing to travel locally and throughout the province as needed.
To be considered for employment all candidates must be:
- Registered as a full-time post-secondary student in an accredited institution
- Currently recognized as having full-time status by the academic institution
- Returning for courses in the next academic term
- Legally entitled to work in Canada
To apply for this position: https://albertahealthservices.ats.hrsmart.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?jobid=385627
About Alberta Health Services:
AHS has over 100000 employees and is the provincial health authority responsible for planning and delivering health care and promoting wellness for 3.7 million Albertans. AHS employees work in acute care hospitals, stand-alone psychiatric facilities, community sites, and service/support centers. The AHS mission is to provide a patient-focused, quality health system that is accessible and sustainable for all Albertans.
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