Epic Principal Trainer Jobs
Epic Principal Trainer jobs are open across healthcare systems, hospital networks, and large enterprise organizations, from mid-level implementation roles to senior lead and program director positions, with specializations in clinical workflow training, curriculum development, and application build support. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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10575 IT TrainingPay Range
$110,052.80 - $183,414.40The Lead Technology Trainer partners with clinical, operational, revenue cycle, and information services (IS) stakeholders
to help design and deliver an enterprise technology training program. This pivotal role, reporting to the Manager of
Technology Training and Adoption, will have the opportunity to lead an Epic-certified training team who will ensure all
Children's National staff are well-prepared and proficient in using our new Epic electronic health record and related
applications. You will help develop a continuous learning model to advance user adoption and system mastery. Your expertise
in health care workflows, information technology, and instructional design will empower our staff to leverage technology with
competence and confidence, improving patient safety, care delivery, business processes, and the overall experience for
patients, families, and colleagues every day.
Join us in making a lasting impact and help our patients Grow Up Stronger
Minimum Education
Bachelor's Degree Bachelor’s degree in health care, education, information
technology, health care administration, or a related field.
(Required)
Master's Degree Master’s or other advanced degree in health care, education,
information technology, health care administration, or a related
field is advantageous. (Preferred)
Minimum Work Experience
7 years Minimum of seven years of clinical, operational, revenue cycle, technical, and/or
training experience with health information technology, including electronic health records and other clinical or practice management applications. Experience with
the Epic EHR is advantageous. (Required)
5 years Five years of experience in staff onboarding, adult education, curriculum
development, instructional design, and/or training delivery, preferably in a health
care setting. (Preferred)
Required Skills/Knowledge
Leadership: Emerging ability to lead and inspire disparate stakeholders and align end users to achieve organizational goals.
Management: Skilled in supporting high-performing teams, fostering a supportive and inclusive culture, promoting trust
and transparency, and adhering to health care regulations and organizational policies and procedures.
Communication: Excellent presentation and communication skills, adept at conveying complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences through various channels, including static and dynamic pre-recorded and live content delivery, prioritizing user experience.
Interpersonal: Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams and build strong relationships with clinical,
operational, administrative, and technical stakeholders and leaders across clinical departments and business units
Project Management: Strong project management skills, capable of handling multiple initiatives simultaneously, including
overseeing successful and fast-paced implementations of enterprise software including the electronic health record (EHR).
Education: Knowledgeable in instructional design methodologies and adult learning principles. Proficient in using e-learning authoring tools, learning management systems (LMS), and virtual training platforms. Demonstrated experience enabling end user competency, confidence, continuous learning, and system mastery.
Technical: Strong expertise in health information technology, including electronic health records and related systems.
Familiarity with cross-venue clinical workflows and health care operations, including revenue cycle, analytics, and other
business processes.
Committed: Unwavering dedication to the vision for enterprise technology training in service of our mission and core
values.
Collaborative: Strong team player with a collaborative approach to problem-solving and leadership.
Innovative: Ability to think creatively and develop forward-thinking training solutions and models
Adaptable: Flexible and able to navigate complex and rapidly changing priorities and environments.
Empathetic: Understanding of challenges faced by healthcare professionals and staff and commitment to supporting their success.
Required Licenses and Certifications
This position requires
that the appropriate
Epic certification be
successfully obtained
and maintained for the
assigned area of
responsibility within 6
weeks of completing
training, if not
obtained prior to hire. 180 Days (Required)
Functional Accountabilities
Leadership & Strategy
- Advise IS and hospital leadership on the development of a comprehensive EHR training and adoption strategy.
- Align training initiatives with organizational goals and digital transformation priorities.
- Provide day-to-day supervision and mentorship to junior training team members, fostering professional growth.
- Lead the recruitment, onboarding, and development of credentialed trainers and super users for go-live support.
- Design and implement enterprise-wide training programs tailored to diverse user groups, including clinical, operational, and administrative staff.
- Ensure training content reflects organizational values, technical environment, and role-based workflows.
- Promote standard work, high reliability practices, and integration with clinical and operational workflows.
- Oversee the availability, integrity, and maintenance of training environments and test patient data.
- Ensure environments support realistic, case-based learning experiences and content development.
- Lead the planning and execution of training activities for new system go-lives and upgrades.
- Coordinate with IS and project management teams to ensure readiness, communication, and support coverage.
- Integrate system updates into training programs and materials
- Collaborate with informatics and operational leaders to support change adoption and address resistance.
- Define and track metrics to evaluate training effectiveness and user adoption.
- Monitor performance trends and provide ongoing support to ensure sustained proficiency.
- Partner with IS, department leaders, and vendors to ensure training programs meet evolving user needs.
- Facilitate cross-departmental collaboration and alignment.
- Maintain comprehensive, accessible documentation of training materials, methodologies, and user resources.
- Support multi-channel communication strategies for training and adoption.
The disclosed salary range includes the minimum and maximum rates within which Children’s National believes an individual’s base pay rate will fall for this position. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the maximum of the pay range. The exact pay rate for this position will be based on a variety of factors in alignment with the Children’s National compensation philosophy. These factors are legitimate and non-discriminatory including, but not limited to, the current market conditions; organizational needs; the individual’s combination of prior work experience, level of education, knowledge, skills, and other qualifications. Children’s National is committed to providing a fair and competitive total rewards package to each of our employees. This base salary range does not include our comprehensive benefits package or any additional compensation for which this position may be eligible.
Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The “Know Your Rights” poster is available here: and the pay transparency policy is available here: Know Your RightsPay Transparency Nondiscrimination Poster.
Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a “drug-free” work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children's National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.
Kids Are Our Everything.
Department
10575 IT TrainingPay Range
$110,052.80 - $183,414.40The Lead Technology Trainer partners with clinical, operational, revenue cycle, and information services (IS) stakeholders
to help design and deliver an enterprise technology training program. This pivotal role, reporting to the Manager of
Technology Training and Adoption, will have the opportunity to lead an Epic-certified training team who will ensure all
Children's National staff are well-prepared and proficient in using our new Epic electronic health record and related
applications. You will help develop a continuous learning model to advance user adoption and system mastery. Your expertise
in health care workflows, information technology, and instructional design will empower our staff to leverage technology with
competence and confidence, improving patient safety, care delivery, business processes, and the overall experience for
patients, families, and colleagues every day.
Join us in making a lasting impact and help our patients Grow Up Stronger
Minimum Education
Bachelor's Degree Bachelor’s degree in health care, education, information
technology, health care administration, or a related field.
(Required)
Master's Degree Master’s or other advanced degree in health care, education,
information technology, health care administration, or a related
field is advantageous. (Preferred)
Minimum Work Experience
7 years Minimum of seven years of clinical, operational, revenue cycle, technical, and/or
training experience with health information technology, including electronic health records and other clinical or practice management applications. Experience with
the Epic EHR is advantageous. (Required)
5 years Five years of experience in staff onboarding, adult education, curriculum
development, instructional design, and/or training delivery, preferably in a health
care setting. (Preferred)
Required Skills/Knowledge
Leadership: Emerging ability to lead and inspire disparate stakeholders and align end users to achieve organizational goals.
Management: Skilled in supporting high-performing teams, fostering a supportive and inclusive culture, promoting trust
and transparency, and adhering to health care regulations and organizational policies and procedures.
Communication: Excellent presentation and communication skills, adept at conveying complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences through various channels, including static and dynamic pre-recorded and live content delivery, prioritizing user experience.
Interpersonal: Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams and build strong relationships with clinical,
operational, administrative, and technical stakeholders and leaders across clinical departments and business units
Project Management: Strong project management skills, capable of handling multiple initiatives simultaneously, including
overseeing successful and fast-paced implementations of enterprise software including the electronic health record (EHR).
Education: Knowledgeable in instructional design methodologies and adult learning principles. Proficient in using e-learning authoring tools, learning management systems (LMS), and virtual training platforms. Demonstrated experience enabling end user competency, confidence, continuous learning, and system mastery.
Technical: Strong expertise in health information technology, including electronic health records and related systems.
Familiarity with cross-venue clinical workflows and health care operations, including revenue cycle, analytics, and other
business processes.
Committed: Unwavering dedication to the vision for enterprise technology training in service of our mission and core
values.
Collaborative: Strong team player with a collaborative approach to problem-solving and leadership.
Innovative: Ability to think creatively and develop forward-thinking training solutions and models
Adaptable: Flexible and able to navigate complex and rapidly changing priorities and environments.
Empathetic: Understanding of challenges faced by healthcare professionals and staff and commitment to supporting their success.
Required Licenses and Certifications
This position requires
that the appropriate
Epic certification be
successfully obtained
and maintained for the
assigned area of
responsibility within 6
weeks of completing
training, if not
obtained prior to hire. 180 Days (Required)
Functional Accountabilities
Leadership & Strategy
- Advise IS and hospital leadership on the development of a comprehensive EHR training and adoption strategy.
- Align training initiatives with organizational goals and digital transformation priorities.
- Provide day-to-day supervision and mentorship to junior training team members, fostering professional growth.
- Lead the recruitment, onboarding, and development of credentialed trainers and super users for go-live support.
- Design and implement enterprise-wide training programs tailored to diverse user groups, including clinical, operational, and administrative staff.
- Ensure training content reflects organizational values, technical environment, and role-based workflows.
- Promote standard work, high reliability practices, and integration with clinical and operational workflows.
- Oversee the availability, integrity, and maintenance of training environments and test patient data.
- Ensure environments support realistic, case-based learning experiences and content development.
- Lead the planning and execution of training activities for new system go-lives and upgrades.
- Coordinate with IS and project management teams to ensure readiness, communication, and support coverage.
- Integrate system updates into training programs and materials
- Collaborate with informatics and operational leaders to support change adoption and address resistance.
- Define and track metrics to evaluate training effectiveness and user adoption.
- Monitor performance trends and provide ongoing support to ensure sustained proficiency.
- Partner with IS, department leaders, and vendors to ensure training programs meet evolving user needs.
- Facilitate cross-departmental collaboration and alignment.
- Maintain comprehensive, accessible documentation of training materials, methodologies, and user resources.
- Support multi-channel communication strategies for training and adoption.
The disclosed salary range includes the minimum and maximum rates within which Children’s National believes an individual’s base pay rate will fall for this position. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the maximum of the pay range. The exact pay rate for this position will be based on a variety of factors in alignment with the Children’s National compensation philosophy. These factors are legitimate and non-discriminatory including, but not limited to, the current market conditions; organizational needs; the individual’s combination of prior work experience, level of education, knowledge, skills, and other qualifications. Children’s National is committed to providing a fair and competitive total rewards package to each of our employees. This base salary range does not include our comprehensive benefits package or any additional compensation for which this position may be eligible.
Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The “Know Your Rights” poster is available here: and the pay transparency policy is available here: Know Your RightsPay Transparency Nondiscrimination Poster.
Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a “drug-free” work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children's National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Healthcare & Medical Services
- Education
- Technology & Software
- Government & Public Sector
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in epic principal trainer jobs.
- Epic certification in one or more applications such as Cadence, Beaker, Willow, or OpTime
- Minimum two to three years of experience training end users on Epic workflows in a healthcare setting
- Ability to build and maintain training environments, tip sheets, and eLearning course content
- Strong facilitation skills with experience delivering instruction to both clinical and non-clinical staff
- Bachelor's degree in education, healthcare administration, information systems, or a related field
- Experience supporting Epic go-live activations including at-elbow support and command center operations
Tips for Your Epic Principal Trainer Job Search
Tailor your resume to Epic module expertise
List every Epic application you've trained on by name, such as Cadence, Beaker, or Willow. Hiring teams filter resumes for specific module experience, so a generic 'Epic EMR' mention will get you screened out before anyone reads further.
Highlight your Epic certification status prominently
Put your Epic certifications in a dedicated section near the top of your resume, not buried in a list at the bottom. Include the application name, certification type, and the year earned so recruiters can verify your credentials at a glance.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists epic principal trainer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by go-live phase
Job descriptions often signal where a health system is in its Epic implementation, whether pre-go-live build, activation support, or post-live optimization. Matching your application to that phase and calling it out in your cover letter shows you understand the role's real demands.
Demonstrate adult learning design in interviews
Interviewers for principal trainer roles routinely ask you to walk through how you'd design training for a specific workflow. Prepare a concrete example using a past module rollout, explaining your audience analysis, delivery format choices, and how you measured retention or proficiency.
Negotiate build time and travel expectations upfront
Principal trainer offers vary widely on how much of your time is classroom delivery versus curriculum build versus on-site go-live support. Clarify the split before accepting, because a role heavy on travel during activations is a meaningfully different job than a remote curriculum-development position.
Epic Principal Trainer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most epic principal trainers?
The most active employers for epic principal trainers right now are AltaMed Health Services, Carle Health, and University of Miami, and the most openings are in California, Texas, and Florida, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Health systems mid-implementation and Epic consulting firms tend to post the highest volume of roles.
How many epic principal trainer jobs are remote?
About 67% of epic principal trainer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though the share varies significantly by role type. Curriculum development and eLearning build positions are the most likely to be fully remote, while go-live activation and at-elbow support roles almost always require on-site presence at the client health system.
How do you become a epic principal trainer?
Start by gaining hands-on experience with Epic as a super user or application analyst inside a health system, then pursue Epic certification in the application or module you know best. From there, build a portfolio of training materials you've created, such as tip sheets, eLearning modules, or recorded workflow walkthroughs, and seek out roles that involve formal curriculum design or classroom instruction alongside your technical duties.
Can you get hired as an epic principal trainer with little experience?
Entry points do exist, particularly at Epic consulting firms that hire candidates with strong instructional design backgrounds and train them on the application internally. If you're coming from a clinical background with heavy Epic super user experience but no formal training title, emphasize any workflow documentation, peer coaching, or go-live support you've led, since those map directly to what principal trainer roles require day to day.
What does the epic principal trainer interview process look like?
Most hiring processes include an initial phone screen focused on your Epic certification and module experience, followed by a skills-based interview where you may be asked to present a sample training plan or walk through how you'd approach onboarding a specific end-user group. Final rounds often involve a panel with the training manager, an IT director, and sometimes a clinical champion, all of whom will probe your ability to translate complex workflows into clear, accessible instruction.
Where can I find and apply to epic principal trainer jobs?
You can find and apply to epic principal trainer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your module expertise and experience level, then apply directly to each listing that fits your background.
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