Digital Health Lead

The Hospital:

The Royal Children’s Hospital’s (RCH) Vision is “A world where all kids thrive”.

RCH is a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children’s Campus, partnering with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.

RCH has cared for the children and young people of Victoria for more than 150 years since it was founded in 1870. A full range of paediatrics and adolescent health services are provided plus tertiary and quaternary care for the most critically ill and medically complex patients in Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and other states around Australia and overseas. The Hospital has more than 6,000 staff, a budget of $850M, 12 wards and 350 beds. Annually, the RCH has 300,000+ Specialist Clinic appointments, 90,000+ Emergency Department presentations and 20,000 elective surgeries.

The RCH is committed to the Child Safe Standards. 

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact.

For further Information on RCH is available here.

Job Title: Allied Health Digital Health Lead

• Work for Australia’s leading Children’s Hospital   
• Pro-active and supportive leadership 
• Parental Leave cover until 29/08/2027

About the Role

This is a Fixed Term Full Time position to cover Parental Leave until 29.08.2027, at 1.0 FTE/80 hours per fortnight within the Allied Health Directorate. 

You will be responsible for providing Digital Health consultancy, education and solution design services for the Allied Health area at RCH. You will work as part of the Digital Innovation team to deliver effective and scalable consultancy, education and digital solution design services. You will work closely with the Allied Health senior leadership team to support service delivery, data analysis reporting, overall engagement of Allied Health clinicians in EMR workflows and other Digital Health programs focusing on delivering safe, timely, quality patient care.   

In this role you will provide a comprehensive program of digital health capabilities including but not limited to, optimisation of processes for efficiency, evaluation of new initiatives, introduction of new technologies, education, EMR reporting and analysis of other data sets to evaluate services. The Allied Health Digital Lead will have strong informatics skills and help develop digital capability and continuous improvement practice across the Allied Health workforce. 

Classification for this postion will be Grade 4 Year 1 – Grade 4 Year 4 ($126,079.20 - $140,665.20 per annum pro rata) as per the relevant Allied Health Enterprise Agreement. 

What you'll achieve:

Your skills and experience: 

• An accredited qualification in one of the Allied Health Therapy or Science professions at RCH.  
• Eligibility for professional registration with AHPRA (where required) or appropriate professional body (where applicable).  
• Demonstrated understanding of contemporary issues and directions of Allied Health in tertiary health services. 
• Excellent working knowledge, experience and competency with information management systems and electronic medical records. 
• Extensive experience in hospital Allied Health practice, with an interest in digital workflows, best practice, innovation, clinical documentation, and healthcare informatics. 
• Post Graduate qualification in Health Leadership, Digital Health, Informatics or a related field (or working towards) e.g. CHIA 
• Significant previous experience with Epic - either as a Digital Champion, EMR Super User or Clinician Builder with formal Epic certification. 
• Experience in leading quality improvement activities, service development and project management.  

If this sounds like you, click here to view the position description. 

What we offer:

• Salary Packaging - Increase your take home pay!
• Parkville location and close to public transport
• Ability to join Fitness Passport - your pass to an extensive choice of fitness facilities

Other requirements:

Why work at the RCH?

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer staff benefits such as discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

The RCH is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse background, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with disability.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital.  Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption, and offers of employment are conditional on successful completion of background checks including reference checks. 

Are you ready to join our team?

Apply online by clicking on the “Apply” button

Applications close 10 August 2026