Digital Innovation (EMR) Fellow 2026

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 Pediatrics 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 paediatric 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.

2026 Digital Innovation Fellow (EMR)

The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) Melbourne is one of the world's great children's hospitals. We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff of over 6,000 people, the Royal Children’s Hospital provides a full range of tertiary clinical services, health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people, high level research and education services.

• The Digital Innovation team has established this informatics and education role, offered for 12 months for either 1 person at 0.5FTE or 2 persons (1 at 0.2FTE, 1 at 0.3FTE)

Primary Responsibility:

• The primary purpose of this position is to work as part of the Digital Innovation team to assist medical staff and teams using the EMR to optimise their efficiency. It also delivers EMR education and educational support to new and existing medical staff at RCH.

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the medical speciality optimisation programme to enhance doctors’ efficiency and EMR utilisation.
• Contribute to governance of the Digital Innovation team’s decisions on the build and tools used by junior doctors.
• Review and maintain the EMR medical curriculum and resources and its modes of delivery, including providing expert support, 
• Collaborate with Medical Informaticians on informatics projects.
• Advise the education team on the EMR medical curriculum and delivery of education.
• Support the development of an Informatics workforce within RCH.

The position is based in Parkville at the Royal Children’s Hospital, previous experience in Epic functionality is essential.

To view the full Position Description, please click here

For further information contact Daryl Cheng (Daryl.cheng@rch.org.au) or James Liddle (james.liddle@rch.org.au).

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 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 fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and 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

Are you ready to join our team? 

 Apply online by clicking on the “Apply” button

Applications Close: 24 September 2025