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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 ****.

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.

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.

Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO)

Work for Australia's leading paediatric hospital

Ongoing, Part-Time position

Strategic medical leadership role at the forefront of shaping medical informatics and digital medical practice at a digitally forward and innovative organisation

Excellent employee benefits including salary packaging

Flexible work options available, including ability to combine with clinical roles and duties

About the Role:

This is an ongoing part-time position at 0.6 FTE within the Digital Innovation and EMR Team.

The role is able to commence immediately.

The Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) provides strategic medical leadership for the safe, effective, equitable and creative use of digital technology, clinical informatics, data, analytics and AI across RCH.The role ensures the EMR and associated digital technologies support current and future medical and clinical workflows, drive measurable improvements in the safety, quality, efficiency and experience of patient and family-centred care, and enable data-driven clinical improvement and research.

The role also provides expert clinical input to the architectural design, implementation, evaluation and analysis of health information systems, data platforms and emerging technologies, working with multidisciplinary teams including data scientists, software engineers, analysts and researchers across RCH and the Melbourne Children's Campus.The roledevelops and leads the medical digital health strategy, fosters medical engagement and digital capability across the workforce, and provides clinical governance leadership for the responsible adoption of AI, predictive analytics and other emerging technologies.

The CMIO is the executive medical leader responsible for medical informatics and digital medical practice across RCH.

The role works in close partnership with the Chief Medical Officer, Executive Director Digital Health, the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) as well as campus partners (Murdoch Children's Research Institute and The University of Melbourne) and the Parkville precinct EMR program, contributing medical informatics leadership across the organisation and precinct.

Classification for this position will be according to the Medical Specialists (Victorian Public Health Sector) Enterprise Agreement *********, Specialists Year 1-9.

What you'll achieve:

Strategy and Leadership

Develop and lead the medical digital health and informatics strategy across RCH, ensuring alignment of medical and hospital strategy with clinical systems, data, analytics, AI and broader technological advancement.

Lead planning, development and implementation of strategic and tactical clinical information systems and associated technologies to support current and future medical and clinical workflows.

Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders including RCH and Parkville Executive, fellow CxIOs (CCIO, CNMIO, CMIOs of precinct partners), MCRI, The University of Melbourne and external digital health bodies.

Provide professional leadership, mentorship and supervision to the Consultants – Informatics and Education, the Consultant – Digital Health, and medical trainees in informatics roles, building a pipeline of medical informatics capability.

Undertake horizon scanning for best practice in clinical informatics, digital health, data science and AI, and translate emerging evidence into local strategy.