Grade 3 Allied Health Digital Health Clinician

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Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.  

About the Allied Health Division 

Allied Health employs over 1,000 health professionals across 27 disciplines, broadly known as the therapies and sciences, who work as key members of the multidisciplinary team aiming to provide the best outcomes for patients via preventing, diagnosing and treating a range of healthcare conditions. 

Allied Health staff support patients at every stage of their healthcare journey across Austin Health with services provided across all three sites (acute and sub-acute), in the ambulatory setting, at home and in the community. 

The vision of Allied Health is to enrich lives through exceptional care and partnerships. This role forms collaborative partnerships with allied health professionals, Austin Health colleagues, and external partners, to build an understanding of the value and role of allied health in the broader healthcare network. This approach helps our partners to contribute to our vision. 

Allied Health has a strong focus on improvement for patients and staff with the evolution of care models and staff wellbeing at its core. We foster strong collaboration with senior leadership and stakeholders across the organisation. We value and celebrate diversity in our teams as we make this workplace safe and inclusive for all staff and consumers. 

Allied Health has three key priorities: building the capability of our staff, ensuring collaborations and key partnerships are developed and sustained and implementing contemporary models of care. 

About the role  

The primary purpose of this position is to provide Digital Health consultancy, education and solution design services for the Allied Health Division at Austin Health. 

The Allied Health Digital Health Partner supports digital health initiatives across Austin Health Allied Health Therapy and Science professions. The AH Digital Health Partner will work closely and collaboratively with the Chief Allied Health Informatics Officer, Allied Health Informatics leads and Austin EMR (Cerner)/Digital Heath teams with priorities set by the Allied Health Directorate, including Workforce Unit, Quality and Innovation, Research, and Clinical Education Teams. 

The Allied Health Digital Health Partner will work with the Chief Allied Health Informatics officer to deliver effective and scalable consultancy, education and digital solution design services. They 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. 

The position 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 Health Partner will have strong informatics skills and help develop digital capability and continuous improvement practice across the Allied Health workforce. 

About you  

To be successful in this role you’ll bring with you: 

• A commitment to Austin Health values: Our actions show we care; we bring our best; together we achieve; and we shape the future.  

• 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. 

• Excellent communication skills and proven capacity to successfully work as part of a multidisciplinary team.  

• Ability to understand and navigate the conflicting needs of different groups  

• Highly   developed skills in prioritization, problem solving, organization, decision making, time management, and planning  

• Commitment to ongoing education/postgraduate education.   

• Desirable but not essential: 

• Completed or currently undertaking relevant postgraduate qualification in health leadership, digital health, informatics or related field. 

• Experience leading quality improvement activities, service development or project management, 

• Experience in a coaching or mentoring role. 

Our benefits  

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:  

• Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.  

• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.  

• Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.  

• Mentoring and career development opportunities.  

Work with us!  

We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.  

If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.  

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. Austin Health is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with Child Safe Standards. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager:  Tessa O'Dea, Manager Physiotherapy at Tessa.O'DEA@austin.org.au 

Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.  

Application closing date: Sunday 16 August 2026