Clinical Nurse Consultant – Digital Health (Clinical Informatics) | UnitingCare Hospitals

Employment Term:

Permanent Full Time Opportunity

Permanent Part Time Opportunity (2 days/ wk, 0.4FTE)

Temporary Full Time (9 month) contract Opportunity

Location: Based at Ann Street, Brisbane CBD, and required travel across our UnitingCare Hospitals

Remuneration: $64.96 - $73.02/ hr + 12% Super + Not for Profit Salary Packaging + Penalties & Allowances

Make a meaningful difference with UnitingCare Hospitals

We’re looking for someone who wants to make the world a little better through small moments that leave big impacts. To build meaningful relationships and make a difference in the lives of others.

An integral part of our team in UnitingCare Hospitals as a Clinical Nurse Consultant – Digital Health, you’ll be encouraged to grow, develop and feel empowered to make the everyday easier for the people we care so passionately about.

Let’s make a meaningful difference, together.

Your part in UnitingCare Hospitals

The Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) Digital Health will play an integral role in the delivery, support and maintenance of the hospitals clinical and digital systems. This position is a senior clinical role within the corporate team embedded in our hospitals. Relationship building at all levels of the organisation will be a key competency as the role is integral to the successful delivery and support of digital solutions across the clinical landscape.

The role will primarily based in Brisbane but will be expected to travel to our regional hospitals on the Sunshine Coast and Wide-Bay areas as required.

It is supported by the Digital Hospitals team, Biomedical, Digital and Technology and eHealth teams, the CNC Digital Health is a senior clinical role reporting to the Clinical Informatics Team Lead.

The position will have a varied range of responsibilities, including providing system education to medical and other hospital staff and ensuring systems are implemented, used and maintained to meet the NSQHS and current best practice. Engagement in workflow analysis, system design, implementations, upgrades and enhancements are core components of the role. There will be occasions where this position will be embedded in projects as the key clinical resource.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible, in collaboration with digital support and project teams, for ensuring UCH clinical systems align with the latest National Safety and Quality Health Service standards and current best practice.

Participate in the development and release of clinical system upgrades and build work in order to maintain system currency, including testing/organising the testing programs.

Provide systems expertise and advice across the clinical digital landscape

Provide advice and advocacy for the corporate digital health roadmap.

Engage with stakeholders at all organisational levels to ensure maximum adoption of clinical and digital systems.

Vendor management and engagement in consultation with the Clinical Informatics Team Lead, the Digital Hospitals team, the eHealth team and the Digital & Technology project teams.

Ensure Continuous Quality Improvement by identifying system or process improvements that will enhance the user or patient experience and safety, and participating in quality improvement activities.

Participate in workflow redesign and activities in consultation with the hospitals.

Liaise with organisational change managers and project managers to prepare and deliver educational and communications materials across the hospitals.

Provision of advice and expertise to Senior Manager, Digital Health and Information Management, General Manager Patient Revenue and Digital Health, Hospitals executive and corporate executive and management teams as required.

What Makes a difference for us?

Bachelor Degree in Nursing (or equivalent) – with recent Operating Theatre experience

SurgiNet experience

Post graduate eHealth qualification (desirable)

CHIA (desirable)

Experience in the implementation of clinical systems

Extensive experience with Cerner Millennium at a functional level

Understanding of and experience in Cerner build and configuration

Experience in training and education including assisting with the development and delivery of training materials

Leadership of and engagement with multi-disciplinary teams across the continuum of care

Business analysis and process redesign

Flexibility to work at across the 3 hospital sites as required (The Wesley Hospital, St Andrews War Memorial Hospital and Buderim Hospital)

What makes a difference for you?

The opportunity to be part of the second-largest Queensland employer who has been leading by example as a proud not-for-profit, for more than 100 years.

Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance

Access to salary packaging, meal and entertainment benefits - up to $15,900 per year tax free as well as up to $2,650 of your pre-tax income to pay for meal and entertainment benefits

A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, a wellbeing program and employee assistance program

A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others

Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference

Diversity & Inclusion

Our approach is simple –everybody is welcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.

Safe workplace

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.