Clinical Products Advisor

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: The Royal Women's Hospital

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial, Communications, Marketing and Media, Finance, Human Resources, IT and Telecommunications, Information Management, Nursing

Reference: 24838

**Clinical Products Advisor - Finance and Corporate Services**

**Ongoing positon - Full time or part time considered (4 days per week
- salary pro rata)**

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

**About the Department**

The Finance Department brings a commercial perspective to business decision making and supports the Royal Women's business performance by providing the appropriate financial, procurement and business information and advice, as well as driving the organization’s business risk management program.

**Purpose of Position**

The Clinical Products Advisor (CPA) is responsible for the assessment, standardization, and rationalization of clinical products in all clinical areas across the Royal Women’s Hospital.

The CPA is to provide support and advice on any clinical matters to the Procurement team and to its stakeholders. This will involve evaluating and advising on new and existing clinical products with the aim of providing the Women’s stakeholders with the best-valued clinical products and outcomes.

Your duties will include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Identifying alternative fit for purpose products where a product needs to be removed from the catalogue or has been recalled.
- Making introductions, breaking down barriers and fostering collaborative working relationships between the Procurement team and clinical stakeholders.
- To help develop the knowledge and expertise of the Procurement team regarding Clinical Products, Procedures and Processes, to navigate the Clinical structure of the organization, and to understand the clinical mindset and concerns.
- To help Clinicians to understand and embrace Procurement and Contract Management and to promote the benefits of engaging with the Procurement and Supply Chain Team.
- Evaluate new and existing HSV Contracts for clinical and cost effectiveness as well as efficiency, product compliance, and opportunities for product substitution. Where product compliance is not being met, identify alternative products that comply.
- Organize Clinical Products Evaluation working groups, co-ordination of product evaluation activities and report back to the Clinical Product Evaluation Steering Group for endorsement
- Evaluate new and existing clinical products for clinical and cost effectiveness and efficiency
- Evaluate new and existing HSV contracts for clinical and cost effectiveness as well as efficiency and Product Compliance

**About You**

To be successful within this role you will need to have:

- Tertiary qualification or equivalent in a related discipline, i.e Registered Nurse and/or Registered Midwife
- Experience in a similar role within a large and complex acute healthcare provider
- Relevant clinical, quality, financial and risk management experience
- Professional and consumer focused approach to health

**Our offering**

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the**_ exceptional _**in your everyday.

We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.

**Ready to make the move?**

**COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement**

Please be aware that in line with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all workers at the Women's regardless of role, will be required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

**Influenza Vaccination Requirement**

In line with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, some health care workers are now required to have their flu vaccination to work in health care. Evidence of vaccination is required.

As this role fits into category A or B of the departments risk ratings, applicants will be required to have been vaccinated against influen