Imaging Research and Knowledge Translation Lead

Job Requisition ID: 5367
- Legal Entity: Monash Health
- Location: Clayton, VIC, AU, 3168
- Employment Type: Part Time
- Posting Date: 5 Aug 2025

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**About the Allied Health Research and Knowledge Translation Program**

The Allied Health Research and Knowledge Translation program is a Department of Health funded initiative focusing on enhanced research, education, and leadership capacity for allied health professionals. The program is focused on improving the delivery of allied health services through generating and translating favourable research evidence to clinical practice. Aims/objectives of the program are:

- to strengthen Victorian health services’ ability to engage effectively in the nexus between research and knowledge translation across the allied health professions,
- to provide career development and opportunities for early career allied health researchers,
- to build a network of emerging leaders in allied health research and knowledge translation with strong links across services and organisations,
- to assist health services to efficiently translate research findings into program and practice change,
- to assist health services to embed an organisational culture of enquiry and evidence,
- to create broader research capacity within Victorian health services across all allied health workforces, by building research knowledge and skills and supporting research design, development, publication, and dissemination of findings,
- to enhance the allied health research maturity of participating organisations,
- to improve the evidence‐base for allied health clinical practice and service delivery,
- to optimise and effectively utilise the value of allied health professionals to strategically pursue, inform and deliver improvement in areas of greatest need for innovation and change, and
- to improve and enhance the quality of allied health care to drive quality and safety improvements.

**Purpose**

The purpose of this role is to increase the capability and capacity of Allied Health Sciences staff to undertake collaborative translational research, and to enhance the use of accumulated routine data and data linkage methods to undertake targeted research that will impact patient outcomes at Monash Health. A primary goal of the position is to maintain and strengthen a shared research platform with Monash University. Key deliverables include: the support, development and conduct of research projects that investigate emerging public health priorities within Radiology.

The position's aim is to develop collaborative research projects and capabilities/capacity within and across the medical imaging departments. The Allied Health Research and Knowledge Translation Lead will design, develop, and implement research, in addition to supporting the growth of research activity and skills for allied health professionals. The incumbent will receive support to develop their leadership capabilities, enabling them to create strong linkages between clinicians, researchers, and academics, and foster the next generation of allied health clinical researchers.

For further details, please refer to the Allied Health Research and Knowledge Translation Program Guidelines for 2022-2025.

**About Monash Imaging**

Monash Health Imaging (MHI) provides diagnostic imaging and interventional radiology services to Monash Medical Centre Clayton, Moorabbin Hospital, Dandenong and Casey Hospitals, and Monash Children's Hospital. The MHI Department is fully integrated with Philips PACS/RIS and equipped with some of the latest medical imaging technology including eight MRI units, 13 CT units, more than 25 ultrasound units, six gamma cameras including three with SPECT CT, two PET/CTs, and three angiography suites for Interventional Radiology and Neurointerventional Radiology. MHI also supports the Monash Biomedical Imaging site, one of the Monash University platforms that provides capacity and capability for human MRI and PET MRI research.

Together with the Monash University Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, MHI is currently the largest research department in Australia as measured by research funding and number of publications. The MHI service provides over 365,000 imaging examinations per year across all sites and currently employs approximately 600 EFT.

The Imaging program clearly defines its mission as the delivery of leading edge, evidence-based diagnostic and therapeutic imaging services, and research and education that meets the needs of our community and employees.

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