Digital Readiness Lead Health

Initial 6+ month contract with possible extension paying from $1000/day,
- Brisbane City Fringe location with flexibility to WFH 1 day per week

Our client, a large complex Healthcare organisation, are currently seeking a Digital Readiness Lead for an initial 6 month contract until with possible extension.

**Project Overview**

Replacement of existing 25-year-old laboratory information system (LIS), with a modern system that will reduce current system risks whilst delivering significant efficiency improvements to reduce the cost to serve.

The major benefits of progressing a replacement system are in key areas of electronic requesting, workflow improvements, mobility capability, system support, interfacing improvements and analytics capability. These elements will present a modern solution for our commercial partners and referrers and increase the opportunity for greater private work.

**Role responsibilities**:

- Drive a fit for purpose system and provide technical capability to ensure the LIS solution as designed in its entirety is implemented across the agreed components
- Initial 6+ month contract with possible extension paying from $1000/day,
- Brisbane CBD Location with flexibility to WFH 1 day per week

Our client, a large complex Healthcare organisation, are currently seeking a Digital Readiness Lead for an initial 6 month contract until with possible extension.

**Project Overview**

Replacement of existing 25-year-old laboratory information system (LIS), with a modern system that will reduce current system risks whilst delivering significant efficiency improvements to reduce the cost to serve.

The major benefits of progressing a replacement system are in key areas of electronic requesting, workflow improvements, mobility capability, system support, interfacing improvements and analytics capability. These elements will present a modern solution for our commercial partners and referrers and increase the opportunity for greater private work.

**Role responsibilities**:

- Drive a fit for purpose system and provide technical capability to ensure the LIS solution as designed in its entirety is implemented across the agreed components
- Provide advice to the overarching project manager on the deliverable aspects of the solution implementation. Including contribution to project reporting, particularly in relation to activities, risks, issues, and defects
- Work with solution and business architecture leads to ensure the components are effectively implemented and documented
- Be able to provide leadership and hands on capability in scaling conceptual, logical and physical system architecture in a complex health environment
- Effectively represent, negotiate, and influence colleagues and suppliers to ensure product readiness is prioritised
- Work with business and delivery partners to ensure a safe and functional product is delivered, tested and ensure defects are resolved in a prioritised and timely manner
- Promote the project goals, manage communications, and quickly establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders
- Manage allocated risks in collaboration with the project manager and delivery leads within agreed tolerances, escalate, and report any project risks in a timely manner.
- Ensure system, integration and product readiness, key aspects include; Alignment to Integration standards and architecture, Ensuring effective Data management, Alignment to Legislation and regulatory requirements and Adherence to the gated requirements of the Software development lifecycle

**Most challenging part of role**:

- Delivery of a safe and stable product ready for clinical and scientific use, which brings value to the organisation, conscious of achieving outcomes with the pressures of time, cost, risk, and quality
- The solution environment is a highly integrated solution utilising HL7, API and multi-modal integration between systems, pathology instruments, and internal and external systems (referral laboratories, registries, national bodies etc)
- The delivery environment is highly complex with a specialist multi-site clinical and scientific laboratory environment

**Technical skills & industry experience required**:

- Significant digital product implementation experience in large and complex organisations
- Experience in health projects is a minimum with ideally LIS project experience
- An understanding of health integration (including HL7) approaches is a minimum
- Experience in utilising Jira would be ideal
- Experience with MS teams and MS Visio ideal
- High level communication skills with technical, business and project resources

Your interest will be treated in the strictest of confidence.