Clinical Informatics Officer Outpatients

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan, Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: The Royal Women's Hospital

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial, Health and Allied Health, IT and Telecommunications, Nursing

Reference: 24998

**Clinical Informatics Officer - Outpatients**

**Ongoing full time position (38.00 hours per week plus ADO)**

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.

The Informatics Department provides a comprehensive support service to The Clincal Informatics Officer (Outpatients) role sits within the Informatics Department which has 4 key portfolios:

- Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
- Business Intelligence & Analytics
- Health Information Services
- Archives.

The EMR is used by more than 18,000 clinicians and staff across the four health services and is delivered in partnership with Epic, a global leader in health information technology.

**Your contribution**

The Clinical Informatics Officer will work collaboratively with RWH EMR team and Parkville EMR team to deliver end user training and support the delivery of the Women's EMR enhancement and optimisation plan. This roles portfolio will focus on supporting outpatients areas.

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

- Provide support & system configuration for approved outpatient enhancements that align with the continuous improvement of the EMR
- Deliver EMR communications and education to support the introduction of new build changes and EMR upgrades and other ongoing training needs.
- Perform analysis of workflows, enhancement requests and other technical issues associated with the EMR and work with key stakeholder to develop functional and technical solutions that reflect an in-depth understanding of the user’s requirements.

**About you**

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

- A sound understanding of EMR functionality to support clinical workflow
- Advanced skills in workflow review and design and proven ability to deliver solutions that meet the needs of end users
- Epic Application Certification and/or equivalent experience (highly desirable)

**Our offerining**

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**

All applicants will be required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status.

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