Chief Medical Officer

**Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Occupational Health Physician (OHP)**:
**Job No.**:643440

**Location**:Clayton campus

**Employment Type**:Full-time, fixed-term appointment

**Remuneration**:A competitive remuneration package will apply
- **Critical role ensuring the health and wellbeing of the University’s international **community**:

- **Diverse and challenging role for an experienced Occupational Health Physician with **interest and/or experience in population health**:

- **Advise the University’s senior executives on matters of preventative and remedial **healthcare**

Underpinning Monash University’s strong commitment to the health and wellbeing of all members of its community, the combined role of CMO and OHP is of critical importance. Having navigated the complexities of COVID with great success, the University prides itself on creating and sustaining a place of work and learning that addresses the health and wellbeing needs of all community members, both preventatively where possible, and remedially where necessary.

This is an incredibly exciting role for an appropriately experienced professional to join the team as both an advisor to the senior executive, and as an active practitioner serving the diverse needs across the University’s international footprint. Your deep experience and understanding of complex workplaces will ensure that you can engage with confidence and authority, leading the University through all health-related challenges.

**About Monash University**:
Monash University is an energetic and dynamic university committed to high-quality education, outstanding research, and international engagement. A member of Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight research-intensive universities, and ranked among the top 100
universities worldwide, Monash is a university seeking to make a difference in everything we do, through seeking new answers and solutions to the challenges facing our world.

With a presence on three continents and the strongest international competitive research funding record of any Australian university, Monash is fast emerging as a truly global university. Our global footprint includes four Australian campuses, Monash Malaysia, Monash Indonesia, and centres in India, Italy, and the People’s Republic of China. Its alliance with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom represents a world-first in university collaboration, spanning shared degrees, joint academic appointments, and research projects.

With approximately 86,000 students (and more than 440,000 alumni) from over 160 countries, Monash is Australia’s largest university. Its research and education focusses on addressing the challenges of the age for the betterment of our communities, both locally and globally. The University’s Strategic Plan, Impact 2030, charts the path for how it will actively contribute to addressing these challenges through its research and education, and in collaboration with government, industry and community.

**About the role**:
The position of Chief Medical Officer and Occupational Health Physician is a unique position that performs two very distinct and crucial functions for the University.

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is responsible for providing expert medical advice to the University’s executive management on matters relating to the health and wellbeing of the University community. The CMO works closely with the University Health Service to ensure that the service is adequately responding to public health incidents and emergencies and providing a high-quality healthcare service to all staff and students. It is critical that the CMO establishes and sustains a partnership with the Department of Health and related agencies, ensuring that the University’s policies, procedures, and activities are aligned with State and Federal advice and standards.

The Occupational Health Physician (OHP) works within the Health, Safety and Wellbeing team and is responsible for providing targeted occupational health advice so that staff and students can safely engage in all education/work-related activities with mínimal risk to health and safety. The OHP also plays a pivotal role in the promotion of preventive health strategies and workplace wellbeing.

**About you**:

- Bachelor of Medicine/Surgery
- Post-graduate qualifications in occupational health and/or public health
- Fellowship of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- Evidence of experience in medical practice or medical research
- Evidence of experience, commitment to, and promotion of, organisational health and wellbeing programs
- Demonstrated initiative, judgement, and ability to communicate effectively to manage highly complex public health emergencies
- Demonstrated negotiation and problem-solving skills and ability to provide strategic advice to senior leadership groups
- Outstanding relationship management and consulting skills, including the ability to interact with, influen