Consumer Health Information Consultant

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, Facilities Management, Finance, Health and Allied Health, Human Resources, IT and Telecommunications, Information Management, Medical

Reference: 25132
- **Full time or part time option available 38 hours p/w, ongoing**:

- ** Parkville location with hybrid working option**:

- ** AO5 salary + Salary Packaging + 5 weeks Annual Leave**

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest tertiary hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of women and newborns, offering specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health. Our goal is to be the best place to work, learn and contribute, and to provide exceptional experiences for our patients and consumers.

**About Consumer Health Information, within the Patient and Visitor Services under the People and Patient Experience Team at the Women's**

The people and Patient Experience Team is responsible for providing strategic and operational services to support the experience of patients and consumers, and our employees at the Women's. The team is committed to forming strong internal and external partnerships through the implementation and integration of contemporary patient experience and human resource practice.

The Consumer Health Information values evidence based, current information being delivered to the community in a factual manner, with a health literacy focus. The role of the Patient and Consumer Health Information Consultant, is to develop and quality assure the Women's suite of patient and consumer health information. This position will support patient communication, patient information, brochures and publications, virtual care, telehealth and other initiatives, and support shared decision making. This small team supports health information dissemination across multiple platforms in alignment with the Women's patient experience priorities and objectives.
Please refer to the position description for a more detailed view of this position.

**About the role**

A regular day will see you:

- Liaising with internal and external experts in their field
- Ensuring the latest, high quality, evidence-based health information is available to our patients and consumers

**About you**

You’ll bring with you:

- Experience in a hospital or healthcare setting, working on consumer health information
- Relevant education or degree
- Possess high level understanding of health literacy and barriers to health literacy

**Key Selection Criteria**
- Exceptional writing and editing skills
- Ability to work effectively in a small team

**Our benefits**

At the Women’s you will enjoy a culture that is collaborative, supportive and passionate about learning. We have a strong sense of purpose, and engage in meaningful work every day. We offer our people a range of rewarding benefits, including:

- $11,660 in salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted financial, lifestyle and health options, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Public transport options at our doorstep and end of journey facilities for cyclists
- Onsite childcare centre and breastfeeding rooms
- Mentoring, learning and career development opportunities
- Five weeks annual leave, monthly ADO’s
- Flexible, hybrid working arrangements

**Inclusion and belonging**

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