Chief Nursing Informatics Officer

St Vincent’S Health Australia; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Part time

Job summary

St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne (SVHM), in partnership with Grampians Health, is delivering Victoria's first shared Electronic Medical Record (EMR) across metropolitan, regional and rural health services.

The CNIO will lead nursing informatics during the YourEMR journey, ensuring nursing voices and clinical expertise shape design, build and implementation of the new EMR while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in Nursing.
• Current RN registration with AHPRA.
• Minimum five years of senior nursing leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of clinical informatics and digital health.
• Proven ability to lead large-scale change and transformation initiatives.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills.
• Experience working across multidisciplinary environments.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Providing strategic nursing leadership and informatics expertise to the YourEMR Program.
• Leading nursing engagement to ensure meaningful clinical input into EMR design.
• Reviewing and optimising nursing workflows for future-state digital care delivery.
• Supporting complex clinical decision-making related to workflow design and patient care.
• Identifying workforce impacts and developing change adoption strategies.
• Contributing to the design of nursing workflows, decision-support tools and orders.
• Collaborating with medical, pharmacy and allied health informatics leaders.
• Providing expert advice on clinical risk identification and mitigation during implementation.
• Supporting education and readiness activities for nursing teams.
• Building relationships across clinical, executive and program stakeholder groups.

Skills

Senior Nursing Leadership

Clinical Informatics

Healthcare Analytics

Stakeholder Engagement

Change Management

Cross-functional Collaboration

Analytical Thinking

Decision Making

Education

Nursing Degree

Job description

Description

• Senior Leadership Opportunity
• Fixed-Term Contract to September 2028
• Part-Time | 4 Days per Week
• Join Victoria's Largest Healthcare Digital Transformation Program

Lead the Future of Nursing and Digital Health

St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne (SVHM), in partnership with Grampians Health, is delivering Victoria's first shared Electronic Medical Record (EMR) across metropolitan, regional and rural health services.

The YourEMR Program represents one of the most significant digital transformations ever undertaken in Victorian healthcare. This landmark initiative will create a connected digital patient record spanning inpatient, ambulatory and community care settings, fundamentally changing how care is delivered across the state.

We are seeking an exceptional nursing leader to join the program as Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO) and play a pivotal role in ensuring nursing voices, workflows and clinical expertise are embedded at the heart of this transformational program.

This is a rare opportunity to influence the future of nursing practice while helping shape a digitally enabled healthcare system that will benefit generations of patients and clinicians.

About the Role

Reporting to the Head of EMR Adoption at SVHM and maintaining professional accountability to the Chief Nursing Officer, the CNIO will serve as the principal nursing informatics leader throughout the YourEMR journey.

You will work closely with executive nursing leaders, clinicians and multidisciplinary stakeholders to ensure nursing practice, patient safety and clinical excellence are reflected in the design, build and implementation of the new EMR.

As a trusted advisor and change leader, you will champion nursing engagement, drive clinical transformation and support the workforce to successfully transition to new ways of delivering care.

What You'll Be Responsible For

• Providing strategic nursing leadership and informatics expertise to the YourEMR Program
• Leading nursing engagement across SVHM to ensure meaningful clinical input into EMR design and decision-making
• Reviewing and optimising nursing workflows to support future-state digital care delivery
• Supporting complex clinical decision-making related to workflow design, documentation and patient care processes
• Identifying workforce impacts and developing strategies to support successful change adoption
• Contributing to the design of nursing workflows, decision-support tools, order sets and treatment plans
• Collaborating with medical, pharmacy and allied health informatics leaders to deliver integrated clinical solutions
• Providing expert advice on clinical risk identification and mitigation throughout implementation
• Supporting education, training and readiness activities for nursing teams
• Building strong relationships across clinical, executive and program stakeholder groups

About You

You are a highly respected nursing leader with a passion for digital health, innovation and improving patient outcomes.

You thrive in complex environments, bring others on the journey through influence and collaboration, and understand how technology can strengthen clinical practice and enhance patient care.

Essential Requirements

• Tertiary qualifications in Nursing
• Current registration as a Registered Nurse with AHPRA
• Demonstrated senior nursing leadership experience (minimum five years)
• Strong knowledge of clinical informatics, digital health and healthcare analytics
• Proven ability to lead large-scale change and transformation initiatives
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills
• Experience working collaboratively across complex multidisciplinary environments
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making capabilities

Why Join the YourEMR Program?

This is more than a project role. It's an opportunity to leave a lasting legacy on healthcare delivery across Victoria.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Lead nursing innovation within one of Victoria's largest healthcare transformation programs
• Influence how future generations of clinicians deliver care
• Partner with senior clinical and executive leaders across multiple health services
• Improve patient safety, connectivity and healthcare outcomes at scale
• Be part of an organisation renowned for excellence in healthcare, research, education and innovation
• Help create a digitally connected health system that places clinicians and patients at the centre of care

St Vincent's Health Australia celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, identities, abilities and experiences, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

SVHA has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine-preventable diseases in healthcare settings. Successful applicants may be required to meet immunisation and vaccination requirements, including COVID-19 vaccination requirements in accordance with relevant government directions.

Closing Date:

15 November 2026 11:59pm