Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO)

The Hospital: The Royal Children’s Hospital’s (RCH) Vision is “A world where all kids thrive”. RCH is a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children’s Campus, partnering with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation. RCH has cared for the children and young people of Victoria for more than 150 years since it was founded in 1870. A full range of paediatrics and adolescent health services are provided plus tertiary and quaternary care for the most critically ill and medically complex patients in Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and other states around Australia and overseas. The Hospital has more than 6,000 staff, a budget of $850M, 12 wards and 350 beds. Annually, the RCH has 300,000+ Specialist Clinic appointments, 90,000+ Emergency Department presentations and 20,000 elective surgeries. The RCH is committed to the Child Safe Standards. RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. For further Information on RCH is available here. Chief Nursing Information Officer (CBIO) • Work for Australia's leading paediatric hospital • Ongoing, Full-Time position • Strategic nursing leadership role at the forefront of shaping nursing informatics and digital nursing practice at a digitally forward and innovative organisation • Excellent employee benefits including salary packaging • Flexible work options available, including ability to combine with clinical roles and duties About the Role: This is an ongoing full-time position within the Digital Innovation and EMR Team. The role is able to commence immediately. The CNIO is the executive nursing leader responsible for nursing informatics and digital nursing practice across RCH. Working in partnership with the Executive Chief Nursing Officer the CNIO ensures digital strategy, EMR optimisation, data, analytics and AI align with nursing professional standards, workforce priorities and contemporary models of care. The CNIO is a member of the Nursing Professional Council and contributes to organisation-wide nursing strategy, governance, workforce capability and professional standards. The CNIO acts as the principal advisor to the Executive Chief Nursing Officer on digital nursing strategy, informatics, and emerging technologies. The role provides the professional nursing leadership for informatics across the organisation, ensuring digital transformation advances nursing practice, professional standards, workforce capability and patient outcomes. The CNIO ensures the EMR and associated digital technologies support current and future nursing workflows, reduce documentation burden, and contribute to measurable improvements in the safety, quality, efficiency and experience of patient and family-centred care. The role champions the engagement of the nursing workforce in the use of data, technology and eHealth to deliver interoperable, patient-centric, user-friendly and evidence-based care. The CNIO leads the nursing informatics team, sets the nursing digital health and informatics strategy, owns the nursing EMR governance and optimisation agenda, and builds a sustainable pipeline of nursing informatics capability through the Nursing Informatician role and the rotational Nursing Informatics Fellow program. The CNIO also provides nursing leadership for areas such as the responsible adoption of AI, predictive analytics and other emerging technologies as they affect nursing practice and patient care. Classification for this position will be according to the Nursing & Midwives (Victorian Public Health Sector) Enterprise Agreement ********* (Division Clinical Director 8A). What you'll achieve: Strategy & Leadership • Provide, develop and lead the nursing digital health and informatics strategy across RCH, ensuring alignment of nursing and hospital strategy with clinical systems, data, analytics, AI and broader technological advancement • Lead planning, development and implementation of strategic and tactical clinical information systems and associated technologies to support current and future nursing workflows and models of care • Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders including RCH and Parkville Executive, fellow CxIOs (CCIO, CMIO, CAHIO, CPIO and precinct CNIOs), the Executive Director Nursing Services, MCRI, The University of Melbourne and external digital health bodies • Represent nursing on Parkville EMR, campus and state-wide digital health governance committees, and act as the senior nursing advocate for paediatric-specific and nursing-specific requirements in digital system design • Undertake horizon scanning for best practice in nursing informatics, digital health, data and AI, and translate emerging evidence into local strategy • Ensure compliance with RCH policies and financial responsibility according to delegations and budget parameters • Advise the Executive Chief Nursing Officer on digital strategy impacting nursing practice. • Ensure nursing informatics initiatives align with the Nursing Strategic Plan. • Ensure nursing data supports nursing-sensitive quality indicators, professional practice evaluation and strategic nursing decision-making. Team Leadership and Workforce Development • Lead the development of digital capability across the nursing workforce to support the use of digital technologies, analytics and AI to improve care delivery and career pathways. • Contribute to professional nursing governance, career pathways and standards • Lead the nursing informatics team, setting clear goals, managing resources and supporting the professional development of team members • Provide professional leadership, mentorship and supervision to the Nursing Informatician, and oversight of the rotational Nursing Informatics Fellow program, building a pipeline of nursing informatics capability • Sponsor and continuously improve the Nursing Informatics Fellowship as a development pathway that pairs informatics placements with clinical practice • Contribute to a strong people culture, supported by strategy, informed by People Matters, that focuses on a culture of inclusivity and respect • Champion an innovation and learning culture through coaching, mentoring and guiding nursing staff across the organisation EMR and Clinical Systems • Lead the nursing EMR strategy, including governance, prioritisation, optimisation and benefits realisation for nursing workflows • Ensure the EMR and associated technologies support safe, efficient, high-quality and patient and family-centred nursing care, with attention to paediatric medication safety, growth, developmental and safeguarding considerations • Identify opportunities to optimise nursing workflows, documentation, flowsheets, care plans and clinical decision support, with a deliberate focus on reducing nursing documentation burden • Provide senior nursing oversight of point-of-care technologies, including device integration, barcode medication administration, patient monitoring and mobility solutions • Support incident review and system improvement where digital systems contribute to clinical risk, and participate in digital clinical governance and safety structures • Oversee assessment of EMR upgrades, changes of workflows and functionality as they affect nursing, in partnership with the Parkville EMR program Data, Analytics and AI • Provide senior nursing leadership for the hospital’s data and analytics agenda, championing the use of EMR and enterprise data to drive nursing-sensitive quality indicators, workforce insights, operational performance, benefits realisation and research • Work with nursing leadership (NUMs / ANUMs and directors) to embed the use of reports, dashboards and Epic nurse utilisation data (e.g. PEP / NEAT) in operational decision-making • Provide nursing governance leadership for the safe, ethical and