The Royal Melbourne Hospital is one of Australia’s leading public healthcare providers.

Lead the Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Clinical Product Optimisation Program, applying the principles of Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), value-based healthcare and evidence-based approaches to reduce clinical variation.

Clinical Product Optimisation Lead

• 24-month full-time, fixed-term funded opportunity
• Lead RMH's Clinical Product Optimisation Program, partnering with clinicians to improve outcomes, standardisation and value.
• Close to public transport | Generous salary packaging | additional leave entitlements

About the role

Lead the Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Clinical Product Optimisation Program, applying the principles of Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), value-based healthcare and evidence-based approaches to reduce clinical variation.

Working across surgical and procedural services, you’ll use benchmarking, data and clinical insight to identify opportunities to standardise practice, improve value and support high-quality care.

You’ll work closely with senior clinicians and multidisciplinary stakeholders to influence practice, build consensus and deliver sustainable improvements across a complex healthcare environment.

This is an opportunity to combine your clinical expertise, leadership and project management skills to make a meaningful impact on how care is delivered at RMH.

Key accountabilities

• Develop and implement a RMH Clinical Product Optimisation Program and governance model.
• Identify, analyse and report unwarranted clinical and product variation across designated specialties.
• Lead clinician engagement activities that support standardisation and evidence-based product selection.
• Facilitate clinical consensus and change management initiatives.
• Support procurement sourcing strategies through clinical expertise and data-driven recommendations.
• Develop specialty dashboards and executive reports demonstrating outcomes, benefits and opportunities.
• Drive sustainable improvement initiatives across high-cost clinical areas including orthopaedics, neurosurgery and cardiothoracic surgery.

About you

You are an experienced Registered Nurse and clinical leader with a strong background in perioperative, surgical or procedural services. You bring:

• Current AHPRA registration and relevant postgraduate nursing qualifications
• Significant clinical and nursing leadership experience in an acute healthcare setting
• Experience leading complex projects, service improvement or clinical transformation
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence senior clinicians
• Excellent negotiation, facilitation and communication skills
• Strong analytical skills, with experience using clinical, operational and financial data
• Experience in clinical standardisation, value improvement or reducing unwarranted variation
• Knowledge of clinical governance, healthcare procurement and product evaluation

Experience with GIRFT type model, surgical consumables, prostheses, implant governance, value analysis or strategic procurement will be highly regarded.

Benefits of Working at RMH

• Meaningful Work
  Make a real difference in the lives of patients, families and our community.
• Career Growth
  Access learning, development, and diverse career opportunities.
• Supportive Culture & Belonging
  Join in a diverse and values-led organisation built on kindness, collaboration and inclusion.
• Innovation
  Help shape the future of healthcare through research, technology and new models of care.
• World-Class Excellence
  Work alongside leading healthcare professionals at one of Australia's premier public hospitals, within the Parkville Precinct—one of the world's leading biomedical and research precincts.
• Enjoy great employee benefits
  Salary packaging of up to $12,000 tax free and generous leave entitlements, including additional annual leave and a monthly accrued day off for eligible full-time staff (role/EBA dependent).
• Work in the Parkville Precinct
  Work in the Parkville precinct with excellent public transport, onsite parking options and access to staff health services.

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Interested?

Click Apply to submit your application, including your cover letter outlining your preferred role and your resume.

Interviews may commence as applications are received. Early applications are encouraged as the role may close once filled.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and satisfactory Working With Children Check.

The RMH is committed to creating a culturally safe environment as a collective responsibility. We draw on our principles of self-determination, equity, accountability, and shared learning to create a culturally responsive health system that challenges how we strive for continuous quality improvement to meet the expectations of the communities and patients we serve.

RMH is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with the Child Safe Standards.

As a leader in healthcare, we recognise the need to foster a culture of equity, inclusion, and belonging. We encourage people of all backgrounds, identities, and abilities to apply, and will provide adjustments to support equitable participation.