Digital Specialist - Health
- Sydney, NSW Saint Leonards, NSW
- Temporary
- Full-time
- Temporary Full-Time Exempt for up to 3 years
- Opportunity to work from our modern offices in Chatswood, St Leonards, or Charlestown
- In-office presence with hybrid flexibility for work-life balance
- Attractive salary, up to $144,444 + 12% Super + 17.5% annual leave loading
- Increase your take home pay with salary packaging, meal allowance, fitness passport and more
- Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day through digital innovation
At eHealth NSW, we're leading the digital transformation of Australia's largest health system. As NSW Health's digital centre of excellence, we design, build and support world-class ICT solutions that improve patient care across the state.Guided by a Cloud First Strategy, we're harnessing digital technology to better patient care and deliver scalable, quality, patient-centred, digital healthcare. With your skills and experience, you can help enrich the lives of millions while developing your career within Australia's largest health organisation-alongside passionate tech professionals, health partners and industry leaders building solutions that truly make a difference.About the OpportunityThis Digital Specialist- Health role is within the Clinical Health Information Exchange (CHIE) team, part of the Clinical Repositories and Integration Systems directorate of Service Delivery.The CHIE is a patient centric clinical repository supporting transfers and continuity of care across NSW healthcare settings (public and private). The CHIE receives, stores, and displays patient information from multiple electronic medical record systems (eMRs) in a single unified view allowing clinicians timely access to relevant aggregated clinical information to enable immediate clinical care.As a Digital Specialist- Health for the CHIE, you will play a key role in ensuring accuracy, reliability, stability, and performance of the CHIE:
- Driving and delivering functional, technical, and application support, forging strong partnerships across teams to enable collaboration and improve healthcare delivery
- Collaborating with multiple stakeholder groups (eHealth teams, contributor system clinicians and IT professionals, and vendors) to identify and clarify challenges, and co-design solutions that directly enhance patient and clinician outcomes
- Engineering, optimising, and maintaining complex, large-scale applications, ensuring performance, interoperability, and usability while communicating clearly through documentation and updates
- Resolving and orchestrating responses to complex incidents, managing critical situations swiftly to minimise disruptions to essential health services.
- Championing innovation by researching emerging technologies, designing learning resources, and driving continuous improvements that empower Digital Specialists and support frontline healthcare workers
- Facilitating troubleshooting and validation to support streamlined issue resolution and change implementation
- Has proven experience in clinical or digital health solutions, preferably in a shared services or clinical environment.
- Demonstrated ability to identify analyse and solve problems in a clinical environment.
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Our people are at the heart of who we are. We support our people with great so they can enrich health in millions of ways every day:
- Flexible work options
- Professional growth and career development
- Allocated day off per month
- Salary packaging
Share with us your cover letter and most up to date resume (up to 5 pages), highlighting your relevant skills and experience.We recognise that AI tools are increasingly being used to assist with resumes and applications. While we accept their use, we're eager to see your personality and get to know the person behind the application!For further discussions around the role or recruitment process, including adjustments, please contact our Talent Advisor at or Hiring Manager, Heather Voaden atAdditional information
- This recruitment may be used to create a Talent Pool for similar future roles (ongoing or temporary) that may arise over the next 18 months.
- To be eligible for this role you must have current Australian work rights (Australian citizen, permanent resident, New Zealand citizen with a current passport, or hold a valid visa with permission to work in Australia).
- 'Exempt' is defined as a fixed term contract with a length greater than 13 weeks.