Project Manager

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Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About EMR Services

The Department provides a wide range of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Services to Austin Health staff.  

ICT and EMR Services is grouped into the following functional streams: 

• ICT Services 

• Infrastructure Services 

• Application, Integration Services 

• Strategy Engagement and Project Services 

• EMR services  

EMR services office is located at the Austin Campus, however staff are required to work across all Austin Health campuses as required.  The EMR team strives for a positive collaborative environment built on trust.  They work towards collective decisions, and they are held accountable for outcomes.  

About the role

The Project Manager is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of a 12‑month project to pilot the Cerner Mobility solution. The role will lead planning, implementation, testing, change management, and evaluation of the Cerner pilot with selected medical units.

A regular day will see you:

• Lead the planning and execution of the Cerner Mobility and renal dialysis workflow digitisation project in accordance with approved scope, timeline, budget, and governance frameworks.

• Develop and maintain project artefacts including Project plan and schedule, Risk, issue, and dependency registers, Status reports and executive updates

• Benefits realisation and evaluation measures

• Ensure compliance with organisational digital health, clinical safety, privacy, and information governance requirements.

• Coordinate the configuration, build, testing, and deployment of Cerner Mobility workflows.

• Work with EMR, technical, integration, and vendor teams to ensure solution readiness and issue resolution.

• Oversee system and user acceptance testing, ensuring clinical sign‑off prior to go live

About you

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Proven ability to manage complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and clinical risk.

• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with experience working directly with clinicians.

• Demonstrated capability in project governance, risk management, reporting, and executive communication.

• Understanding of healthcare privacy, data governance, and clinical safety principles.

Our benefits

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

• Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.

• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.

• Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.

• Mentoring and career development opportunities.

Work with us!

We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.

If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. Austin Health is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with Child Safe Standards. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Lynne Keith, EMR Services Manager at Lynne.KEITH@austin.org.au.

Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.

Application closing date: Sunday 30 August 2026