About the Role:
This is a Fixed Term, part-time or full-time (0.6 - 1.0 FTE) position until 30/06/2027 at 80 hours per fortnight.
Internally, this position may also be known and/or referred to as: Change Lead - RCH Campus Mental Health Strategy OR Clinical Educator - Change Lead, RCH Campus Mental Health Strategy.
Classification for this position is in accordance with Award 10 - Managers and Administrative Workers.
Depending on experience and qualifications, this will range from AO81 (Grade 8, Level 1) to AO85 (Grade 8, Level 5), $124,912.84 to $137,858.40 per annum, pro rata for part-time, plus superannuation.
What You Will Achieve:
Reporting to the Program Manager, RCH Campus Mental Health Strategy, this role leads delivery of the SAPHER project, under the final phase of the RCH Campus Mental Health Strategy 2026/27.
The Change Lead plays a critical role in ensuring the change initiatives achieve their intended outcomes on time and within budget by driving staff adoption, effective utilisation and sustained behavioural change, while minimising resistance. The role focuses on the people side of change, and address the impacts to operational processes, systems and technology.
You will work alongside a broader team to build organisation-wide capacity and capability for sustainable improvement at RCH. Working alongside the broader team, you will help foster a culture of curiosity (to support a growth and learning mindset), inclusion (where evidence, data and people are critical), courage (to make change and support others to sustain change) and kindness (to take risk, fail fast and learn in a safe place).
Role Context:
Launched in 2021, the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Campus Mental Health Strategy coordinated a comprehensive program of integrated, evidence-based approaches to mental health research, education, and care. The RCH Campus Mental Health Strategy is in its final stage of delivery. The Strategy has supported the development of two digital tools to ensure evidence-based, best practices in mental health screening and decision support.
This Behaviours of Concern (BOC) optimisation project aims to improve patient and family experiences by enabling early identification and documentation of behavioural support needs in relevant children and adolescents presenting with BOC, and children and adolescents who are neurodivergent, within the EMR, enabling proactive care planning, tailored coping strategies, and trauma-informed approaches. The Behaviour Support Profile (BSP) Tool documents and addresses the non-medical needs of patients, including communication preferences, sensory sensitivities, and coping strategies. The BSP helps staff tailor care to each patient, reducing distress and enhancing their sense of safety and wellbeing.
The Suicide Aggression Preventative Healthcare Evidence based Reform (SAPHER) Project modernises mental health risk screening, assessment and management within RCH. Under the project, a Risk Assessment and Formulation Tool (RAFT) has been developed by a multidisciplinary group of staff in collaboration with children and carer representatives and based on evidence-based and best practices in mental health risk management. The RAFT, embedded in EMR, supports the assessment, formulation and documentation of suicide, self-harm, aggression, developmental and psychosocial risks. The routine application of the use of the RAFT in clinical practice, forms a part of high quality, tertiary mental health care for infants and children 0 to 18 years.
The Strategy’s final phase of work will deliver sustainable reform by embedding these resources within the Electronic Medical Record, as part of a comprehensive approach comprising fit-for-purpose digital infrastructure, people-centred workflow redesign, clinical leadership, workforce enablement and culture change.
Your skills and experience:
Essential:
- Post graduate tertiary qualification in relevant field
- Demonstrated experience leading change in complex, multi-stakeholder projects preferably within tertiary hospital settings
- Knowledge and experience leading change within mental health services
- Demonstrated experience delivering Electronic Medical Record optimisation and clinical workflow transformation initiatives, with the ability to translate business requirements into sustainable practice change
- Proven ability to lead change management in time-limited programs
- Skilled at engaging and influencing clinicians, operational leaders and consumers to achieve outcomes
- High-level analytical and communication skills, including the ability to prepare robust change management plans
- Commitment to equity, patient-centred care and the principles of continuous improvement
Desirable:
- Experience in a major public hospital or Victorian health sector setting
- Familiarity with PROSCI methodology for change management
- Familiarity with co-design, or other improvement methodologies
- Familiarity with mental health models of care, including understanding of suicide prevention approaches, risk formulation and safety planning
If this sounds like you, or if you require more information, please click here to view the position description.
What we offer:
Other Requirements:
- Employees are required to undertake a National Criminal Record Check and a Working with Children Check prior to commencing employment
- Employees are required to maintain a valid Working with Children Check throughout their employment
- Employees are required to maintain compliance with RCHs “Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases” procedure
Application process:
To apply, you will need a resume and a tailored cover letter outlining your skills, experience, and suitability for the position in line with the requirements of the position description.
Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately, we encourage you to apply promptly!
For more information about this position please contact Dr Gayani Hettiarachchi Senarath, Program Manager - RCH Campus Mental Health Strategy via ph: (03) 9345 5505 OR email: [email protected]
Why work at the RCH?
RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.
We also offer staff benefits such as discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.
The RCH is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse background, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with disability.
It is a requirement of your employment that you be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.
It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption, and offers of employment are conditional on successful completion of background checks including reference checks.
Are you ready to join our team?
Apply online by clicking on the “Apply” button
Applications close: 27 August 2026.
