About Flinders

Our bold vision, captured in our Strategic Plan: making a Difference: The 2025 Agenda, is to be internationally recognised as a world leader in research, an innovator in contemporary education, and the source of Australia’s most enterprising graduates.

To realise this ambition, we recently made a significant organisation change to a six College structure with a professional staff and services alignment.

We recognise the key to our success is exceptional people and we’re seeking an outstanding individual to join the team of our transformed university.

Employment Type:
Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Position Summary
Fixed-term, full-time available for 2 years

Compensation Grade:
Research Academic Level B

Salary Range:
$98,062 - $116,046 pa

Reporting to:
Associate Professor of Digital Psychiatry and Personal Health Informatics

The Digital Health Research Fellow will be member of the Digital Health CRC research project team developing and implementing ready to deploy analytical solutions for combining various health data sources in near real time to support the clinician, the patient and the care pathway. The project in collaboration with industry partners SA Health and goAct Pty Ltd will trial ways to purposefully combine data from wearables and apps, prescriptions, GP appointments, lab tests and hospitals, into solutions for digital assessments, monitoring progress over time, as well as intercepting and supporting patients ahead of relapse. The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated understanding of and/or experience in digital health program development and implementation in health care setting, well developed skills in trial and evaluation of digital health approaches, and a demonstrated understanding of the role of digital health in improving quality and safety of care, and a sound understanding of the Digital health ecosystem within the Australian health care landscape.

The appointee will also contribute, as a team member, to convening the Steering Group and stakeholders for the project and to related activities including staff meetings and seminars. The successful candidate will be a self-starter with the personal attributes and organisational skills to drive the work of an academic, multi-disciplinary team.

Key Position Responsibilities

The Research Fellow is accountable for:

• Actively contributing to the research project by collaborating with the Research Team to successfully deliver project milestones and Key Performance Indicators.
• Independently contributing to the planning and execution of research by offering new and innovative ideas, reviewing relevant literature and other sources of information, actively participating in the production of data, contributing to the writing and editing of grant applications and attending seminars, meetings and conferences.
• Playing a lead role in coordinating, planning and executing the project tasks required to collaborate with industry partners.
• Independently contributing to ethical, high quality and innovative research and evaluation through activities such as scholarship, publishing in recognised high quality journals and assisting the preparation and submission of bids for external research funding.
• Supervision of honours and post graduate research projects.
• Establishing and maintaining collaborations within the University, and at State, national and international levels in order to improve research outputs, patents and publications.
• Some out of hours work (including weekends) as well as rural SA, interstate and overseas travel, may be required.
• Any other responsibilities in line with the level of the position as assigned by the Supervisor and/or the University.

Key Position Capabilities

• Completion of a PhD or equivalent qualification in applied biomedical or health informatics, or any other field related to data science.
• Research experience in the field of digital health, particularly in development and evaluation of digital health interventions
• Background in digital health application development.
• Experience working in the academic or healthcare sectors.
• The ability to work with academic and clinical colleagues in a multi-disciplinary team environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex research projects including development of effective plans, timelines and milestones.
• Demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills in research collaboration and engagement.
• Experience working with advisory committees and steering groups.
• Strong skills and initiative in problem solving.
• Demonstrated ability to work as a member of a research team and interact in a courteous and effective manner with academic, clinical and operational team members.
• Demonstrated experience to undertake collaborative research and establish and maintain effective relationships with staff and industry.
• Demonstrated research experience in terms of publications in high quality publications, and presentations at a national and/or international level.
• Demonstrated understanding of Australia health care ecosystem, particularly reimbursement and implementation of digital health programs such as My Health Records (desirable).
• Experience in translation of research into practice(desirable).
• Demonstrated experience in working with diverse stakeholders (desirable).
• Track record of data preparation and figure preparation for publications, dissemination and grant applications (desirable).

For application enquiries please contact: A/Prof Niranjan Bidargaddi

Information for Applicants:

You are required to provide a suitability statement of no more than three pages, addressing the key capabilities of the position as outlined above. In addition, you are required to upload your CV.

A valid National Police Certificate which is satisfactory to the University will also be required before the successful applicant can commence in this position.

We are seeking to increase the diversity to improve equal opportunity outcomes for employees, and therefore we encourage female applicants, people with a disability and/or from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders descent to apply.

Please note, late applications and applications sent via agencies will not be accepted.

Applications Close 11:59 pm:

10 May 2021