Clinical Lead - Digital Decision Support Pathways

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POSITION DESCRIPTION

The Clinical Lead at Kraken Coding owns the development, review, and clinical safety of all clinical content delivered through the Clinical Branches platform. The role leads our part‑time clinical content developer team, drives expansion of decision‑support content across all disease states, and is the primary clinical contributor to the company's Quality and Information Security Management System (QISMS) and TGA regulatory work.

About Kraken Coding

Kraken Coding is an Australian health‑tech company building Clinical Branches, an ISO 13485 certified clinical decision support platform used in more than 70 Australian hospitals and now expanding internationally. Our drag‑and‑drop pathway tool helps clinicians make safer, faster, evidence‑based decisions at the point of care, and the structured data those pathways generate is now powering a machine‑learning model to predict and prevent patient deterioration.

About the role

We are recruiting a Clinical Lead to take ownership of clinical content development across the entire Clinical Branches platform (see www.krakencoding.com). This is the senior clinical position in our company.

In 2025 we successfully secured $1.93M in NSW Medical Devices Fund grant funding to expand our platform beyond infectious diseases into additional disease states; Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Neurology, Oncology, Palliative Care, Psychotropic, Pain and Analgesia, Gastrointestinal, Diabetes, Toxicology and Toxinology, Rheumatology, Liver Disorders, and Addiction. The Clinical Lead will spearhead this expansion.

You will lead a small team of part‑time clinical content developers and be the company's primary clinical voice in the design, review, and validation of every pathway, calculator, and workflow we ship. You will also be a core contributor to our Quality and Information Security Management System (QISMS), helping us maintain ISO 13485, ISO 27001, and ISO 27017 certification and supporting our TGA and MDSAP regulatory work.

What you will do

- Lead the clinical content roadmap across all disease states, prioritising development to align with the NSW Medical Devices Fund project plan and the wider Clinical Branches commercial roadmap.

- Translate the Australian Therapeutic Guidelines and other peer‑reviewed evidence into clinical decision‑support pathways, calculators, and clinical workflows.

- Continue training and developing our guideline to pathway AI algorithm so it is applicable across disease states (we will show you how to do this).

- Lead, coach, and coordinate the part‑time clinical content developer team. Set priorities, review their output,



and apply standardisation across clinical content.

- Review and approve clinical content before release. Maintain a single editorial voice and a clinically defensible evidence base for every pathway we ship.

- Work directly with the engineering team on the design of new product features that influence clinical reasoning including the machine‑learning predictive analytics module being developed under the NSW MDF grant.

- Contribute to and own the clinical sections of our ISO 13485 Quality Management System, including clinical risk management (ISO 14971), software requirements and design specifications, user‑need traceability, post‑market surveillance, and clinical evaluation reporting.

- Contribute to our ISO 27001 and ISO 27017 Information Security Management System wherever clinical content, clinical workflows, or clinical data are involved.

- Prepare and review clinical evidence for our TGA dossier and MDSAP audits, including responses to regulator queries.

- Represent Kraken Coding in clinical engagement with hospitals, professional colleges, the Australian Therapeutic Guidelines team, and international partners.

- Contribute clinical content to academic publications, conference presentations, and customer‑facing collateral.

What you bring

- Current AHPRA registration. We will consider applications from pharmacists, medical practitioners, and other AHPRA‑registered clinicians on a case‑by‑case basis. The successful candidate must hold a clinical degree from an accredited Australian institution or recognised equivalent.

- A logical, structured thinker. Our clinical pathways are essentially decision trees, so the ability to decompose a clinical scenario into clear conditional logic is core to the role. This is often harder said than done.

- At least 5 years of post‑registration clinical experience, with hands‑on exposure to inpatient, ambulatory, or community decision‑making.

- Demonstrated experience reviewing or developing clinical guidelines, decision‑support content, formularies, protocols, or comparable evidence‑based clinical material.

- Solid working knowledge of the Australian Therapeutic Guidelines and confidence navigating peer‑reviewed primary and secondary clinical literature.

- Experience leading or coordinating a small clinical or content team, including delegating, reviewing, and developing more junior clinicians.





- Excellent written English. You will be the editor of clinically‑facing content read by thousands of clinicians.

- Comfort working in a regulated medical‑device or healthcare‑software environment, with an understanding of how clinical decisions translate into software requirements.

- A collaborative, low‑ego approach to working with software engineers, data scientists, and external clinical partners.

Nice to have

- An interest or aptitude for code or structured logic, even at the level of confident Excel formula writing. R, Python, SQL, or any rule‑engine background is a real plus. Our content is built as decision trees, so a clinician with a coding streak (or a clinical‑software‑writer background) will find this role unusually rewarding.

- A postgraduate qualification in a clinical specialty, clinical informatics, health policy, public health, or a related discipline.

- Prior experience contributing to ISO 13485, ISO 14971, ISO 27001, or IEC 62304 documentation.

- Familiarity with version‑controlled documentation workflows (Git or similar). We will train you, but a willingness to learn is essential.

- Published clinical research or guideline‑development contributions.

- Experience working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, rural and remote care, or other priority populations.

What we offer

- Full‑time, permanent role.

- Salary range $130,000 – $160,000 plus superannuation, commensurate with experience.

- Flexible remote working arrangement.

- A genuinely meaningful role: your work will directly improve clinical care in dozens of Australian hospitals and help inform national guideline updates.

- Real autonomy and ownership of the clinical content domain. You will be the most senior clinician in the company and the trusted clinical voice in every product and regulatory conversation.

- Direct involvement in a Class 2A/2B medical device (registration ongoing), MDSAP‑certified, ISO 27001‑certified company at an inflection point. A rare opportunity to influence the clinical direction of a fast‑growing Australian medtech.

- Conference attendance and continuing professional development support.

Please apply with a CV and a brief cover letter describing one example of clinical content (a guideline, protocol, pathway, formulary entry, or similar) you have led the development or review of, and why the Clinical Lead role at Kraken Coding appeals to you.

We will review applications as they arrive, so early submission is encouraged.

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📌 Clinical Lead - Digital Decision Support Pathways (New South Wales)
🏢 Kraken Coding
📍 New South Wales