ROI - Medical Officer - Office of Chief Medical Officer

The Office of the Chief Medical Officer (OoCMO) responsibilities include:

- Protect and promote a healthy and resilient workforce through implementation of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy – Beyond 2024
- Support the health and wellbeing of our workforce by building systems and governance that are data-informed and evidence-based
- Undertake health threat analysis and operational health planning in support of domestic and global operations.

The Key objectives of the OoCMO are to:

- Provide evidence informed technical health advice to the OoCMO, SHIELD (direct health service delivery), AFP Commands and the organisation
- Enable AFP Commands to realise their full capability, by supporting the creation and maintenance of a healthy and resilient workforce
- Provide the organisation medical recommendations, based on health risk, to ensure potential AFP appointees, AFP Appointees and / or their dependants are fit to be employed or travel internationally for the purposes of AFP operational needs.
- The OoCMO sits parallel to the SHIELD program within the AFP’s People Command. The OoCMO and SHIELD work in partnership to provide organisational health services, clinical governance and health and wellbeing support to the AFP.

Position Purpose





Medical Officers are contracted to the AFP and operate under the technical authority of the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Deputy Chief Medical Officer (DCMO) to deliver high-quality clinical expertise, occupational health expertise, and strategic health leadership across OoCMO, SHIELD, and AFP Commands, both domestically and internationally.

Medical Officers assure that AFP appointees (sworn and unsworn members) can safely engage in all work-related activities with minimal risk to the organisation, to operational capability or to individual health and safety.

Medical Officers assess clinical information and provide health risk recommendations regarding fitness for work, fitness for participation in pre-employment and internal courses, and suitability for overseas deployment or travel. They provide clinical advice to the organisation and engage with managers and appointees about sickness, absence and rehabilitation or appointees both domestic and internationally.

Medical Officers will understand the AFP's inherent requirements, hazards and risks associated with the many roles and responsibilities of appointees. Medical Officers in AFP may assess injuries and function but do not provide clinical care to patients or prescribe. The AFP does not have a primary health care service or a deployable health capability.

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📌 ROI - Medical Officer - Office of Chief Medical Officer (Canberra)
🏢 Australian Federal Police
📍 Canberra