Manager- Maternity and Newborn Improvement

2 months ago


Melbourne City Centre, Australia Department of Health Full time

The Manager is a key leader of Safer Care Victoria's results-oriented improvement work. You lead a team of improvement specialists in Safer Care Victoria's Improvement Branch to plan and deliver large-scale health improvement initiatives, in partnership with people with lived-experience, clinical and practice expertise. Your experience in the model for improvement and co-design is utilised to support the teaching and coaching of others to make impactful change in their services.
You are results-oriented, with a passion for supporting others to learn and achieve improvements to outcomes, to the benefit of people receiving care in Victoria.

**Are you**:

- able to shape, communicate and implement large scale improvement initiatives to deliver system-level outcomes?
- able to demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and build productive relationships?
- comfortable engaging with senior clinical and health sector executives on improvement opportunities?
- experienced at building capability at all levels of an organisation to create an environment in which new ideas and creative solutions to problems in healthcare delivery can be implemented and sustained?

Purpose
Working as a senior leader of the 100,000 Lives Program, the role has responsibility for management and oversight of SCV improvement initiatives, analysis of project-, entity
- and system-level performance challenges and development of solutions. Managing the Maternity and Newborn Improvement team of the 100,000 Lives program, this position will provide oversight for a projects focused on improving health outcomes by reducing preventable harm and unnecessary interventions for those interacting with the maternal and newborn areas of the health care system.
The role will lead a team of improvement specialists, and partner with people with lived experience and clinical/practice expertise to implement large-scale health improvement initiatives. The initiatives will utilise the model for improvement and evidence-based change methodologies to improve the quality of treatment, care and support in Victoria. Reporting to the Director of the 100,000 Lives Program, you will be responsible for managing the team's work and developing their capability. The role will also work closely with other teams in Safer Care Victoria and engage senior clinical, practice, health sector and lived-experience executives.
Knowledge and skills
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- Leadership: builds team commitment by demonstrating personal conviction; translates organisational strategy into meaningful long-term plans and objectives for own area of responsibility; motivates others to deliver against goals.
- People management: aligns team with the organisational values and goals through effective people management and modelling, maximises effectiveness by selecting, developing, managing and motivating a high performing team, clearly defines role expectations, monitors performance, provides timely and constructive feedback and facilitates employee development, ensures staff are effectively deployed through effective workforce planning practices.
- Strategic planning: thinks at the big picture level, entertains wide-ranging possibilities in developing a vision for the future, works across a number of time frames, translates strategic direction into day-to-day activities.
- Self-management: invites feedback on own behaviour and impact; uses new knowledge or information about self to build a broader understanding of own behaviour and the impact it has on others; understands strong emotional reactions and seeks ways to more effectively manage them.

Personal qualities
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- Creativity and innovation: generates new ideas, draws on a range of information sources to identify new ways of doing things, actively influences events and promotes ideas, translates creative ideas into workplace improvements, reflects on experience and is open to new ways to improve practice.
- Decisiveness: takes rational and sound decisions based on a consideration of the facts and alternatives; makes tough decisions, sometimes with incomplete information; evaluates rational and emotional elements of situations; makes quick decisions where required; commits to a definite course of action.
- Developing others: actively seeks to improve others' skills and talents by providing constructive feedback, coaching and training opportunities; empowers others by investing them with the authority and latitude to accomplish tasks; appropriately delegates responsibilities to further the development of others.
- Teamwork: cooperates and works well with others in pursuit of team goals, collaborates and shares information, shows consideration, concern and respect for others feelings and ideas, accommodates and works well with the different working styles of others, encourages resolution of conflict within the group.

**Qualifications**:

- A tertiary qualification in fields related to health administration, medicine, nursing, midwifery, paramedic, pharmacist or all



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