Principal Clinical Lead, Patient Safety

7 days ago

Sydney, Australia NSW Health Full time

**Principal Clinical Lead, Patient Safety**
**Clinical Excellence Commission**

**Where you'll be working**

The Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC) is committed to providing leadership in safety and quality to improve health care for patients in NSW. The primary focus of the CEC is to promote and support improved clinical care, safety and quality across the NSW public health system, and to meet functions specified by the Minister for Health. The CEC Strategic Plan places priority on delivering high performing reliable systems and ensuring safety and quality in the provision of healthcare for ‘every patient, every time’ is consistent across NSW Health.

**What you'll be doing**

The Principal Clinical Lead, Patient Safety is an integral role in the CEC's patient safety functions. The position reports to the Associate Director, Patient Safety and manages the Patient Safety Clinical Leads program of work. The principal clinical lead is responsible for leading, driving and managing the efforts and performance of team members and provides leadership and managerial oversight of the Clinical Risk Action Groups (CRAG) Serious Incident Review (SIR) subcommittees. This includes the development of effective and impactful workplans and implementation, evaluation and refinement of state-wide quality and safety improvement strategies, priorities and clinical risk mitigation. The position requires strategic leadership across diverse speciality work areas including maternal and perinatal, mental health, alcohol and other drugs, prevention and response to violence and neglect, children and young people and clinical management.

The principal clinical lead plays a key role in the development, review and maintenance of NSW Health patient safety policies, guidelines and supporting documentation. This includes, but is not limited to incident management, lookback, open disclosure and clinical procedure policies.

The position supports, sustains, and develops capacity within NSW Health for ongoing patient safety and quality improvement though collaborative engagement with other members of the CEC patient safety directorate and wider CEC programs.

**What are we looking for?**
- Enthusiastic team members with a 'can-do' attitude and a drive for improving patient safety.
- Commitment to outstanding customer service.
- Innovative thinkers who strive for excellence.
- An effective and experienced patient safety leader who can provide ongoing support and direction to the Patient Safety Clinical Leads to meet the timely and accurate achievement of directorate objectives.
- An experienced networker who can build relationships and manage consultations, negotiations and partnership arrangements with a wide range of stakeholders often negotiating conflicting points of view.
- A skilled communicator who can prepare high-quality communication regarding patient safety and clinical risk including reports, briefs and presentations.

**What can we offer you?**
- Career Development
- A culture focused on core values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment
- One Allocated Day Off (ADO) in each 28 day roster cycle

**Employment Type**: Full Time - Permanent
**Position Classification**: Health Manager Level 5
**Remuneration**: $157,540.00 - $176,641.00 per annum, plus superannuation
**Hours Per Week**: 40 (38hrs Standard + 2hrs toward ADO)
**Requisition ID**: REQ413111
**Location**: 1 Reserve Road, St Leonards
- An up-to-date resume of no more than five (5) pages which clearly details your skills and experience as relevant to this role.
- A cover letter and completed online questionnaire addressing each of the below selection criteria.
- 2x referees will need to be supplied prior to an offer being made.

You may be asked to undertake further assessments as part of the recruitment process for this position, which may include, but is not limited to, psychometric assessment (e.g. personality and cognitive abilities assessments) and/or particular work tasks.

**Selection Criteria**
- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant healthcare discipline, and demonstrated experience, skills, and knowledge in the principles of patient safety and quality improvement in healthcare.
- Proven experience contributing to and promoting strategic patient safety initiatives including leading, developing and managing complex change at a large scale or state-wide level; provision of authoritative strategic advice; project management; and, implementation of continuous improvement initiatives.
- Extensive experience in system level clinical governance including incident management, safety systems and quality improvement.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills with demonstrated skills in stakeholder engagement and conflict resolution.
- Superior conceptual and analytical skills including experience in analysing and interpreting complex information from numerous sources, preparing and presenting analysis and reports rapidly and accurately

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