Improvement Lead, Medication Safety

4 weeks ago

St Leonards, Australia Clinical Excellence Commission Division Full time

**Improvement Lead, Medication 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**

This position manages the development, implementation, evaluation and refinement of activities and initiatives to improve the safety and quality of medication use within NSW health services. This position supports the Medication Safety unit in overseeing delivery on Medication Safety program priorities, assists with other ancillary projects and/or emerging medication safety issues and undertakes associated administrative tasks. This position is also responsible for providing expert input into CEC initiatives and any issues referred to the CEC for comment when required.

**What are we looking for?**
- Ability to support the development, implementation and evaluation of the Medication Safety program, including reviewing evidence, providing expert input and developing resources and reports based on new and emerging evidence to lead and manage program initiatives.
- Effectively balance competing demands.
- Establish collaborative and influential relationships with stakeholders, customers and colleagues to ensure easy and effective achievement of medication safety goals.

**What can we offer you?**
- Career Development
- A culture focused on core values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment
- One Allocated Day Off (ADO) per month

**Employment Type**: Temporary Full Time up to 30 June 2024
**Position Classification**: Health Manager Level 3
**Remuneration**: $119,348.00 $136,057.00 per annum, plus superannuation
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: REQ390894
**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.

**Selection Criteria**
- Extensive knowledge of medicines use processes within NSW public hospitals and Quality Use of Medicines principles; and extensive experience, skills and knowledge in medication safety.
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of the principles, structures and processes of quality and safety management.
- Demonstrated experience in leading large scale healthcare quality improvement initiatives fostering a systematic collaborative approach to improving patient outcomes, including the management of multiple and concurrent initiatives with conflicting milestones and deadlines.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills with demonstrated experience developing effective professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders including liaising with and influencing stakeholders to adopt and implement continuous improvement initiatives.

**Need more information?**

**Our Commitment to Diversity**

For more information, visit our Aboriginal Workforce Page or contact our Access and Inclusion Team.

To be eligible for employment in the role you must be one of the following. You can only be offered employment in this role for the duration that your current visa allows you to work in Australia, and you can only be offered ongoing employment if you have a permanent visa that allows you to work in Australia:

- an Australian Citizen, or
- a permanent resident of Australia, or
- a New Zealand citizen with a current New Zealand Passport, or
- a citizen of another country with an appropriate visa that allows you to work in Australia

**COVID-19 Vaccination Compliancy**

All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). Additionally, Category A workers are required to receive a booster dose three months after completing the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations. New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health, or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate (IM011 immunisation medical exemption form) certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.

Acceptable proof of vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate. Booster doses are highly recommended for all health care workers who have completed the primary course

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