Manager, Clinical Governance Leadership

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time / Ongoing

Organisation: Safer Care Victoria

**Salary**: $134,593 - $180,115

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial

Reference: VG/DH/SCV/1819791

The Department of Health plays a critical role in the Victorian health system and is responsible for shaping it to meet the health needs of all Victorians. We’re focused on supporting Victorians to be as healthy as they can; whether through alerting them to seasonal risks like thunderstorm asthma, notifying them of contact with communicable diseases, safeguarding their drinking water, developing the best health, wellbeing and care facilities in the world, being at the forefront of mental health and wellbeing treatment or accelerating medical research. It’s all part of the way we partner with the community to help every individual lead a healthy life.

**About the role**:
The Manager, (Clinical Governance Leadership & Safety Culture) will be responsible for leading a team that designs and delivers clinical governance leadership and safety culture interventions that deliberately foster the mindsets, behaviours and practices that create high quality, safe and person-centred healthcare.

Reporting to the Director, Clinical Governance, Culture & Capability, the Manager will be responsible for:

- Developing new and managing existing relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Working collaboratively across Culture & Capability, Safer Care Victoria, Department of Health, health entities, and other relevant groups and organisations to meet program deliverables and to support strategic thinking.
- Managing a team of strategic thinkers with growth mindsets who will help Victorian healthcare leaders at all levels create the conditions for safe, reliable, and high-quality care.
- Being comfortable with ambiguity whilst able to identify strategies and ways forward to support our ‘clients'

The purpose of the Clinical Governance, Culture, & Capability Program is to support the Victorian health sector to develop the organisational conditions for safety and quality, thereby preventing harm and ensuring high-quality, reliable, and person-centred care. The organisational conditions include the leadership behaviours, workforce capability, policies, frameworks, and practices, change interventions, and ability to respond to risk and harm in the system.

**About us**:
At the Victorian Department of Health we want a future where Victorians are the healthiest people in the world. A Victoria where our children and people thrive, our workplaces are productive and safe, and our communities are more connected.

We see it as our job to support Victorians to stay healthy and safe. And to deliver a world-class healthcare system that ensures every single Victorian can access safe, quality care that leads to better health outcomes for all.

**How you'll make a difference**:
**Suitable applicants will be able to demonstrate**:
**Knowledge and Skills**

Executive Leadership Development and Coaching - Experience working with executive leadership to develop capability and adopt positive, constructive leadership behaviour. Confident and able to coach individuals at this level of their career to solve own challenges.

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.

Relationship Building - Establishes and maintains relationships with people at all levels; promotes harmony and consensus through diplomatic handling of disagreements; forges useful partnerships with people across business areas, functions, and organisations; builds trust through consistent actions, values, and communication; minimises surprises

Systems Thinking - Diagnoses trends, obstacles, and opportunities in the internal and external environment; understand the linkages between natural systems and communities to inform policy; conceptualises and defines the systems working within the organisation

Self - Management - Plans and prioritises work to ensure outcomes are achieved, resists the temptation to react immediately without taking time to think things through, uses strengths to contribute constructively and consciously manages the impact of own weaknesses, anticipates own reactions to situations and prepares accordingly

**Personal Qualities**

Integrity - Committed to the public interest; operates in a manner that is consistent with the organisation's code of conduct; inspires trust by treating all individuals fairly

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

Relationship Building - Establishes and maintains relationship