Clinical Improvement Coach

**Enterprise Agreement / Classification**

Individual Contracts - VARIOUS - XXXX

**Hours per Fortnight**

**Position Summary**

**Work in an environment that offers**:

- A supportive environment for career progression and development
- An opportunity to work with a leading regional health service
- An opportunity to further your career

**The Position**
- Position Title: Clinical Improvement Coach - Quality and Risk
- Classification: Dependent on qualifications
- Salary per hour (exc. super): Dependent on qualifications
- Hours per fortnight: Up to 80
- Employment Status: Part-time ongoing, part-time 2year fixed-term
- Other requirements: COVID-19 Vaccination

**Role Description**
- The Clinical Improvement Coach works collaboratively with managers and clinicians to facilitate translation of knowledge into practice and improvements in care. Through review of current practice, engagement with key stakeholders, and knowledge of organisational priorities, the Clinical Improvement Coach identifies and targets areas for improvement and builds capacity for improvement at the point of care. Current coaching priorities are in comprehensive care with a focus on falls prevention, and communicating for safety with a focus on handover and documentation, particularly in electronic patient records.

**Bendigo Health**
- Our 700 bed state of the art hospital was built in 2017. We are a leader in regional health care, combining outstanding services with a strong education, training and personal development culture. We have all of the latest technologies allowing our 5000 staff to deliver
- _Excellent Care to Every Person, Every Time._ Remuneration is in accordance with Victorian Public Health Enterprise Agreements and generous salary packaging arrangements are offered to all staff. Bendigo Health offer:

- Flexible Working Arrangements
- Salary Packaging
- Financial relocation support available for eligible applicants
- Reimbursements for the cost of obtaining any required pre-employment checks (Police Check, WWCC and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check)
- Staff health and wellbeing programs
- Access to recommended immunisations
- Smoke free environment
- If successful for a position at Bendigo Health you must provide evidence of your full immunisation record as part of the on boarding process.

**The Team**
- The Quality and Risk team at Bendigo Health has a primary focus of improving patient care and uses an integrative approach involving all areas of Bendigo Health to achieve and maintain continuous quality and risk management. The team is a resource to assist and support managers and clinicians in their patient safety and quality improvement initiatives.

**Bendigo Region**
- Bendigo is one of Victoria’s fastest growing regional cities making it a great city to live and work in. Bendigo provides services for the region’s population of over 300,000 and so the city offers excellent schools, shopping and cultural precincts, sporting facilities and various tertiary facilities. We can offer generous flexible working arrangements - giving you more time to enjoy the fantastic restaurants, beautiful parks, walking trails and wineries within our region.

**Diversity and Inclusion**
- Bendigo Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and social inclusion and encourage people from a diverse cultural background, people with disabilities and or Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people to apply.

**Selection Criteria**
- Essential : Tertiary qualification in nursing or allied health
- Essential : Experience in coaching and mentoring to develop critical thinking and clinical expertise of others
- Essential : Proficiency in quality improvement initiatives
- Essential : Understanding of improvement science and knowledge translation
- Essential : Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to engage with staff at all levels with a healthcare organisation
- Desirable : Proven ability to work in a team environment
- Desirable : Ability to introduce new concepts through innovation, influencing, negotiating and persuasion skills