Quality Coordinator

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: The Royal Women's Hospital

**Salary**: Salary not specified

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Reference: 24797

Quality Coordinator at The Women's

**Ongoing Position**
**Part time 24 hours - 3 days per week**

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

The Women’s Quality and Safety Unit provides an expert support and advisory service to the staff and services of the Women’s on quality improvement, risk management and patient experience.

We are seeking an enthusiastic person with a passion to continuously improve the quality and safety of care to women and babies. Working as part of a team, you will engage with hospital staff in patient safety and quality improvement initiatives.

Position Purpose:

- To promote, facilitate and build capability on quality, risk management and improvement within the clinical service areas based on the agreed organisational frameworks and tools.
- To support the provision of patient focussed risk and improvement services and advice to the assigned clinical service/s.
- To support the creation of exceptional experiences across the organisation
- To develop and review effective incident reporting for all areas.
- To support the implementation of the National Safety and Quality in Healthcare Standards
- To coordinate the development and review of policy, guideline and procedures for clinical service areas.

**About you**

To be successful in this role you will:

- Have a passion for patient safety and quality improvement
- Have experience of the National Safety and Quality in Healthcare Standards
- Have a strong understanding of a systems approach to quality, risk and continuous improvement.
- Have well developed interpersonal skills
- Have a professional and consumer focused approach to health care.

We are looking for a person with a passion for good clinical care, a collaborative style, consumer focus and an understanding of project management.

**Our offering**

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the**_ exceptional _**in your everyday.

We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.

**Ready to make the move?**

**COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement***

Please be aware that in line with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all workers at the Women's regardless of role, will be required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

**Influenza Vaccination Requirement**

In line with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, some health care workers are now required to have their flu vaccination to work in health care. Evidence of vaccination is required.

As this role fits into category A or B of the departments risk ratings, applicants will be required to have been vaccinated against influenza. Evidence of vaccination is required.

All applicants will be required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status.