Clinical Practice Project Officer

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Nursing

Reference: 54652

**Working in healthcare has never been more important or meaningful.**

Monash Health is Victoria's largest public health service, employing over 22,000 people across various specialities.

**Our Journey**:
The Monash Health Nursing and Midwifery Education Strategy (NaMES) department develops and delivers educational opportunities, and strategic workforce improvements and initiatives to ensure a skilled Nursing and Midwifery workforce for the future. The NaMES department promotes life-long learning and development of Nursing and Midwifery skills and knowledge, fosters Nursing and Midwifery innovation and research, and ensures a workplace that is supporting, challenging, and delivering the best evidence based person-centred Nursing and Midwifery care.

**A Day in the Life**:
The Clinical Practice Project Officer role requires a highly skilled clinician with a passion for the delivery of high-quality safe patient care who will support the development of innovative strategies to advance clinical practice across the health service. Some of your specific accountabilities will include:

- Contributing to the development and implementation of the nursing and midwifery clinical practice strategy
- the successful implementation of creative solutions to complex systemic and organisational requirements
- Collaborating with multiple health professions and a commitment to excellence in the delivery of high-quality safe patient care
- Leveraging your professional leadership skills to support the development and evaluate the effectiveness of our clinical improvement strategies
- Motivating individuals and groups to find solutions and achieve commonly held goals
- A focus on continuous improvement
- This role will be based at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton; however, will involve working across all Monash Health sites.

**What you bring**

Communication skills and teamwork are extremely important in this role as you will be working in a diverse team. You show a highly developed emotional intelligence within the care and support you provide. Understanding the importance of patient centred care, you have a genuine interest in working and interacting with our diverse teams to deliver high quality, safe patient centred-care.

Your critical thinking, willingness to learn and ability to work cohesively and share knowledge within a team will see you excel in this role whilst we provide you with guidance, support and training to learn the rhythm of the Clinical Practice Team’s workflows.

**You will also demonstrate**:

- Registered with Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia via AHPRA
- Relevant post graduate qualifications or working towards the same
- Recent and relevant experience demonstrating the appropriate competencies and skills
- Victorian Working with Children’s Check Employee status
- Current and satisfactory Police Check (must also comply with Aged Care Act 1997 Accountability Amendment Principles 2012 if working in Aged Care settings) Grade 4B Position Description

**In return**

Ours is a connected team with strong shared values and an unwavering commitment to excellence. Ours is also a highly skilled, collaborative and welcoming team where the only limit in your career is you.

There is no better time to join us and here’s just a few reasons why:

Access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your clinical skills and knowledge base
- Avenues to further develop your leadership and project management skills
- Mentorship and career guidance
- Support to attend relevant forums and conferences
- A supportive learning environment, should you wish to undertake postgraduate studies

All our full-time employees have the opportunity to accrue a day off every four weeks. In addition, you will have access to benefits including salary packaging to increase your take-home pay, access to on site staff car parking and gym, uniform and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

**Monash Health is a great place to work so come join The Monash Health Nursing and Midwifery Education Strategy (NaMES) department.**

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