Quality Consultant

**Job no**: 861625
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern
**Categories**: Administration and Clerical
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Lyell McEwin Hospital - Elizabeth Vale**:

- **Salary**: $97,022 - $102,626 p.a.** **- ASO6 - Ongoing Full-Time**

**About Us**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.

With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.

Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

**Benefits of working at NALHN**:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

**About You**:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Quality Consultant looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.

In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.

**About the Role**:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Quality Consultant within the Clinical Governance Service.

As a Quality Consultant you will use very high levels of your technical, corporate, informatics, ‘patient safety and quality’ knowledge, expertise, and experience to provide strategic and operational leadership, governance, and direction across clinical and non-clinical services of the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) relating to:

- Achieve ‘quality and safety’ outcomes in accordance with National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHSS) Framework as per SA Health - Local Health Network, SAAS, State-wide Clinical Support Services and Mental Health Performance Frameworks.
- Develop, implement, and maintain quality systems to ensure ‘safety and quality’ strategic objectives & performance outcomes relating to ‘safety and quality’ are met including specific requirements under the SA Health, Accreditation Policy.
- Establishing mechanisms across NALHN to build the commitment of all locations and services to implement these safety and quality systems to meet national accreditation requirements ensuring appropriate balance between strategic, operational and the NSQHSS objectives.
- Enabling continuation of clinical services, organisation licensing & funding by achieving mandatory national accreditation requirements in accordance with SA Health, Accreditation Policy Directive.
- Achieve outcomes as determined through the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council (AHMAC) Australian Safety and Quality Goals.

Responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

- developing, implementing and maintaining improvement initiatives within NALHN with a focus on promoting improved health care outcomes and contributing to increasing Quality Improvement capability across the NALHN.
- support