Medical Lead, Safety and Quality

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 882857
**Location**: 5006 - NORTH ADELAIDE
**Job status**: Short Term Contract
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Women's and Children's Health Network, **Safety & Quality Unit**, North Adelaide (5006)**:

- **Salary**
- **Classification - MD2 - Consultant / Senior Consultant - $227,591 to $299,884**
- **Part Time (0.4 FTE) -** Term Contract**

**About the Opportunity**

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the **Safety and Quality **team as a** Medical Lead, Safety and Quality, **where you will be responsible for:

- Assisting with ensuring that the culture, clinical systems, and practices align with and facilitate the delivery of excellent, evidence-based care.
- Contributing to the Network's Safety and Quality performance and managing patient safety systems alongside other members of the Safety and Quality (SQ) team, including participating in quality management initiatives.
- Drawing on clinical competencies and working closely with the Executive Director of Medical Services and other Executive Team members to optimize clinical governance, quality, and safety across the Network.
- Collaborating with a range of stakeholders across the WCHN to promote a safe, high-quality, continuous improvement culture, enhancing the Network's reputation for safety and quality excellence.
- Working strategically and collaboratively with senior leadership to understand their business and develop a detailed clinical approach addressing the needs of consumers, stakeholders, and communities for various safety and quality initiatives and processes.

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) or equivalent.
- Appropriate Specialist Qualifications and registrable with the Medical Board of Australia as a Medical Practitioner with Specialist registration; or another qualification as defined in the SA Medical Officers Award.
- Demonstrated strong leadership skills and an ability to motivate and inspire others to work together as a team to achieve objectives.
- Demonstrated high level interpersonal and leadership skills that foster credibility, trust and co-operation at senior levels.
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically, develop innovative solutions, and negotiate successful outcomes in a resourceful manner
- Demonstrated knowledge of public health system operations, particularly as they related to acute and primary health care services across the continuum of care.

**What WCHN Can Offer You**
- Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year.
- Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
- Free Public Transport for SA Health Metropolitan Hospital Workers.
- Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
- Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program

You may be eligible for financial support if you are considering relocating from interstate or overseas. Please speak to the enquiries person of the role on offer to find out more.

**About Us**

The **Women's & Children's Health Network** is the state's leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We offer:

- specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
- state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
- community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
- specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia's women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.

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**Special Conditions**

To find out more about this role, including key selection criteria, all special conditions and minimum requirements, please click on the attached role description and also review our document checklists below.

Immunisation Requirements Checklist

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**Application Instructions*