Quality, Safety

Reference Number
- 55072
- Employment Type
- Full Time Ongoing
- Entity
- Monash Health
- Department
- Quality and Safety Unit
- Location
- Monash Medical Centre Clayton
- Position Summary
- Full time, permanent position
- Flexible working arrangements available
- Leverage your innovation expertise
- Genuine opportunity to advance the quality of patient care
- Permanent, full-time role, Monday - Friday

**About Monash Health**

Monash Health provides healthcare for the entire lifespan from pre-birth to palliative care and all stages in between; across seven public hospitals, 21 community health sites and five aged care facilities. In addition, our tertiary education partnerships and university affiliated international and translational research hub enable us to turn scientific discoveries into clinical practice to benefit both local and international patients.

**Our Quality & Safety Unit**

Under the leadership of the Executive Director Quality, Safety and Risk and working closely with key stakeholders, our Quality & Safety Unit supports our program leaders to embed strong standardised clinical governance processes.

We now have a great opportunity for an experienced clinician with a flair for effective change management, to join our team in a meaningful leadership role. This role will be appointed on a permanent, full-time basis.

**About the role**
- Reporting to the Director Quality & Safety and working closely with the division leadership team, our team of Quality Managers provide coordinated support to facilitate strong, standardised clinical governance processes across Monash Health’s clinical programs. This role has specific responsibility to support the Monash Medicine, Monash Medical Centre and Moorabbin Hospital Division. Your key responsibilities will include:
- providing effective leadership in quality, safety and innovation;
- working closely with senior clinical staff to ensure the identification of risks; embedding of continuous improvement and the delivery of standardised care; and
- contributing to service planning activities.

This role has no direct reports and requires a person with effective communication, influencing and negotiation skills.

**About you**

You are a team player, experienced in embedding National Safety and Quality Healthcare Standards and in identifying and implementing improvement initiatives. You can demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively with others, including those over whom you have no direct line authority, to implement changes to clinical practice where these are warranted. Your clinical background and exceptional interpersonal and engagement skills enable you to interact effectively with people at all levels of the organisation.

**You have**
- a Bachelor degree in a health discipline
- a clinical background and a demonstrated strong understanding of clinical governance;
- proven experience in:

- quality and risk management within a healthcare setting;
- implementing clinical quality improvements; and
- implementing the National Safety and Quality Healthcare Standards
- a positive attitude in facilitating change and adopting new concepts supported by demonstrated change management capabilities;
- an understanding of a just culture; and
- excellent report writing skills.

A current Victorian Driver’s Licence and access to a reliable vehicle are mandatory requirements for this role.

Experience in both project management and in incident reviews, particularly using root cause analysis methodology, will be advantageous. A higher qualification in health, quality or business management or progress towards same will be highly regarded.

**In return**

As a full-time employee, you’ll have the opportunity to accrue a day off every four weeks. In addition, you’ll have access to benefits including mentorship and career guidance, an extensive suite of in-house learning portals to further expand your clinical skills and knowledge base, salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay, onsite subsidised staff car parking and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

**How to apply**

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same); and
- proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and are required to provide acceptable evidence