Quality and Safety Associate

2 weeks ago

South Brisbane, Australia Mater Group Full time

**Job no**: 501334
**Work type**: Fixed Term
**Location**: South Brisbane
**Categories**: Clinical Nursing/Midwifery

**About the role**

**Mater Hospital Brisbane** is currently looking for a permanent **Quality and Safety Associate** based at our South Brisbane campus, whilst full-time position is preferred consideration will be given to part-time.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Provide leadership and support to Hospital/Service Quality and Safety Manager and clinical department managers to implement quality and risk management systems and improve quality and safety outcomes;
- Provide leadership and support to Hospital/Service Quality and Safety Manager and department managers in incident and complaint investigation and coordinate actions to prevent recurrence;
- Support/ facilitate the implementation of innovation and systems improvement that eliminate/reduce patient harm;
- Work collaboratively with other clinicians to facilitate process improvement strategies that support patient safety and the achievement of quality and safety goals;
- Collect and analyse patient safety and clinical outcome data to evidence the effectiveness of the quality and safety system;
- Evaluate quality and safety outcome data to identify opportunities for continual improvement and make recommendation to relevant hospital committees;
- Support the Hospital/Service Quality and Safety Manager to improve the effectiveness of the quality system and monitor compliance with policies, the implementation of corrective and preventive actions and survey recommendations.;
- Work in collaboration with the Hospital/Service Quality and Safety Manager and Hospital Executive to coordinate the implementation of recommendations arising from root cause analysis or other system or case review;
- Monitor literature and professional organisations for new or revised best practice related to quality and safety;
- Continuously evaluate and improve the hospital’s quality and safety program based on internal needs and external requirements and standards;
- Provide education / training related to quality and safety, incident investigation and management and the use of Incident reporting tools as required

**About you**

Ideally, you will also have at least 3 years frontline clinical experience and intermediate Microsoft Office skills in Word and EXCEL especially. Tertiary qualification in a relevant clinical discipline an advantage.
- Demonstrated experience in developing working relationships to achieved identified outcomes and an ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to provide empathetic communication in difficult situations
- Demonstrated knowledge of and experience in health service delivery with appropriate clinical knowledge, experience and skills is essential including a basic understanding of care processes provided in multiple areas of the hospital
- Demonstrated experience or a willingness to develop analytical skills to trend and interpret data and provide reports on data information used for projects, evaluation and process improvement activities

For further information or a confidential conversation please contact Christine Thompson
- Quality and Safety Manager on 3163 6121 or 0466 148 956.

**Advertised**: 30 Sep 2024 E. Australia Standard Time
**Applications close**: 21 Oct 2024 E. Australia Standard Time

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