Quality and Assurance Officer

**Employment Type**: Temporary Full Time until August 2026
**Position Classification**:Health Manager Level 3
**Remuneration**:$127,150.00 - $144,444.00 per annum plus superannuation
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: REQ615986
**Applications Close**:Sunday, 9 November 2025

**Quality and Assurance Officer, Prince of Wales Hospital**

**Benefits**:

- A workplace culture with a foundation that promotes person centred care approaches and staff wellbeing
- Orientation and supported transition into your new role
- Targeted clinical stream education programs affiliated with university partners
- Development pathways that are aimed at career progression
- Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees) in addition to annual leave
- Salary Packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay Up to $9K for living expenses and $2.6K meal & entertainment & Novated Leasing
- Corporate health and fitness program, discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members
- Discounted Private Health Insurance

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**The Role**

The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.

The Quality & Assurance Officer will work as part of a dynamic team in the Patient Safety & Improvement Unit (PSIU) in delivering an effective service, supporting managers and staff across clinical and clinical support teams to ensure the principles of governance are at the heart of service provision. This will include facilitation, leadership and support to management teams, clinical and clinical support staff to promote best practice in quality improvement, risk management and clinical audit to achieve improved patient outcomes and compliance with internal and external agencies (e.g. Accreditation, Quality Systems Assessment).

The Quality & Assurance Officer will participate in clinical governance processes across the SESLHD including evidence collation to demonstrate compliance with National Safety & Quality Standards of Healthcare, state and national policy and service frameworks.

**Where You'll be Working**

Prince of Wales Hospital and Community Health Service is a Level 6 Tertiary Referral Hospital with an inpatient bed base of 370. Each year we care for more than 70,000 patients in our Emergency Department and have around 50,000 admissions to the inpatient units. POWH offers an outpatient service and rural outreach service and provides more than 900,000 occasions of non-admitted patient care each year, including innovative virtual models of care. We have transitioned the majority of inpatient units and wards to the Acute Services Building (ASB) including a state of the art Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit. POWH provides an exceptional staff experience and enhanced patient and family outcomes as a result of the provision of person-centred care.

Randwick Local council is renowned for our world-class beaches and supported by cafes and restaurants to tickle your taste-buds, Randwick’s fascinating coastline and atmosphere will have you in awe the minute you arrive. Offering a mix of historic buildings, impressive beaches and coastal walks coupled with boutique restaurants, transport links and a vibrant nightlife, you’ll never be short of things to do in this progressive community.

**Selection Criteria**

To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible.
- To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or extensive equivalent work experience in quality, safety and risk management
- Demonstrated high-level communication (verbal and written), analytical and problem-solving skills, including presentation skills and the ability to provide training and education on quality and assurance issues to clinical and clinical support staff
- Demonstrated understanding of risk management concepts in relation to enterprise risk management identification, and subsequent strategies and contribute to mitigation of identified patient safety risks
- A working knowledge of a broad range of quality management systems to review and monitor an organisations performance including but not limited to National Safety and Quality Healthcare Standards and National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA)
- High-level computer literacy with demonstrated experience in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook
- Current drivers license (with a willingness to travel in accordance with the demands of the position)

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