Clinical Practice Project Officer

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time, Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Nursing

Reference: 59192

**Working in healthcare has never been more important or meaningful.**

Monash Health is Victoria's largest public health service, employing over 22,000 people across various specialities.

**Our Journey**:
The Monash Health Nursing and Midwifery Education Strategy (NaMES) department develops and delivers educational opportunities, and strategic workforce improvements and initiatives to ensure a skilled Nursing and Midwifery workforce for the future. The NaMES department promotes life-long learning and development of Nursing and Midwifery skills and knowledge, fosters Nursing and Midwifery innovation and research, and ensures a workplace that is supporting, challenging, and delivering the best evidence based person-centred Nursing and Midwifery care.

**A Day in the Life**:
The Clinical Practice Project Officer role requires a highly skilled clinician with a passion for the delivery of high-quality safe patient care who will support the development of innovative strategies to advance clinical practice across the health service. Some of your specific accountabilities will include:

- Contributing to the development and implementation of the nursing and midwifery clinical practice strategy
- the successful implementation of creative solutions to complex systemic and organisational requirements
- Collaborating with multiple health professions and a commitment to excellence in the delivery of high-quality safe patient care
- Leveraging your professional leadership skills to support the development and evaluate the effectiveness of our clinical improvement strategies
- Motivating individuals and groups to find solutions and achieve commonly held goals
- A focus on continuous improvement
- This role will be based at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton; however, will involve working across all Monash Health sites.

**What you bring**

Communication skills and teamwork are extremely important in this role as you will be working in a diverse team. You show a highly developed emotional intelligence within the care and support you provide. Understanding the importance of patient centred care, you have a genuine interest in working and interacting with our diverse teams to deliver high quality, safe patient centred-care.

Your critical thinking, willingness to learn and ability to work cohesively and share knowledge within a team will see you excel in this role whilst we provide you with guidance, support and training to learn the rhythm of the Clinical Practice Team’s workflows.

**You will also demonstrate**:

- Registered with Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia via AHPRA
- Relevant post graduate qualifications or working towards the same
- Recent and relevant experience demonstrating the appropriate competencies and skills
- Victorian Working with Children’s Check Employee status
- Current and satisfactory Police Check (must also comply with Aged Care Act 1997 Accountability Amendment Principles 2012 if working in Aged Care settings) Grade 4B Position Description

**In return**

Ours is a connected team with strong shared values and an unwavering commitment to excellence. Ours is also a highly skilled, collaborative and welcoming team where the only limit in your career is you.

There is no better time to join us and here’s just a few reasons why:

- Access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your clinical skills and knowledge base
- Avenues to further develop your leadership and project management skills
- Mentorship and career guidance
- Support to attend relevant forums and conferences
- A supportive learning environment, should you wish to undertake postgraduate studies

All our full-time employees have the opportunity to accrue a day off every four weeks. In addition, you will have access to benefits including salary packaging to increase your take-home pay, access to on site staff car parking and gym, uniform and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

**Monash Health is a great place to work so come join The Monash Health Nursing and Midwifery Education Strategy (NaMES) department.**

**How to Apply**

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.

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.

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