Manager, Safety and Quality

**Job no**: 891495
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide CBD
**Categories**: Administration, Business and Management, Allied and Scientific Health, Mental Health, Nursing/Midwifery, Project and Program Management
- **Department for Health and Wellbeing - Office of the Chief Psychiatrist - Safety and Quality**:

- **Multiclass - Full Time / Ongoing appointment**
- **$121,107 to $125,679 - ASO8**:

- **$114,314 to $124,449 - AHP4**:

- **$132,177 to $137,771 - RN/M4**

Overview:
**For ASO8 and AHP4**:
The Manager Safety and Quality is responsible for managing the development of a strategic Safety, Quality and Risk Management Framework and associated program of work to achieve SA Health, Mental Health Safety and Quality and Local Health Network strategic mental health priorities and the SA Health Care Plan. In this context the position takes strategic direction from the Chief Psychiatrist to promote the continuing improvement in the organisation and delivery of mental health services in SA. Particular focus areas include leading and managing the achievement of high standards and implementation of quality improvement activity within a quality framework, ensuring consumer rights, managing clinical risk, and coordinating serious incident processes to support integrated and safe consumer pathways.

The Manager Safety and Quality ensures the efficient and effective management of the team in providing and facilitating high-quality safe services for the community and the achievement and maintenance of best practice in the delivery of services.

The Manager Safety and Quality has strong working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to support the coordination, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of safety, quality and clinical risk management activities.

**For RN/M4**:
Provide support services to staff and services in areas including but not limited to staffing methodologies, recruitment and selection, human resource management, financial administration, resource management, accreditation and risk management processes and information systems management.

Employees in this role accept accountability for the outcomes of management practices, for addressing inconsistencies between practice and policy, for contributing to a safe and positive work culture in the interest of patient/client outcomes and for developing corporate team performance. Individual employees accept accountability for their specific span of control or allocated portfolio.

Employees in this role provide, oversee and advise on corporate management and systems services that are by complexity or breadth, demonstrably beyond the usual range; and initiate and lead projects of significant scope and complexity such as assessment and reporting of capital works developments or major systems changes.

Various practice models may be used to enact this role, including but not limited to:

- Providing management support to a specific services;
- Providing management support in a specific work portfolios;
- Coordination, leading and/or management of complex projects, programs and/or clinical research of significant scope that contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of strategic directions, policies, goals and objectives that support professional practice demonstratively beyond the usual range;
The Safety and Quality team
- Supports provision of high-quality safe services for the community.
- Has strong working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to support the coordination, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of safety, quality and clinical risk management activities.
- Takes strategic direction from the Chief Psychiatrist to promote the continuing improvement in the organisation and delivery of mental health services in SA. Particular focus areas include coordinating and supporting the achievement of high standards and implementing quality improvement activity within a quality framework, ensuring consumer rights, managing clinical risk, and coordinating serious incident processes to support integrated and safe consumer pathways.
- In consultation with stakeholders, is responsible for initiating and facilitating research and quality improvement activities to improve clinical practice and ensuring the effectiveness of the safety, quality and clinical risk management framework.
- Ensures the efficient and effective management of the team and contributes to the achievement and maintenance of best practice in the delivery of services.

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. **Job ref: 891495**

**Criminal History Screening Requirement**
- A National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving ‘_Unsupervised Contact with Vulnerable Groups’_ is required f