Quality and Safety Manager

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: Royal Women's Hospital

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial, Nursing

Reference: 24601

**Quality and Safety Manager - Public Fertility Services, Reproductive Services Unit**
- Ongoing Position
- Part-time: 22.8 hours per week

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

Join us to create Victoria’s first fully Public Fertility Service (PFS) and help thousands of Victorian people to fulfill their dream of becoming parents. The new PFS offers high-quality, safe, and value-based fertility services for all eligible Victorians including people who are single, Aboriginal, LGBTIQ+, living with a disability, from culturally and linguistically diverse communities, from regional and rural communities and/or living on low incomes.

Building on decades of leadership in fertility care the PFS offers a full range of integrated services including:

- Fertility assessment and management, including consultations, fertility investigations, ovulation monitoring/tracking and ovulation induction
- Assisted reproductive treatments, as well as counselling, information and support
- A publicly run fertility preservation program so people with cancer or other health issues can have their tissue stored and retrieved for future us

**Your contribution**

As our Quality and Safety Manager (Fertility Services) you will define, develop, manage and report on the Fertility Services Quality Management System to meet Reproductive Technology Accreditation Committee (RTAC) Code of Practice.???? Through your thorough understanding of RTAC's Codeand National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) standards you will lead the Fertility Services to exemplary standards of quality and safety, that comply with all statutory requirements. You will extend this expert guidance to the fertility service satellite sites.

Your duties will include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Implement the Fertility Services Quality Management System including incident management guidelines, systems, business rules, and timeframes.
- Ensure all clinical incidents area are investigated and reported according to the Women’s incident management guidelines, within required timelines, including reporting serious incidents to RTAC and VARTA as required.
- Develop improvement plans in response to identified risks and along with department managers, facilitate their implementation

**About you**

To be successful within this role you will need to have:

- Current registration with AHPRA as a Division 1 Registered Nurse, or other relevant clinical experience
- Fertility nursing experience
- Thorough understanding of the RTAC Code of Practice
- Familiarity with the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards
- Experience with the Victorian Healthcare Incident Management System (VHIMS)
- Experience in a systems approach to quality, safety, continuous improvement and risk management

**Our offering**

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the**_ exceptional _**in your everyday.

We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.

**Ready to make the move?**

**COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement***

Please be aware that in line with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all workers at the Women's regardless of role, will be required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

**Influenza Vaccination Requirement**

In line with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, some health care workers are now required to have their flu vaccination to work in health care. Evidence of vaccination is required.

As this role fits into category A or B of the departments risk ratings, applicants will be required to have been vaccinated against influenza. Evidence of vaccination is required.

All applicants will be required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status.