Quality & Compliance Officer

**Title**:Quality & Compliance Officer**:

- Date: 8 Oct 2024- Location: Bicton- Business Unit: St Jude's Aged Care

**Carinya of Bicton is a leading residential aged care facility that aims to provide only the highest quality of services to those seeking quality care and homely comforts. Carinya of Bicton, a part of the St Jude's Health Care Group, has more than four decades of experience operating within residential aged care, and we have come to know exactly what amenities and services are most valued by our residents and their families. Carinya of Bicton is one of the most highly regarded aged care facilities South of the Perth river.**

**Role Summary**:
The Quality & Compliance Officer supports the Carinya of Bicton and Carinya on Bristol management to ensure the facility complies with relevant regulatory requirements, as well as assisting a broad range of functions for the facility. The role plays a crucial part in ensuring that the facility remains organised and runs effectively, and works closely with the management of the facility to accomplish this. The role also has responsibilities around maintaining a training calendar for staff at the facility and organising the relevant forms and payroll processes for this.

**Responsibilities and Duties**:

- Maintaining a monthly audit calendar and conducting internal audits.
- Schedule meetings focused on resident care, quality reviews and continuous improvement.
- Lead the monthly quality meetings to ensure relevant compliance targets are being met.
- Completing weekly hazard inspections and reports.
- Identify trends, serious incidents and complaints and immediately report to the Senior Quality & Compliance Officer and Division Managers
- Support sites in identifying data trends that may require remedial actions through continuous improvement

**This role is being hired on a permanent full-time basis and is based out of our Carinya facilities.**

**Skills, Attributes and Experience**:
**Key selection criteria includes**:

- Previous experience working within the aged care sector.
- High level of interpersonal and communication skills.