
Quality Officer
3 days ago
**Description**
**Very Special Kids believes that all children and young people have the right to**
**quality of life, no matter how long or short their life may be.**
Position Title: Quality Officer
Location: Malvern
Department Corporate
Reporting To: General Manager Clinical Services
Main Purpose of To ensure that Very Special Kids effectively manages clinical risk,
Position: monitors and initiates improvements across the organisation, supports
organisational policy development, promotes excellence in paediatric
palliative care and consumer-centred care, and maintains accreditation
against recognized and best practice industry standards. Responsible for
the oversight of infection prevention and control and audit activities
across the hospice facility.
Number of 0
Direct Reports
Decision Making As per Very Special Kids’ Delegation of Authority
Authority
Key Internal:
- Relationships - General Manager Clinical Services
- Service Delivery managers and senior leaders
- Service delivery staff
- eQstats Super Users
- Management Team members
- External:
- Accreditation provider (currently Australian Council on Healthcare
- Standards)
- HICMR
- Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare
- Magentus (eQstats systems support)
Qualifications/ Education Training and Work Experience
Key Selection
Criteria
Essential
- Degree qualifications in health, preferably nursing or allied health.
- Prior experience in a similar role in a community or healthcare
organisation.
- Demonstrated understanding and experience in:
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- Healthcare quality management systems, accreditation and
continuous quality improvement activities.
- Assessment, analysis and response to clinical risk.
- Infection prevention and control.
- Review of clinical incidents.
- Developing and writing policy and procedures within a health
care setting.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively, build strong relationships and
achieve multiple stakeholder alignment.
- Advanced proficiency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Desirable
- Post-graduate qualifications in quality or risk management, quality
systems auditing or infection prevention and control.
- Project management experience.
Personal Attributes
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and
verbal, and a proven track record in engaging with a range of
stakeholders.
- Ability to work well under pressure and be flexible to changing
priorities and environment.
- Analytical thinker.
- Outcome-oriented with the ability to take the initiative, effectively
prioritise work and meet deadlines.
- Strong values connection with the Very Special Kids values and
genuine empathetic regard for people.
Guiding Principles
All employees are required to demonstrate the Very Special Kids Guiding
Principles:
- We offer compassionate, individualised care for families across their
entire journey
- Our approach is forward thinking, positive and authentic
- We collaborate to deliver the best support for families
- We are purpose driven and act with integrity, respect and kindness
**Name of Responsibility Key Performance Indicators**
Paediatric palliative care service excellence - Initiate and/or engage in project
teams and working groups that
support excellence in paediatric
palliative care service delivery,
measurement and evaluation. This
may include, but is not limited to:
- Models of care - medical,
integrated service delivery,
Hospice admissions
- Evaluation of service delivery
outcomes
- Informed consent processes
- Rights of the child
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Clinical risk and compliance management - The eQstats operational risk register
processes is monitored for trends, and these
are reflected in the organisational
risk registers.
- Assigned Hospice compliance
obligations in Comply Online**(Very
Special Kids’ online legislative
compliance monitoring system)**are
managed according to specified
timeframes.
Development, review and maintenance of - Clinical policies and procedures are
policies and procedures developed to comply with legislation
and industry standards.
- Service delivery teams are supported
to review clinical policies and
procedures according to schedule.
- Development of policies and
procedures is supported across the
organisation.
Accreditation process and compliance with - Very Special Kids maintains:
industry standards o Compliance with Child Safe
Standards.
- Accreditation against National
Safety and Quality Health
Service Standards.
- Action plans and gap analyses
associated with the above are
progressed/actioned.
Clinical incident reporting, review and - Ensures clinical incidents are
response processes reviewed within optimal timeframes
by responsible manager, escalated
where necessary and corrective
actions are initiated when required
Reporting on clinical and quality key - Prepare and provide reports on
performance indicators to board and incidents, audits and quality
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