Bariatric Surgery Registry Executive Officer

**Alfred Health**

Alfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services.
- **Fixed term: 12 months (parental leave replacement)**:

- **Full-time: 76 or 80 (with ADO) hours per fortnight**:

- **Salary range: $116,000-128,000 f/t equivalent (dependent on experience)**:

- ** School of Translational Medicine**:

- **Staff benefits**

**The Department**

The **Bariatric Surgery Registry** is an established bi-national clinical quality registry that monitors the safety and efficacy of bariatric surgery across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Since beginning in 2012, the Registry has enrolled over 170,000 people who have had a bariatric procedure and has over 200 surgeons and over 150 hospitals contributing data. The Registry’s team is based in Monash University’s School of Translational Medicine (STM) at the Alfred Hospital campus.

**The Role**

The BSR Executive Officer is responsible for the integrity and quality of the BSR and oversees research activities. The Executive Officer also provides strategic and operational advice to the Head of School, Clinical Director and the Steering Committee in relation to the full range of resource matters and is a key member of the School’s leadership team.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Ensure policy and procedures are compliant with good registry practice, relevant legislation and identifies opportunities for improvement and implements necessary changes
- Oversees regular audits of data quality and seeks ways to improve processes
- Regularly reviews the core outputs of the registry and identifies performance that might be considered outlying and manages escalations according to registry policy
- Tracks the expenditure of the BSR against budget and reports on finance to the Director, Steering Committee and Commonwealth
- Makes decisions on expenditure required for the day-to-day running of the BSR
- Maintains engagement with key stakeholders including (but not limited to) the Commonwealth, state jurisdictions, funders, ANZMOSS and IFSO
- Manages the production of the outward facing reporting of the Registry (including but not limited to progress reports and annual reports,) by working with the Director to oversee the design and delivery of these reports
- Designs the quality related reporting of the Registry including (but not limited to), individual surgeon reports, hospital reports and ad-hoc reporting that is required by working with the Operations Manager to ensure they are delivered
- Works with the Director to develop a broad funding base including (but not limited to) governments, device manufacturers, private insurers and Medical Defence Organisations (MDOs). This will include contract and deliverables management and regular meeting with key stakeholders
- Works with the Director to develop a funding stream for research including (but not limited to) competitive grants, philanthropic organisations, MDOs and industry. This will include contract and deliverables management and regular meeting with key stakeholders
- Keeps abreast of developments, activities and protocols in area of registry science through liaison with other registry staff in the Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences. Remains abreast of relevant literature and attends relevant meetings and seminars.
- Liaises with the Clinical Lead NZ to ensure consistent work practices across both countries.
- Provides effective day to day staff supervision with the goal of maintaining a happy and productive workplace

**Qualifications/Experience**
- The appointee will have:

- Research higher degree or equivalent
- extensive project management experience and proven management expertise
- an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training
- Demonstrated extensive and broad experience in leading, motivating and developing a team of professionals to deliver service excellence and continuous improvement
- Outstanding research, analytical and consulting skills, including the ability to devise innovative solutions to complex issues
- Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to provide authoritative advice and to manage relationships, influence and negotiate at senior levels within and outside the University
- Superior planning and organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise and delegate tasks to achieve a substantial agenda within agreed timeframes and to required standards
- Proven, significant ability to develop and implement policy
- Experience working as part of a leadership team, contributing to setting strategic direction, undertaking strategic planning, providing advice and implementing initiatives to deliver on objectives
- Experience in and understanding of the healthcare industry, Human Research Ethics Committees and the higher education sec