Safety and Quality Lead

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**Position Title**: S**afety and Quality Lead**
**Employment Type: Permanent, Full-Time**
**Hours per week**:38**
**Position Grade**:Health Services Manager Level 3**
**Salary**:**$127,150.00-$144,444.00** base salary per annum**
**Enterprise Agreement: The** Named NSW (Non-Declared) Affiliated Health Organisations’ Health Employees Agreement 2019**
**Department Name**:Patient Safety and Quality unit**

**About us**:
St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney is a leading not-for-profit organisation providing health services to our community. Guided by our values of compassion, excellence, integrity and justice, we promote a culture of diversity and inclusion and empower our people to learn, grow and innovate.

**Benefits of working at St Vincent’s include**:

- Generous salary packaging and Fitness Passport for eligible staff
- Opportunity to access a wide of range of clinical and non-clinical education programs
- Supported post graduate opportunities within applicable fields
- Career development opportunities across the St Vincent’s Health Australia Network
- Employee Assistance Program
- Work/Life balance

**About the role**:
We have an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic team leading our approach to the provision of quality care to clients of the St Vincents Health Network Sydney.

The Safety and Quality lead
- will support one or more Clinical Streams to ensure effective clinical governance. The role will work with the Stream Director(s) and Managers to develop and implement improvements, and ensure alignment of quality activities and policies aligned with the National Safety & Quality Health Service Standards.

The Safety and Quality lead will lead high-level clinical incident investigations such as Serious Adverse Event Reviews and have a baseline understanding of incident management.

The Safety and Quality lead will support executive level led committees that are accountable and responsible for driving improvement in patient safety and quality. The Safety and Quality lead is responsible for leading activities to support attainment of organisational KPI’s within their portfolio of work. The Safety and Quality lead will be responsible for developing and maintaining systems to monitor the effectiveness of their Safety and quality portfolio and providing education and support to stakeholders across the facility to engage with this system as appropriate for their roles.

**Diversity and Inclusion at St Vincent's**:
**About you**:
**Application Instructions**:
**Selection Criteria**:
1. Personal integrity and demonstrated commitment to the Philosophy, Mission and Values of Mary Aikenhead Ministries

2. Tertiary health and post graduate management qualifications or equivalent, with substantial experience in quality, safety and risk management and accreditation programs within a complex health care environment.

4. High level analytical skills and experience in clinical case review methodologies including project management and change management skills.

5. Highly developed verbal and written communication skills including strong relationship building capabilities and influencing skills with the ability to communicate, motivate, consult, and negotiate with diverse stakeholder groups including senior managers, clinicians and consumers.

6. Well-developed skills and capacity for analysing, synthesising and presenting data, and experience using data and clinical information to produce reports, briefs, submissions and presentations to drive improvement in patient safety and clinical quality.

7. Demonstrated leadership capacity and strong organisational skills with the capability to work independently on multiple work tasks with mínimal supervision, as well as collaboratively in a team environment, with an understanding of, and ability to work with, committees and a range of diverse stakeholders.

8. Significant technical experience and capability in relevant Incident Management and Quality systems, Microsoft Office including Word, Outlook, Excel and basic statistical software.

**Application close on 19 February 2025