Manager, Clinical Governance Leadership

**About the role**:
The Manager, (Clinical Governance Leadership & Safety Culture) will be responsible for leading a team that designs and delivers clinical governance leadership and safety culture interventions that deliberately foster the mindsets, behaviours and practices that create high quality, safe and person-centred healthcare.
Reporting to the Director, Clinical Governance, Culture & Capability, the Manager will be responsible for:

- Developing new and managing existing relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Working collaboratively across Culture & Capability, Safer Care Victoria, Department of Health, health entities, and other relevant groups and organisations to meet program deliverables and to support strategic thinking.
- Managing a team of strategic thinkers with growth mindsets who will help Victorian healthcare leaders at all levels create the conditions for safe, reliable, and high-quality care.
- Being comfortable with ambiguity whilst able to identify strategies and ways forward to support our ‘clients'

The purpose of the Clinical Governance, Culture, & Capability Program is to support the Victorian health sector to develop the organisational conditions for safety and quality, thereby preventing harm and ensuring high-quality, reliable, and person-centred care. The organisational conditions include the leadership behaviours, workforce capability, policies, frameworks, and practices, change interventions, and ability to respond to risk and harm in the system.
**About us**:
At the Victorian Department of Health we want a future where Victorians are the healthiest people in the world. A Victoria where our children and people thrive, our workplaces are productive and safe, and our communities are more connected.
We see it as our job to support Victorians to stay healthy and safe. And to deliver a world-class healthcare system that ensures every single Victorian can access safe, quality care that leads to better health outcomes for all.
**How you'll make a difference**:Suitable applicants will be able to demonstrate**:
Knowledge and Skills
Executive Leadership Development and Coaching - Experience working with executive leadership to develop capability and adopt positive, constructive leadership behaviour. Confident and able to coach individuals at this level of their career to solve own challenges.
Strategic Planning - Thinks at the big picture level, entertains wide-ranging possibilities in developing a vision for the future, works across a number of time frames, translates strategic direction into day-to-day activities.
Relationship Building - Establishes and maintains relationships with people at all levels; promotes harmony and consensus through diplomatic handling of disagreements; forges useful partnerships with people across business areas, functions, and organisations; builds trust through consistent actions, values, and communication; minimises surprises
Systems Thinking - Diagnoses trends, obstacles, and opportunities in the internal and external environment; understand the linkages between natural systems and communities to inform policy; conceptualises and defines the systems working within the organisation
Self - Management - Plans and prioritises work to ensure outcomes are achieved, resists the temptation to react immediately without taking time to think things through, uses strengths to contribute constructively and consciously manages the impact of own weaknesses, anticipates own reactions to situations and prepares accordingly
Personal Qualities
Integrity - Committed to the public interest; operates in a manner that is consistent with the organisation's code of conduct; inspires trust by treating all individuals fairly
Developing Others - Actively seeks to improve others' skills and talents by providing constructive feedback, coaching, and training opportunities; empowers others by investing them with the authority and latitude to accomplish tasks; appropriately delegates responsibilities to further the development of others
Relationship Building - Establishes and maintains relationships with people at all levels; promotes harmony and consensus through diplomatic handling of disagreements; forges useful partnerships with people across business areas, functions and organisations; builds trust through consistent actions, values and communication; minimises surprises.
Teamwork - Cooperates and works well with others in the pursuit of team goals; collaborates and shares information; shows consideration, concern and respect for others' feelings and ideas; accommodates and works well with the different working styles of others; encourages resolution of conflict within group.
Decisiveness - Takes rational and sound decisions based on a consideration of the facts and alternatives; makes tough decisions, sometimes with incomplete information; evaluates rational and emotional elements of situations; makes quick decisions where required; commits to a definite cour