Quality, Safety

**Description**:

- ** Permanent full-time opportunity**:

- ** Supportive & friendly leadership team**:

- ** Up to $15,900 salary packaging per financial year**:

- ** Based in Rydalmere**

**About us..**:
Royal Rehab is a leading provider of rehabilitation services in brain and spinal cord injury. Our services also include neurological and general rehabilitation, supported independent living and specialist disability services. Our vision is a world without limits for people with disability, illness and injury.

Royal Rehab is renowned for our focus on research and innovation and sits uniquely as a provider of advanced rehabilitation and disability services including supported accommodation, private rehabilitation hospitals, a purpose-built resort for people with spinal cord injury and community services.

**About the role..**:
Exciting opportunity for a talented **Quality, Safety & Risk Officer** to join Royal Rehab. The Quality, Safety and Risk Officer will provide advanced strategic and operational support, to the Quality, Safety and Risk Manager and management team on Clinical Governance key priorities across the Breakthru business unit.

Working with Breakthru staff, the role will provide support in undertaking, monitoring and achieving key Clinical Governance tasks aimed at improving the operational efficiency, performance effectiveness, patient safety, quality and experience across Breakthru Community, Accommodation and Disability Employment Services.

Although based in Rydalmere, the role requires occasional travel across NSW, QLD and VIC.

**Key responsibilities include**:

- Support Breakthru to ensure key Clinical Governance priorities and all reporting requirements are managed, with mínimal supervision, in a timely and efficient manner.
- Support the General Managers and Executive Director in the organisation of training and education sessions run by Quality, Safety and Risk Team.
- Support Breakthru in the preparation for audit and accreditation requirements including: National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Practice Standards, Australian Community Industry Standard (ACIS), National Standards for Disability Services (NSDS), QIC Health and Community Services Standards, and Quality Systems Assessment in conjunction with the Quality, Safety and Risk Team.
- Provide support in the development and implementation of strategies and policies to address quality and risk issues with a focus on performance improvement and integrated clinical and corporate risk management.
- Assist in the effective implementation of clinical governance systems and processes to collect, analyse, monitor and report on incident data to identify and proactively manage areas of risk and improvement opportunities.
- Provide support in the implementation of the clinical governance framework including; incident management system, client experience and feedback system, auditing and monitoring system, accreditation and quality improvement system and related client safety activities and risk management system.
- Support Work Health and Safety Better Practice by identifying, assessing, and monitoring hazards and risks within the workplace.

**About you..**:
Are you a self-motivated, practical, and diligent individual? Looking to step up to a challenge and further your career aspects? Then this is the perfect role for you

**Essential Criteria**:

- Recognised qualification in a health-related field, or equivalent recent, relevant work experience in a health care setting, or a combination of study and work experience.
- Excellent organisational skills and demonstrated ability to effectively manage time in order to prioritise competing demands.
- Demonstrated advanced knowledge and practical skills with Microsoft Office software and records management software and aptitude for learning other information management systems.
- Demonstrate high level oral and written communication, interpersonal and consultation skills with the ability to build strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to work under broad supervision and to effectively self-manage the day-to-day workflow of the position.
- Demonstrated ability to provide strategic and issue specific advice at all service levels in relation to clinical governance systems, processes and issues.

**What we offer..**:

- ** Salary Packaging**: Up to $15,900 salary packaging per financial year
- ** Benefits**: Fitness Passport & HCF Private Health Insurance discounts
- ** Career growth**: Genuine career opportunities
- ** Work life balance**: Flexible work arrangements
- ** Salary**: Competitive remuneration
- ** Leadership**:Supportive and experienced leadership team
- ** Culture**: Friendly and close-knit team environment

We are proud of our diverse and skilled team of passionate healthcare and support professionals committed to delivering the very best for the people we serve. A career at Royal Rehab is the opportunity to make a dif