Residential Care Quality Partner

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Nursing

Reference: 57638

Join us in our relentless pursuit of excellence. Outstanding opportunity to enhance clinical leadership and governance across Residential Services.
- Drive and lead change
- Deliver best practice care and delivery services across Residential Care

Acknowledging the vital role they play in providing healthcare to our community, Monash Health proudly supports the WHO 2020 International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife.

**About our Residential Care Services at Monash Health**

Monash Health is the largest public health service in Victoria, employing over 18,000 people across a range of specialities.

Monash Health Residential Care provides a home to over 200 people across 4 homes - Allambee, Chestnut Gardens, Mooraleigh and Yarraman.

**About The Role**

Reporting to the Quality and Compliance Manager for Residential Care and working collaboratively with the management of the 4 residential homes, you will be involved in the monitoring and evaluation of clinical standards of care and service delivery, achievement of compliance in all accreditation outcomes and monitor the effectiveness of the Monash Health Quality and Risk Management systems. The role supports the work of the Residential Service Manager Quality and Compliance.

The roll is full-time ongoing and requires travel between the residential care facilities and the Kingston Centre.

**About You**

You will need to have experience in a similar role, in which you have demonstrated success in working within a compliance based aged care environment. You are an excellent communicator, with highly developed written, verbal and interpersonal skills, enabling you to engage effectively across a wide range of stakeholders. The incumbent requires relevant nursing experience in aged care standards and quality/risk and compliance sector.

**What You Need**
- Demonstrated experience within aged care / quality compliance sector
- Current AHPRA registration - Registered Nurse
- Australian working rights

**What We Offer**
- access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your acute clinical skills & knowledge base
- avenues to further develop your leadership & project management skills
- mentorship & career guidance
- support to attend relevant forums & conferences
- a supportive learning environment, should you wish to undertake postgraduate studies

In addition, you will have access to benefits including salary packaging to increase your take-home pay, access to onsite staff car parking and gym, uniform and the Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

**How to Apply**

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity, and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children's Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.