Clinical Quality And Development Lead

Exciting time to join Empower - seeking Clinical Quality and Development Lead

**Flexible working arrangements to suit your needs. We deliver exceptional care that positively impacts people's lives Be part of a progressive company dedicated to being the first choice for care, and the best place to work.**
- Exciting time to join Empower - seeking Clinical Quality and Development Lead.

**Why you should join our Awesome Team**
The best outcomes for clients. The best outcomes for you.

**Unparalleled Benefits**
You will also have access to these amazing benefits:

- Parental leave
- Paid external professional development and study leave
- Free Counselling support through our Employee Assistance Program
- Employee discount and benefits portal
- Loyalty service awards including vouchers, annual dinner and company sponsored holidays
- Quarterly Employee Recognition Program
- Lucrative referral bonus
- Professional indemnity insurance
- Regular social catchups

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**Does this sound like the role for you?**

Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist who is looking to progress your career with a growing, innovative company which is genuinely committed to providing best practice, outcome focused services to the people we support? If yes, then we would love to speak to you.

We are looking for an Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist who loves what they do, is passionate about quality, service development, and building structures that support clinicians to grow, thrive and deliver best-practice clinical services.

**The Opportunity**

You will be responsible for ongoing development and improvement of our clinical governance framework and processes, supporting service development in line with best-practice (post-graduate research skills will be looked on favourably), and supporting structures that enables therapists to grow and deliver great outcomes for our clients. You will support a culture of positive engagement and develop an environment of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement of across all our clinical services, reporting directly to our Clinical Services Director.

Your job responsibilities are as follows and not limited to.
- Support clinical capability and development of Empower clinicians across all Empower clinical services. This includes development, review and continuous improvement of our clinical support and development frameworks in line with clinical service and business requirements.
- Support best-practice clinical service delivery and improvement, in line with best practice. This includes development, review, and continuous improvement of Empowers' clinical governance framework, tools, resources, processes, and training.
- Support Empower Clinical Managers to review, manage and minimize clinical risk to the client, the clinician, and the organisation.
- Support service development in line with planning for future growth, changes in the external environment, and business strategy. This includes research to support clinical best-practice in service delivery.

**Do you have what it takes?**

We are looking for someone that is passionate about making a difference in the lives of our people. As a Clinical Quality & Development Lead at Empower, you align with our core values of shared purpose, strive for excellence, act with integrity, and practice positivity and consistently live these values every day and inspire others to live these values.

You must have:

- Relevant degree in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy
- Experience working in community aged care services in Australia, including Home Care Package and Commonwealth Home Support Program.
- Substantial clinical experience
- Previous experience in a clinical leadership, clinical governance, or clinical quality management role
- Registration with AHPRA
- Police Check Clearance
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong time-management and organisational skills and attention to detail

Desirable:

- Post-graduate research skills and experience

**Our Story**
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At Empower Healthcare our purpose is to deliver exceptional care that positively impacts peoples' lives.

We have an impressive offering of services spanning Home Care, NDIS and Residential Aged Care including Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Dietetics, Osteopathy, Massage, Speech Pathology, Allied Health Assistants and Nursing. With more than 180 exceptional clinicians across Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, and Western Australia, we are changing lives.

Our commitment is to deliver exceptional care by expert clinicians with an aim to enhance independence and improve the quality of life of the people we care for. We are here to empower everyone to live their best life.

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- At our core, we believe that everyone deserves access to high quality Healthcare, regardless of their race, gender, ethnicity, age, or any other factor