Director Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval service
3 months ago
The Hospital:
The Royal Children’s Hospital’s (RCH) Vision is “A world where all kids thrive”.
RCH is a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children’s Campus, partnering with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.
RCH has cared for the children and young people of Victoria for more than 150 years since it was founded in 1870. A full range of paediatrics and adolescent health services are provided plus tertiary and quaternary care for the most critically ill and medically complex patients in Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and other states around Australia and overseas. The Hospital has more than 6,000 staff, a budget of $850M, 12 wards and 350 beds. Annually, the RCH has 300,000+ Specialist Clinic appointments, 90,000+ Emergency Department presentations and 20,000 elective surgeries.
The RCH is committed to the Child Safe Standards.
RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact.
For further Information on RCH is available here.
Director, Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval (PIPER)
Work for Australia’s leading Children’s Hospital Challenging and rewarding work environment Senior leadership opportunity
About the Role
This position is fixed term for 3 years at up to FTE within the PIPER service.
You will be responsible for the overall leadership for the Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval (PIPER) service in line with RCH wide vision and strategy. You will be responsible to the Chief of Critical Care for the overall leadership, and the strategic and operational performance of PIPER, as determined by key performance indicators - local, hospital-wide and statewide. You will ensure PIPER consistently provides the highest quality care, education and research, whilst maintaining a sound and sustainable financial position, strong staff engagement and support, plus effective relationships with health services across Victoria, the community, and consumers of care.
What you’ll achieve:
Manage a multidisciplinary team, ensuring that RCH policies and procedures and statewide requirements are appropriately adhered to. Set the direction of the Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval (PIPER) in clinical care, education, research and quality in line with the hospital’s strategic direction and priorities, and DoH requirements. Identify, build and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including DoH, Regional and Metropolitan hospitals and Ambulance Victoria. Lead the educational activities of PIPER to facilitate a learning environment. Promote and facilitate good quality original research and quality improvement initiatives in PIPER, including building and supporting relevant internal and external research collaborations. Lead PIPER in the development of the Electronic medical record. Develop and manage the PIPER budget and establishment EFT to ensure PIPER activity is within budget. Effectively manage rosters, leave, performance management, overtime and recall.Classification for this position will be in accordance with relevant Enterprise Agreement as per professional discipline.
Your skills and experience:
This role is open to clinical and non-clinical applicants.
For Senior Medical Staff applicants
Eligible for full specialist registration with the Medical Practitioners Board of Australia. Fellowship with a relevant College. For non-Senior Medical Staff applicants
Management and leadership qualifications appropriate for the role
For all applicants
Experience in a major public teaching hospital or similar health service provider preferably at department/director level with demonstrated experience of leading a department and/or large group of professionals. A higher research or management degree.
If this sounds like you, click here to view the position description.
About the Paediatric Infant Perinatal Retrieval service
PIPER is a state-wide service providing retrieval of critically unwell patients from Victoria, Northern Tasmania, and Southern New South Wales. PIPER receives over 6000 emergency referrals per year. It’s role and contact number are well known in every Victorian health service that cares for babies, children, and pregnant women. PIPER is accessed through a single point of entry and services three distinct patient populations – children, newborns, and high-risk pregnant women. While it is best recognised for its retrieval services, PIPER also provides an emergency consultation service, accounting for 25% of its referral activity.
What we offer:
Early Learning Centre childcare Parkville location and close to public transport Discounted on-site car parking Culture of continuous improvementOther requirements:
Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain Valid Working with Children Check Compliance with RCHs “Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases” procedureApplication process:
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