Rural Northwest Health is committed to achieving the best health for the Wimmera and Mallee community. Warracknabeal campus is one of three campuses and provides a comprehensive range of acute, urgent care, aged care, community health and allied services. Warracknabeal campus is located a short distance from Warracknabeal’s central business district and approximately halfway between Adelaide and Melbourne.
Latitude Recruitment is seeking an experienced and results-driven clinician with a strong background in Acute and/or Aged Care Quality and Safety to join Rural Northwest Health as Quality, Risk and Improvement Manager. This key leadership role is responsible for overseeing the organisation’s continuous improvement framework, including incident investigations, risk management, legislative and regulatory compliance, policy and procedure development, adherence to healthcare standards, and management of consumer feedback. Reporting to the Executive Manager, Quality, Risk and Improvement, the role works collaboratively across services and plays a critical part in supporting the delivery of safe, connected and effective care.
This is a full-time position, flexible working arrangements are on offer, wage is dependent on qualifications and experience.
To be successful in this position you will have:
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Current AHPRA registration is mandatory.
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Nursing or Allied Health qualification or equivalent.
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Demonstrated experience, high-level working knowledge and understanding of the importance of establishing and maintaining quality and safety systems, and how these support accreditation readiness, improvement-focused incident management systems, organisational risk management systems.
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Ability to approach and complete priority work in a thorough and comprehensive manner, using current evidence and a collaborative approach with key stakeholders while managing competing priorities.
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Demonstrated ability to effectively maintain Quality data systems while ensuring that such systems are supporting reliable internal and external system monitoring and reporting requirements.
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A highly developed ability to negotiate with people at all levels both internal and external in an empathetic and assertive manner.
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Demonstrated experience in successfully leading change in a complex healthcare environment.
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Demonstrated ability to write high level documents with minimum support and to effectively communicate verbally and in written form at all levels with no difficulties.
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A relevant post graduate qualification or working towards. (Highly desirable).
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Recent experience or participation in a Quality and Safety educational/professional education with recognized Quality and Safety organisations. (Highly desirable).
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Current flu vaccination evidence.
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Current Working with Children Check, Police Clearance, and NDIS Worker Screening Check.
What we can offer you:
- Flexible working arrangement available
- Accrued day off (ADO) entitlement for full time employee
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Competitive salary rate
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Personal and professional development opportunities
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Generous salary packaging benefits
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A progressive, friendly, and supportive team environment
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Employee Assistance Program
To express your interest in this position, please attach your resume and a cover letter detailing your experience on the above points, or for a copy of the PD email jade@latituderecruitment.com.au