Description
- Permanent full-time opportunity
- Up to $18,550 salary packaging benefits (lower your taxable income and increase your take home pay!)
- Fitness Passport & HCF Private Health Insurance discounts
- Ryde & Petersham locations
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.
We know diversity makes Royal Rehab a great place to work and we are committed to building an inclusive workplace culture that reflects the people we serve. We encourage applications from diverse community groups including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+, people with a disability and people from culturally diverse backgrounds.
At Royal Rehab we are proud to be Great Place to Work Certified!!
About the role..
Join our team as the Quality, Safety & Risk Manager and lead the way in enhancing clinical governance functions across Royal Rehab’s Ryde (Public and Private) and Royal Rehab Private Petersham Hospitals. In this pivotal role, you will drive patient safety initiatives and elevate clinical quality, ensuring the highest standards of care. You will play a key role in supporting, implementing, and monitoring critical clinical governance priorities, with a focus on improving patient safety, risk management, and client experience.
If you’re passionate about leading change and advancing healthcare quality, apply now and make a significant impact with us!
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead quality improvement initiatives across the Hospital Business Units, supporting improvement science and disseminating lessons learned.
- Provide expertise to implement the clinical governance framework, including incident management, experience and feedback, auditing and monitoring, accreditation and quality improvement, patient safety activities, and risk management systems.
- Ensure effective implementation of clinical governance systems and processes to collect, analyse, monitor, and report on incident data, proactively managing areas of risk and identifying improvement opportunities.
- Lead the preparation and coordination of accreditation and audit programs, including National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards and National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Practice Standards.
- Lead investigations into serious patient safety and clinical incidents, facilitating the implementation of strategies for prevention, improvement, and effective systems for identifying, investigating, monitoring, and reporting safety risks and adverse events.
- Oversee the Hospitals' complaints management and investigation process, working with managers to facilitate fair and timely resolution.
- Provide leadership in the identification, review, and implementation of policies and procedures that comply with legislative and regulatory requirements.
- Lead improvement programs focused on enhancing the patient experience, improving safety culture, and fostering effective communication.
- Provide advice to Hospital Management to ensure a consistency of approach to clinical quality, risk and patient safety and work with them as a team to ensure the best service possible is delivered to patients.
About you..
We seek a self-motivated and friendly individual with:
Essential Criteria:
- Recognised qualification in a health-related field, or equivalent.
- Demonstrated understanding of patient safety and quality improvement with proven ability to support clinical governance processes.
- Knowledge of integrated risk management principles and experience in the concepts and processes of risk management and improvement.
- Superior conceptual and analytical skills including experience interpreting complex information from numerous sources, preparing and presenting analysis and reports rapidly and accurately to a variety of audiences, and providing innovative solutions to complex patient safety issues.
- High level oral and written communication, negotiation and conflict resolution skills and experience in providing expert advice to multidisciplines, both internal and external to the organisation.
- Ability to work autonomously, make judgements and organise high volumes of workload with competing deadlines.
- 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: Lower your taxable income and increase your take-home pay
- Benefits: Fitness Passport & HCF Private Health Insurance discounts
- Career growth: Genuine career opportunities
- Work life balance: Flexible work arrangements
- Salary: Competitive remuneration
- Employee Assistance Program: Access to professional counselling and coaching for you and your immediate family
- Leadership: Supportive and experienced leadership team
- Culture: Friendly and close-knit team environment
- Proud to be Great Place to Work Certified!!
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 difference with a progressive and innovative organisation, built on a rich history of community care since 1899.
What’s next..
If this sounds like the perfect role for you, address the essential criteria in your cover letter and CLICK HERE TO APPLY NOW to start your journey with us!
Please note, only applicants that address this essential criteria will be considered.
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The successful applicant will be required to undergo pre-employment checks including but not limited to a current criminal record check working with children check, employment history and referee checks.
A career with Royal Rehab is an opportunity to collaborate, grow and make a difference with an iconic organisation recognised as a leader in rehabilitation and disability support.
We do not provide sponsorship and no agencies please.
Further Enquiries:
Joanne Cucio, A/Executive Manager - Quality, Safety & Risk
Phone: 0468 677 224
Email: Joanne.Cucio@royalrehab.com.au
Application Close Date: Friday 6th September 2024
