Senior Quality Improvement Specialist
The Royal Melbourne Hospital
- Part Time Ongoing Role (48 hours per fortnight)
- Lead and promote a culture of Safe, Timely, Effective Person-Centred Care across RMH
- Advise and coach individuals, and teams in Whole System Quality and co-design
- Join the team and build a career while enjoying the benefits of salary packaging and a central North Melbourne location
The Quality and Improvement Team is a Quality and Improvement strategic partner to each of our five clinical service areas:
- Access, Critical Care, and Investigative Services,
- Home First, Ambulatory, and complex Care Services
- Medical Services
- Mental Health Service
- Surgical Services
Our team of quality and safety specialists provide advice, coach, teach and support service leadership and frontline staff in the design and delivery of high-quality care that is safe, timely, effective and person centred.
Your new role:
As a dedicated clinical area service partner, alongside the Q and Improvement team, you will be responsible for strategically advising and coaching individuals, and teams in Whole System Quality. This includes the design and delivery of service quality planning activities, clinical governance functions, quality assurance and control functions, quality improvement and capability building.
- Partner with clinical services to shape, promote and lead a proactive approach to whole system quality.
- Build capability at all levels of an organisation, to create an environment in which innovative ideas can be implemented to address problems in healthcare delivery.
- Partner with service leadership and frontline staff to provide contemporary, innovative, and accurate best practice advice in clinical risk, patient safety and improvement opportunities
About you:
- Able to demonstrate experience and understanding of whole system quality
- Comfortable engaging with senior clinicians and executives in quality planning processes, clinical risk, patient safety and improvement opportunities
- Able to shape, communicate and implement improvement initiatives to deliver organisation-level outcomes
Benefits of working with the Royal Melbourne Hospital:
• Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
• Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
• Salary packaging, central north Melbourne location, close to public transport.
The RMH is proud to be a workplace that champions diversity, inclusion and equality for our staff and our community. Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day. We encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies, and will consider adjustments to support such applications.
Interested?
If you are looking for a challenging role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us.
For a confidential discussion please connect via the details below.
Please note that all applications will be assessed on receipt and the position may be appointed prior to the closing date.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and a Working with Children Check if applicable. Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment and COVID-19 Vaccination prior to commencement.