Quality Improvement Consultant –

MidWest Area Mental Health Service

• Full time, Fixed Term (until Nov 2022)
• Great opportunity if you have an interest in quality improvement and to work collaboratively with the MWMAHS executive team and with NWMH Quality, Planning and Innovation Unit
• Actively participate in your own practice development

At MWAMHS, we provide inpatient services at Sunshine Hospital, community services based in Sunshine and Melton, specialist mental health services including Perinatal mental health and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Service.

In the next 12 months, MWAMHS will be delivering new services to the community with two, 26-bed psychiatric inpatient unit and a 12-bed Women's Prevention and Recovery Centre which has the ability to accommodate young dependents.

Your new role

• Building strategic relationships with key stakeholders
• Embed the clinical governance framework (STEP) including components of clinical risk management, improved clinical standards, procedure development, workforce development and evaluation and monitoring systems.
• Focus on risks management and the coordination of the systems investigating adverse events
• Support the design and implementation of quality improvement activities

About You:

• Excellent verbal and written communications with experience in delivery of verbal and written reports
• Good analytical skills, ability to make decisions and to escalate decisions where management and executive decision making is required
• Ability to perform multiple tasks and activities and continuously prioritise
• Ability to motivate, collaborate and engage with multiple stakeholders, including consumers, carer representatives, discipline seniors and quality coordinators to ensure communication strategies and clear objectives are met including timelines.
  

Benefit of working with NorthWestern Mental Health

• Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
• Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
• Salary packaging and monthly ADO's

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?

For a confidential discussion please connect via the details below.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and a Working with Children Check. Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment and COVID19 Vaccination prior to commencement.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are highly encouraged to apply.

Experience in working with ACCHO and Aboriginal Communities and Families is strongly regarded.