• Job Description

  Req#: 263429
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Lead impactful safety initiatives in a dynamic, community-focused setting.
  • Shape clinical quality and safety strategies in a pivotal healthcare role.
  • Drive continuous improvement and make a tangible difference in patient care.
  Lead patient safety, drive clinical quality, oversee incident analysis, and foster a culture of safety within Auburn hospital.
  Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
  Position Classification: Health Manager Level 3
  Remuneration: $122,850 - $139,559 per annum
  Hours Per Week: 38
  Location: Auburn
  Where you'll be working
  Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) is dedicated to delivering top-quality health services across western Sydney and beyond, guided by our core values of collaboration, openness, respect, and empowerment.
  • Provides comprehensive care across Auburn, Blacktown, The Hills Shire, Holroyd, and Parramatta.
  • Auburn Hospital offers 24-hour emergency, medical, surgical, paediatrics, maternity, and intensive care services.
  • Strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, and respect for individual differences.
  What you'll be doing
  Join our team as the Patient Safety Officer and lead the way in enhancing clinical governance functions across Auburn Hospital. In this pivotal role, you will patient safety initiatives and elevate clinical quality, ensuring the highest standards of care. You will play a key role in supporting, monitoring, implementing and evaluating safety priorities, with focus on improving patient outcomes, risk management and staff well-being.
  How to Apply
  Apply online by submitting your resume and addressing the criteria listed below, providing examples that demonstrate your ability before the closing date.
  1. Possess an undergraduate degree in health with significant recent clinical experience in a health care setting or equivalent work experience in complex health care settings relevant to clinical governance.
  2. Demonstrated understanding of the principles of clinical governance, patient safety and clinical quality improvement, including incident management processes.
  3. Demonstrated excellent leadership and interpersonal skills and ability to act as a professional adviser to senior clinicians and managers and proven capacity to foster shared objectives and manage multi-disciplinary groups.
  4. Demonstrated understanding of person-centred care, and an ability to model and promote behaviours in line with NSW Ministry of Health and WSLHD values (Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment).
  5. Demonstrated high level communication skills in interacting effectively with clinical staff, senior managers and external stakeholders, including effective written communication skills.
  6. Demonstrated ability to innovate and to apply the principles of quality improvement, to develop and monitor improvement plans and support other clinicians participating in quality improvement projects.
  7. Demonstrated skills in providing education to staff through a variety of methods and modalities.
  8. Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and as a part of a multidisciplinary team managing competing priorities in a timely and efficient manner to ensure patient safety and clinical quality objectives are achieved.
  Requisition ID: REQ506645
  Applications Close: 5th September 2024
  
  Need more information?
  • Discover more about the application process.
  • Review the detailed Position Description for insights into role requirements and criteria.
  • Explore the selection process, employment checks, outcomes and notifications.
  • For inquiries about the role, contact Chenjerai Mujuru on Chenjerai.Mujuru@health.nsw.gov.au
  People with disabilities who meet the selection criteria are encouraged to apply; and where required, WSLHD will implement reasonable adjustment consistent with industry standard.
  Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply. Stepping Up aims to assist Aboriginal job applicants by providing information about applying for roles in NSW Health organisations. For more information, please visit https://www.steppingup.health.nsw.gov.au/
  Please note: To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• About the company

  The New South Wales Ministry of Health, branded NSW Health, is a ministerial department of the New South Wales Government.

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