Patient Safety Lead

Sydney Children's Hospitals Network is the largest paediatric health care entity in Australia. We care for thousands of children each year in our hospitals and in their homes — with one purpose in mind — to help young people live their healthiest lives.

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• Additional Information
• An eligibility list may be created for future permanent full or part time and temporary full or part time vacancies.
• What you'll be doing

The Clinical Governance Unit (CGU) has the roles of support, performance and conformance in developing and monitoring policies and procedures for improving systems of care. The CGU will oversee the risk management of patient safety and clinical quality by building upon existing incident management and investigation systems.

The main functions of the CGU patient safety team is managing and overseeing of incident management; ensuring that all patient deaths are reviewed; providing support to clinicians and managers for clinical quality improvement strategies and clinician performance review; developing organisation-wide policies relating to patient safety and clinical quality; and reporting to the Safety & Quality Improvement Committee, that is over seen by the Organisation's Health Care Quality Committee on the effectiveness of these initiatives.

The purpose of the position is to :

Work collaboratively with senior and line managers to provide advice and support in relation to preparing, maintaining, and improving information and reporting systems associated with patient safety and clinical quality

Manage and coordinate the Incident Information Management System (IIMS) including data entry, providing data reports to inform decision making; coordination of Reportable Incident Briefs (RIBS) and incident investigations; and monitoring of performance indicators.

Undertake and coordinate quality and safety activities within the facility as directed by the Network Manager of Patient Safety.

• Relevant Tertiary qualifications and / or significant recent clinical experience in a health care setting.
• Demonstrated understanding of the principles and practice of clinical governance and the management of patient safety including successful experience in clinical quality and patient safety.
• Proven ability in the management of conflicting priorities, meeting deadlines and excellent time management skills.
• Demonstrated excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated capacity to act as a professional adviser to senior clinicians and managers and proven capacity to foster shared objectives and manage multi-disciplinary groups.
• Demonstrated high level communication skills in interacting effectively with clinical staff, senior managers and external stakeholders, including effective verbal and written communication skills in the development and presentation of reports and briefs.
• Demonstrated skills and experience in dealing with large volumes of complex information in a timely and efficient manner including demonstrated advanced computer skills in Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Able to demonstrate qualities such as integrity, humility, warmth, friendliness and enthusiasm.

SCHN is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity - we acknowledge the vibrancy that a diverse workforce brings to enhance both our workplace culture and our service delivery to children, young people and their families and carers. We encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply. If you identify as an Indigenous Australian or as a person with a disability, please contact us if you would like some more information about our recruitment process.

Please refer to the Application Guide and NSW Policy Directive PD2022_030 _Occupational Assessment Screening and Vaccination Against Specified Infectious Diseases_ for vaccination requirements.

NSWHealth is committed to child safety in line with the Child Safe Standards

Applicants holding visas with working rights may be considered for temporary appointment (up to the expiry date of their visa) where no suitable local applicant is identified.

• Please note
• To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.

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• Applications Close : 9 / 09 / 2024