Patient Safety Officer
- Take a leadership role in driving clinical excellence and patient safety.
- This key position offers the chance to make a real difference by shaping safety initiatives, ensuring compliance with standards, and enhancing the quality of care across the district.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with peers, clinicians, managers, and community members to stay informed on current and future patient safety activities.
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Health Manager Level 3
Remuneration: $ 122,850 - $139,559 per annum
Hours Per Week: 38
Location: Across Western Sydney Local Health District
Where you'll be working
Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) is responsible for providing primary and secondary health care for people living in the Auburn, Blacktown, and The Hills Shire, Holroyd and Parramatta Local Government Areas (LGAs) and tertiary care to residents of the Greater Western Region. We are committed to our vision of 'better health services for the people of western Sydney and beyond'. and to the delivery of health care or related services in line with our core values of collaboration, openness, respect, and empowerment.
What you'll be doing
The Patient Safety Officer is responsible for the provision of high level oversight, leadership and promotion of organisational patient safety and clinical quality priorities within Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD).
How to Apply
Apply online by submitting your resume, and addressing the criteria listed below by providing examples that demonstrate your ability before the closing date.
Selection Criteria
- 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.
- Demonstrated understanding of the principles of clinical governance, patient safety and clinical quality improvement, including incident management processes.
- 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.
- Experience in leading or implementing patient safety systems in line with MoH Incident Management Policy including ims+ incident management system, and Serious Adverse Event Reports (SAER) and other investigations.
- Demonstrated high level communication skills in interacting effectively with clinical staff, senior managers and external stakeholders, including effective written communication skills.
- 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.
- Demonstrated skills in providing education to staff through a variety of methods and modalities.
- 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: REQ519129
Applications Close: 19th November 2024
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People with disabilities who meet the selection criteria are encouraged to apply; and where required, WSLHD will implement reasonable adjustment consistent with industry standard.
Please note: To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.
