Assistant Director of Nursing/Midwifery - Patient Safety and Quality Improvement

The Clinical Governance Unit are looking for an Assistant Director of Nursing/Midwifery - Patient Safety and Quality Improvement to join their team. The Metro South Health (MSH) Clinical Governance team works collaboratively with executives, senior managers, clinical/non-clinical staff and consumers to ensure that MSH has an effective, co-ordinated, organisation-wide approach to Quality Improvement, clinical effectiveness, healthcare standards, Patient Safety, patient experience and consumer liaison services.

Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.  

This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the Role
The Assistant Director of Nursing/Midwifery (ADON/ADOM) provides contemporary operational and professional nursing and midwifery leadership for the Clinical Governance Unit. The role shapes clinical and corporate governance; and provides the coordination of service delivery, human and material management, expertise in health care team communication and highly developed data analysis and fiscal management to deliver safe, quality, effective and efficient healthcare provision.

• Responsible for the activities supporting the operational achievement of performance targets, evaluations and outcomes in line with operational plans, service targets and national and state benchmarks.
• Act as an expert professional resource resolving complex, clinical, governance, operational and ethical challenges.
• Foster professional decision making in alignment with standards and frameworks by contributing to planning, coordination and evaluation of standards of practice, models of care and operational requirements.
• Collaborate and engage with nursing and midwifery colleagues, internal and external stakeholders, committees and advisory groups which support operational and strategic functions of Metro South Hospital and Health Service. 

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.

As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ( http://www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ).