Address- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin Hospital – Elizabeth Vale
- Salary: $97,022 - $102,626 p.a.– ASO6 - Ongoing Full-Time
About Us:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.
With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.
Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.
At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.
Benefits of working at NALHN:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.
Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.
Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.
About You:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Quality Consultant looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.
In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.
About the Role:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Quality Consultant within the Clinical Governance Service.
As a Quality Consultant you will use very high levels of your technical, corporate, informatics, ‘patient safety and quality’ knowledge, expertise, and experience to provide strategic and operational leadership, governance, and direction across clinical and non-clinical services of the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) relating to:
- Achieve ‘quality and safety’ outcomes in accordance with National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHSS) Framework as per SA Health - Local Health Network, SAAS, State-wide Clinical Support Services and Mental Health Performance Frameworks.
- Develop, implement, and maintain quality systems to ensure ‘safety and quality’ strategic objectives & performance outcomes relating to ‘safety and quality’ are met including specific requirements under the SA Health, Accreditation Policy.
- Establishing mechanisms across NALHN to build the commitment of all locations and services to implement these safety and quality systems to meet national accreditation requirements ensuring appropriate balance between strategic, operational and the NSQHSS objectives.
- Enabling continuation of clinical services, organisation licensing & funding by achieving mandatory national accreditation requirements in accordance with SA Health, Accreditation Policy Directive.
- Achieve outcomes as determined through the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council (AHMAC) Australian Safety and Quality Goals.
Responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:
- developing, implementing and maintaining improvement initiatives within NALHN with a focus on promoting improved health care outcomes and contributing to increasing Quality Improvement capability across the NALHN.
- supporting the development of evidence-based systems to support, evaluate, and consistently ensure ongoing quality improvement in patient safety and quality of care across the NALHN in accordance with the NSQHSS, SA Health Directives & National, State & Local Health Network Safety and Quality priorities.
- developing and using health information technology (electronic health records, data repositories, etc.) and data (e.g., audit data) to identify and evaluate quality improvement initiatives, including the development of, and ongoing performance of these safety and quality improvement activities.
- identifying initiatives, developing systems, and overseeing implementation activities, related to systemic change, required to ensure compliance to SA Health, Accreditation Policy incorporating the NSQHSS.
- coordinating, leading and/or managing of complex projects, programs and or clinical research of significant scope that contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of strategic directions, policies, goals, and objectives that support professional practice demonstratively beyond the usual range.
- integrating contemporary clinical and governance data, information and research evidence with expert personal knowledge and experience to inform and support executive level strategic decision making relating to patient safety and quality.
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check.
Check(s)
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)
Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category B (indirect contact with blood or body substances)
SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 861625
Enquiries
Lauren Stone
Operations Coordinator
Phone: (08) 8282 2536
E-mail: lauren.stone@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date
5 April 2024 - 11.55PM
Attachments
861625 - Quality Consultant - ASO6 - role description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information.
