Safe Systems and Performance Lead

Safe Systems and Performance Lead
Grampians Health Quality Team 
Permanent - Part time
64 hours per fortnight

About Grampians Health
Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell. 

Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services

About this Role

The Safe System and Performance Lead works closely with the Quality leadership team, and is responsible for delivering and promoting a pro-active and integrated approach to risk management, and compliance with legislation throughout Grampians Health (GH). 

The Safe Systems and Performance Lead works with team members in the work group, and oversees the development and implementation of risk reduction and mitigation strategies and improvements, enabling an ‘always safe’ culture. This Lead role will provide leadership concerning safety processes to inform improvement including; incident reporting and management, clinical investigation, and legislative compliance. The role will provide expert guidance in systems thinking, operational excellence, change management, sustainability, data and analytics, governance and quality.

The Lead will work closely with the GH Director of Quality and Assistant Director Safe Systems and Performance to develop and implement Systems and processes for safe, effective person-centred connected care.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of a comprehensive and effective risk management framework, consistent with relevant regulatory requirements; the periodic organisational review of the Risk Management Framework; and the annual review of Risk Management plans
• Lead risk management processes relating to enterprise risk (clinical and corporate) and aActively promote, manage and support the use of the GH Risk Register
• Ensure a comprehensive legislative compliance framework is available to GH staff as per the ISO 31000:2018 Risk Management guidelines
• Work within the Systems and processes to support staff to maintain compliance with relevant regulations and legislation and provide timely reports on legislative compliance
• Promote the principles of co-production in all GH service development.
• Work collaboratively with all staff to promote a continuous improvement culture
• Identify clinical and corporate risks and make recommendations based on evidence to GH staff and groups to improve consumer and workforce safety
• Ensure GH has communication mechanisms that are tailored to the diversity of the consumers who use its services and, where relevant, the diversity of the local community

How to apply
Click APPLY or contact Jodie Crellin, Assistant Director Safe Systems & Performance, on 0419 550 *** for a confidential discussion

All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.

All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask.  Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.
Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people.

Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.