Senior Clinical Governance Manager

At Cerebral Palsy Alliance, we value diversity, foster an inclusive culture and champion equitable opportunities. We strongly encourage applications from candidates with a diverse range of backgrounds and lived experiences including people with disability, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and the LGBTQIA+ community.

Join us and make a positive difference to the lives of people with disabilities, and to grow your career as part of our alliance of great minds. Our shared values are Passionate, Respectful, Ethical, Curious and Courageous.
About the role
The Senior Manager, Clinical Governance and Practice Leadership manages, executes and contributes to key strategic projects involving the design, quality and implementation of clinical services delivered by CPA. The role ensures that services provided reflect the translation of research into practice through service design and capability of clinicians. The Senior Manager is responsible for leading the implementation and monitoring of a range of initiatives that support the organisations Clinical Governance Framework. Leading a team, the role provides leadership and support to ensure high quality and safe provision of services.
Duties include

• Leads the Clinical Governance and Practice Leadership team to ensure the successful implementation of operational and strategic initiatives
  
• Drive focus on a culture of continual improvement and quality
  
• Develop and maintain effective external relationships with government and non-government agencies to raise awareness of sector wide issues and promote best practice
  
• Leverage relationships with internal stakeholders to enhance practice and service outcomes
  
• Accountable for the management of the product and innovation pipeline for client services
  
• Represent the organisation at forums, networks and relevant regulatory bodies to secure support and engagement for the organisation and clients
  
• Identify competency gaps within the clinical workforce and lead the development and implementation of strategies to meet current and future demand
  
• Contribute to the Clinical Governance Framework at CPA, ensuring utilisation of current research, compliance with legal requirements
  
• Ensure education programs are aligned to Clinical Governance framework, policy and procedures
  
• Ensure CPA is focused on the design of products and services that can be enabled at a business level to achieve better outcomes for our clients
  

About you:

• Proven experience in leading Clinical Governance and Practice Leadership team
  
• Broad experience and understanding of Clinical governance and regulation, able to align best practice with client needs
  
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills to positively collaborate with internal & external groups and clients
  

Important information:
At CPA the safety of our staff and clients is of paramount importance. We have assessed this role type as requiring a low level of physical functionality with some inherent requirements. For more information on what that may mean for this role please click here.
Please let us know if you have any pre-existing injuries or illnesses which you are currently seeking, or have sought, medical treatment for which you think may impact your ability to fulfil the inherent requirements of this role. CPA is committed to supporting an inclusive work environment and engaging workers with diverse lived experience. We will happily consider and accommodate reasonable adjustments that may be required to support candidates throughout the recruitment process, and to be successful and safe employees of CPA.
Cerebral Palsy Alliance is committed to the safety and wellbeing of our clients and staff. As such all employees at CPA must be triple vaccinated against COVID-19, prior to their start date. Cerebral Palsy Alliance is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Cerebral Palsy Alliance upholds, advocates for, and protects the  rights, wellbeing and safety of people with a disability. We are a child safe organisation and all workers are responsible to adhere to the NDIS Worker Code of Conduct.
CPA is a smoke free workplace including in, on and around CPA sites and vehicles.
How to Apply
Please click 'Apply' to complete your application. If you have any questions about the role or require any reasonable adjustments to enable you to equitably participate in the recruitment process please contact saul.bunton@cerebralpalsy.org.au