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Nurse / Compounder
Assistant Director of Nursing / Midwifery - Diagnostic Safety and Quality Lead
Nurse / Compounder
#34551
Remote / WFH
Queensland Government
Job Description
Your new role:
As the Assistant Director of Nursing/Midwifery - Diagnostic Safety and Quality Lead, you will lead a Metro South Health-wide project to strengthen governance, clarify accountability and streamline end-to-end processes that support the safe closure of the diagnostic loop. You will:
Lead the development, implementation and evaluation of governance frameworks, policies and workflows that support effective diagnostic follow-up and patient safety.
Partner with executive leaders, clinical services, Digital Health and Informatics, and multidisciplinary teams to improve diagnostic result management and reduce organisational risk.
Drive quality improvement, clinical redesign and change management initiatives that strengthen accountability and consistency across multiple services and sites.
Utilise data, evidence and risk intelligence to identify system gaps, monitor performance and deliver sustainable improvements in patient safety and clinical outcomes.
About you:
You are a contemporary nursing or midwifery leader with extensive experience in clinical governance, patient safety and healthcare improvement. You have:
Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia as a Registered Nurse and/or Registered Midwife.
Significant leadership experience in clinical governance, quality improvement, patient safety or healthcare management within a complex healthcare environment.
Demonstrated ability to influence and engage executive leaders, clinicians and multidisciplinary stakeholders to achieve strategic outcomes.
Strong expertise in governance, risk management, policy implementation, service redesign and evidence-based improvement methodologies.
What we can offer you:
We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.
Clinical Governance Risk and Legal Profile
The Metro South Clinical Governance, Risk and Legal division works collaboratively with executives, senior managers, clinical/non-clinical staff and consumers to ensure that Metro South Health has an effective, coordinated organisational wide approach to quality improvement, clinical effectiveness, healthcare standard, patient safety, patient experience and consumer liaison services. This ensures Metro South Health's approach to clinical governance remains contemporary, customer focused and based on the best available evidence.
INTEGRITY COMPASSION ACCOUNTABILITY RESPECT ENGAGEMENT EXCELLENCE
Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, ****** orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.
We are Metro South Health:
We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.
We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.
We are better together.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.
As the Assistant Director of Nursing/Midwifery - Diagnostic Safety and Quality Lead, you will lead a Metro South Health-wide project to strengthen governance, clarify accountability and streamline end-to-end processes that support the safe closure of the diagnostic loop. You will:
Lead the development, implementation and evaluation of governance frameworks, policies and workflows that support effective diagnostic follow-up and patient safety.
Partner with executive leaders, clinical services, Digital Health and Informatics, and multidisciplinary teams to improve diagnostic result management and reduce organisational risk.
Drive quality improvement, clinical redesign and change management initiatives that strengthen accountability and consistency across multiple services and sites.
Utilise data, evidence and risk intelligence to identify system gaps, monitor performance and deliver sustainable improvements in patient safety and clinical outcomes.
About you:
You are a contemporary nursing or midwifery leader with extensive experience in clinical governance, patient safety and healthcare improvement. You have:
Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia as a Registered Nurse and/or Registered Midwife.
Significant leadership experience in clinical governance, quality improvement, patient safety or healthcare management within a complex healthcare environment.
Demonstrated ability to influence and engage executive leaders, clinicians and multidisciplinary stakeholders to achieve strategic outcomes.
Strong expertise in governance, risk management, policy implementation, service redesign and evidence-based improvement methodologies.
What we can offer you:
We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.
Clinical Governance Risk and Legal Profile
The Metro South Clinical Governance, Risk and Legal division works collaboratively with executives, senior managers, clinical/non-clinical staff and consumers to ensure that Metro South Health has an effective, coordinated organisational wide approach to quality improvement, clinical effectiveness, healthcare standard, patient safety, patient experience and consumer liaison services. This ensures Metro South Health's approach to clinical governance remains contemporary, customer focused and based on the best available evidence.
INTEGRITY COMPASSION ACCOUNTABILITY RESPECT ENGAGEMENT EXCELLENCE
Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, ****** orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.
We are Metro South Health:
We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.
We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.
We are better together.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.
