Executive Director - Quality and Patient Safety
Tasmanian Government
- Launceston, TAS
- $165,446-182,913 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- The Executive Director of Quality and Patient Safety (EDQPS) is responsible for the effective leadership and management of the Hospital's North Safety, Quality, Risk and Service Program and for providing leadership and direction in the ongoing strategic development and evaluation of quality and patient safety systems and processes within a clinical governance framework.
- Provide effective and inclusive implementation of the National Safety & Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards accreditation scheme, the National Aged Care Quality Standards, local integrated quality, improvement and patient safety programs, consistent with the organisational needs and in keeping with contemporary practice.
- Develop, foster and support a professional culture aligned to the organisation's values, promoting and supporting strategic direction for clinical governance and safe service delivery across the region.
- This role works across clinical and non-clinical areas.
- The Hospitals North is comprised Launceston General Hospital (LGH) is a level 5 tertiary Hospital within the Tasmanian Role Delineation Framework and Primary Health North. The LGH has 349 inpatient beds, 117.7 presentations to the Emergency Department daily, 5 births daily. Primary Health North is comprised of a number of district hospitals, residential aged care facilities and community services.
- Our values are Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Together, our values spell CARE. Our CARE values focus on the importance of care, compassion and kindness towards one another and the community as we strive to deliver safe, quality care and services.
- The Executive Director of Quality and Patient Safety is a member of the Hospitals North Executive and leads the quality and patient safety governance function within the organisation and supports the Executive and clinical teams with quality and patient safety governance and frameworks.
- Leads quality and patient safety professional team to support and facilitate the quality and patient safety function within the organisation.
- Applicants should note that, for a period of twelve months from the date of publication, this selection process may be used to fill subsequent or similar full time and part time vacancies.
- Salary range is in accordance with Public Sector Unions Wages Agreement 2022
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- Identification check
- Disciplinary action in previous employment check.
- We do not require a separate statement addressing the selection criteria.
- All attachments must be in Microsoft Word or PDF format.
- Referee details are submitted as part of the online application so make sure you have the contact details of two referees before applying.
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