Patient Safety Officer - Brisbane, Australia - Queensland Health

Queensland Health

Verified Company

Brisbane, Australia

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Olivia Brown

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Description

Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.

This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the Role

The purpose of this role is to provide clinical expertise and consultancy through advanced clinical leadership relevant to the speciality of Patient Safety. The Clinical Nurse Consultant provide leadership and expertise in the development, implementation and evaluation of patient safety and quality initiatives and fostering a safety culture and learning for improvement.
The role provides advanced clinical and problemsolving skills, expert planning and coordination skills in the clinical management to assist staff in providing safe and reliable care for patients/residents/clients with complex care needs, ensuring quality standards are met. This role works autonomously within the Healthcare Team structure and is pivotal in the planning, managing and delivering to support clinical teams in providing specialist nursing care. The CNC provides expertise in leadership for professional and clinical practice, education and research.
A post graduate qualification or currently enrolled in a post graduate program in a relevant area of study is highly desirable.

Our ICARE2 values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health.

Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.

As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.

It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against COVID-19 Health Employment Directive No.

12/21 and Queensland Health Human Resources Policy B70.