Maternity Quality and Improvement Lead

Your role at St John of God Health Care

You will provide support to the Manager Maternity Services to plan and deliver priority quality initiatives. Primarily you will participate in stakeholder engagement with Maternity clinicians across multiple SJGHC services in both regional and metropolitan settings and will be responsible for centralised auditing development of resources and in person clinical support of maternity units during implementation phases.

The Position

• Provide Subject Matter Expert (SME) input into the development of clinical audits related to Obstetric and Neonatal Services.

• Conduct centralised auditing across multiple Maternity services related to key controls.

• Compile regular reports related to the analysis of audit outcomes and opportunities for improvement to enhance patient safety.

• Develop pre-implementation/ post implementation resources to support Hospitals with adoption of quality improvement actions.

• Provide SME input with the review and development of organisational policy and procedure that supports practice improvement.

• Provide SME input to the management of routine upgrades to clinical systems that support the provision of excellence in clinical care.

• Assist with the development of action plans and implementation targets across the calendar year to assist with meeting deadlines.

• Collaborate with individual Hospital management/ Midwifery teams to establish local processes that enable successful implementation of quality improvement actions.

• Provide short term in-person clinical support to individual Hospitals during implementation phases to assist with imbedding practice change.

• Facilitate caregiver development including preceptoring coaching mentoring and achieving competencies.

• Participate in Manager Meetings as well as relevant committees and working parties.

You will have demonstrated leadership experience within the Midwifery specialty in a Clinical Midwife/ ANUM Learning and Development Midwife Clinical Midwifery Specialist or Clinical Audit/ Quality and Risk officer position along with demonstrated experience with planning developing delivering and evaluating practice improvement projects within the acute hospital setting

To succeed you will hold AHPRA registration as a Nurse/Midwife or Midwife.

Above all people will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.

We can offer you

• Salary $124196 per annum (pro rata for part time) plus 12% Superannuation

• Permanent part time position working 15.2 hours a week with days of work open to negotiation

• Located at Melbourne CBD Collins St office with travel to our regional Hospitals as required

• 40% work from home option

• Salary packaging up to $18550 per FTB year on a range of benefits such as mortgage rent meal entertainment holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:

  • Novated leasing

  • work related expenses

  • self-education and

  • additional superannuation

• A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options additional purchased leave and well-being programs

• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance

• Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

For enquiries please contact Zoe Islip Manager Maternity Services on 0409 986 558

If suitable candidates are identified advertisement may close prior to listed date

Unsolicited applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted at this time.

St John of God Health Care embraces diversity and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing a safe environment for all children and vulnerable people in our care and proactively take measures to protect children/vulnerable people from abuse.