• 76 hours per fortnight (1.0 FTE)
• Ongoing position

The Senior Leader Risk and Quality leads a team to ensure Bendigo Community Health Services’ (BCHS) risk, quality and compliance frameworks and systems are contemporary, integrated, responsive, and embedded across the organisation and meet legislative requirements.

About BCHS

Bendigo Community Health Services has cared for the health and wellbeing of the Bendigo community for 50 years. We employ more than 280 people across a broad range of services.

The success of BCHS starts with our staff, who have a high level of professionalism and dedication, allowing us to deliver quality services for the community, with a particular focus on vulnerable people.

Added benefits of working with BCHS include:

• Generous salary packaging
• Purchasing leave
• Study assistance
• Training programs
• Novated leasing

About the role

The Senior Leader Risk and Quality will support BCHS’ Executive Leader Organisational Support in overseeing and coordinating quality, risk and compliance frameworks and systems across the organisation. The role will also provide specialist advice, information and support to managers and staff on areas such as risk and management, quality management and improvement, and workplace health, safety, and wellbeing.

The Senior Leader Risk and Quality will coordinate secretarial support in the establishment and ongoing support of the Clinical Governance and Quality Committee. The position will also convene and coordinate secretarial support for the Occupational Health and Safety Committee. The work of these Committees will inform and drive risk management, clinical governance and quality improvement outcomes across BCHS supported by the Risk and Quality team.

The Senior Leader Risk and Quality will require exceptional communication skills and work effectively with a range of stakeholders, including other managers and staff. The position will draw on well-developed problem-solving skills and experience delivering change strategies to encourage and motivate others to adopt a positive and collaborative culture in relation to risk, quality, and compliance.

Key Selection Criteria

Essential

• A tertiary qualification in clinical, business management, or risk, compliance or quality management or related discipline.
• Ability to demonstrate and display the values of BCHS with a strong commitment to the values of equity and human rights.
• Demonstrated experience in planning, developing, implementing and/or maintaining risk, compliance and/or quality management systems in a healthcare and/or community setting.
• Demonstrated experience implementing organisational-wide change management strategies to support risk, quality and/or compliance management processes and initiatives.
• Demonstrated understanding of legislation, regulations and standards relating to a health and/or community service environment.
• Excellent communication skills demonstrating a capacity to engage and build relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders.
• High level sills in problem solving, systems thinking, and risk and strategic thinking.
• Excellent skills in managing time, setting priorities, planning and organising work demands to achieve objectives.
• High level skills in the use of Microsoft Office.

Desirable:

• Demonstrated experience in using electronic risk, quality and/or compliance management systems.
• A current Driver’s Licence.

Probity requirements

• A Police Check (paid for by BCHS).

Further information

For further information about the role, please contact Eileen Brownless on 0409 047 155 (business hours Monday to Thursday).

A position description is attached.