About the RoleTake a leadership role in driving clinical excellence and patient safety.This key position offers the chance to make a real difference by shaping safety initiatives, ensuring compliance with standards, and enhancing the quality of care across the district.Build and maintain strong relationships with peers, clinicians, managers, and community members to stay informed on current and future patient safety activities.Employment Type: Permanent Full TimePosition Classification: Health Manager Level 3Remuneration: $122,850 - $139,559 per annumHours Per Week: 38Location: Blacktown and Mount Druitt HospitalsWhere you'll be workingWestern Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) is responsible for providing primary and secondary health care for people living in the Auburn, Blacktown, and The Hills Shire, Holroyd and Parramatta Local Government Areas (LGAs) and tertiary care to residents of the Greater Western Region.We are committed to our vision of 'better health services for the people of western Sydney and beyond' and to the delivery of health care or related services in line with our core values of collaboration, openness, respect, and empowerment.What you'll be doingThe Patient Safety Officer is responsible for the provision of high level oversight, leadership and promotion of organisational patient safety and clinical quality priorities within Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD).How to ApplyApply online by submitting your resume, and addressing the criteria listed below by providing examples that demonstrate your ability before the closing date.Selection CriteriaPossess an undergraduate degree in health with significant recent clinical experience in a health care setting or equivalent work experience in complex health care settings relevant to clinical governance.Demonstrated understanding of the principles of clinical governance, patient safety and clinical quality improvement, including incident management processes.Demonstrated excellent leadership and interpersonal skills and ability to act as a professional adviser to senior clinicians and managers and proven capacity to foster shared objectives and manage multi-disciplinary groups.Experience in leading or implementing patient safety systems in line with MoH Incident Management Policy including ims+ incident management system, and Serious Adverse Event Reports (SAER) and other investigations.Demonstrated high level communication skills in interacting effectively with clinical staff, senior managers and external stakeholders, including effective written communication skills.Demonstrated ability to innovate and to apply the principles of quality improvement, to develop and monitor improvement plans and support other clinicians participating in quality improvement projects.Demonstrated skills in providing education to staff through a variety of methods and modalities.Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and as a part of a multidisciplinary team managing competing priorities in a timely and efficient manner to ensure patient safety and clinical quality objectives are achieved.Requisition ID: REQ519129Applications Close: 19th November 2024People with disabilities who meet the selection criteria are encouraged to apply; and where required, WSLHD will implement reasonable adjustment consistent with industry standard.Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.Stepping Up aims to assist Aboriginal job applicants by providing information about applying for roles in NSW Health organisations.For more information, please visit Stepping Up.Please note: To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.#J-18808-Ljbffr