Your role at St John of God Midland Hospital
you will be responsible for leadership and management of the High Dependency Secure Unit (Ward 4B), optimising patient safety, quality of care and experience, operational efficiency and contributing to the strategic objectives of the Directorate.
The Position
- Monitor standards of service and practice against benchmark targets, including nurse sensitive indicators, incident management system data, clinical indicator results and patient, doctor and caregiver satisfaction results. Where benchmarks are not met, design, implement and evaluate responses.
- Support and participate in the ACHS accreditation process/regulatory assessments, as well as group-wide and divisional Quality and Clinical Risk Management programs.
- Foster a clinical culture of interdisciplinary collaboration to improve patient outcomes.
- Ensure that patients and consumers are actively involved in relevant planning and decision-making processes.
- Works in a clinical capacity within the department as required, to support caregivers, medical officers and to ensure the delivery of safe, person-centred care.
- Ongoing financial management and monitoring of the service cost centre including, productivity, activity and utilisation in line with budgetary parameters and performance targets.
- Promotes and demonstrates a culture of innovation and improvement to enhance patient care and experience.
- Participates in the implementation and maintenance of a workforce model/model of care that enables quality of care to be maintained as well as implementing appropriate levels of workforce skills.
- Cost-effectively manage human resources, particularly ‘on-call’, overtime and rostering practices in accordance with enterprise agreements entitlements.
- Review payroll and personnel data in relation to service/unit caregivers, managing absenteeism, agency utilisation, and leave entitlements to achieve departmental budget.
- Participate in developing and implementing a recruitment, retention and succession plan to achieve skill mix profile and FTE requirements.
- Prepare and implement, in conjunction with the Nursing Director and Finance, the annual Operational Plan/Management Plan for the service/unit.
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You will hold registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia as a Registered Nurse with previous experience in setting, monitoring and meeting budgeted financial and annual operational targets and benchmarks. You will have demonstrated advanced and relevant clinical skills as well as, contemporary management and leadership experience in a Senior Nursing position in an Acute Hospital Facility. Well-developed ability in using computers and a range of application software packages is vital.
To succeed you will hold the ability to exercise sound judgement in clinical, management and ethical issues and the ability to foster a positive service orientated culture that encourages sound patient care and stewardship and strengthens medical, nursing and interdisciplinary relationships and teams. You will also have demonstrated skills and acumen in supporting and leading change management as well as the ability to effectively manage risks, balance competing priorities and deliver within expected timeframes. Demonstrated commitment to quality improvement, including the ACHS EQuiP process and clinical risk management is essential.
Relevant Post Graduate studies would be highly desirable.
Above all, patient care will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.
We can offer you
- Salary: $121,647 to $145,523, plus 11% superannuation
- A Permanent full time position, up to 76 hours per fortnight
- Discounts on hospital services & private health insurance
- Salary packaging up to $18,550 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
- Free on-site parking
- Access to fitness and wellbeing benefits through Fitness Passport
- Innovative Professional Development opportunities
- A welcoming and supportive culture
- A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave & well-being programs
All applicants are asked to submit a covering letter (of no more than two (2) pages) demonstrating how you meet the above position requirements
For enquiries contact Caroline Grennan, Nursing Director Mental Health on (08) 9462 5160.
Closing Date: 13/09/2024
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.