Assistant Director - Diagnostic Safety and Quality Lead

Your new role:

This role offers the opportunity to influence strategic decision-making and deliver meaningful improvements in patient safety across multiple healthcare settings. You will:

• Lead the design, implementation and evaluation of organisation-wide governance frameworks, policies and systems that support reliable closure of the diagnostic loop.
• Provide expert clinical governance leadership and advice on diagnostic safety, quality improvement, risk management and patient safety initiatives.
• Collaborate with executive leaders, Digital Health and Informatics, clinical directorates and multidisciplinary teams to strengthen accountability and governance processes.
• Analyse performance data, risk information and evidence to identify improvement opportunities and deliver sustainable organisational change

About you:

You are an experienced Allied Health professional with a strong background in clinical governance, healthcare quality and strategic leadership. You will bring:

• A recognised Allied Health qualification and eligibility for registration or membership with the relevant professional body.
• Demonstrated experience leading clinical governance, patient safety, quality improvement or service redesign initiatives within complex healthcare environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to provide authoritative advice and build effective partnerships across all levels of an organisation.
• Exceptional analytical, project management and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate evidence, policy and data into practical system-wide improvements.

What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Clinical Governance Risk and Legal Profile

The Metro South Clinical Governance, Risk and Legal division works collaboratively with executives, senior managers, clinical/non-clinical staff and consumers to ensure that Metro South Health has an effective, coordinated organisational wide approach to quality improvement, clinical effectiveness, healthcare standard, patient safety, patient experience and consumer liaison services. This ensures Metro South Health's approach to clinical governance remains contemporary, customer focused and based on the best available evidence.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.