Patient Safety Officer

Your new role:

Provide clinical leadership and expertise in patient safety, incident management and quality improvement, working collaboratively to strengthen a culture of safety across Logan and Beaudesert Health Service through:

• Leading the review, investigation and analysis of clinical incidents and sentinel events, identifying opportunities to reduce preventable patient harm.
• Coordinating clinical incident reporting, monitoring and management, including SAC 1 incidents.
• Providing expert advice and guidance on patient safety, clinical governance and risk management.
• Analysing clinical data and trends to inform service improvements and enhance patient outcomes.
• Building strong relationships with clinical teams and stakeholders to promote a culture of continuous improvement and patient safety.

About you:

You're an experienced health professional with strong clinical knowledge, excellent analytical skills and a passion for improving patient safety and quality of care. You will bring:

• Advanced clinical expertise and the ability to independently apply evidence-based practices.
• Experience in clinical incident investigation and analysis, including Root Cause Analysis (RCA) or other recognised incident analysis methodologies.
• Highly developed communication, report-writing and stakeholder engagement skills.
• The ability to lead and influence multidisciplinary teams and drive positive organisational change.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret data, identify trends and develop improvement strategies.
• A commitment to continuous improvement, collaboration and delivering safe, patient-centred care.

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What we can offer you:

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 better together.