Job description
Where excellence meets opportunity – discover your next chapter with cohealth.
- Full time, ongoing role
- Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
- Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income
So why cohealth?
cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier’s Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth’s 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.
Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.
About the role
The position of Quality Improvement Lead is a key leadership position that works cross organisationally to drive cohealths centralised systems for continuous quality improvement. This role will work in partnership with key stakeholders within the Services Networks, Our Quality Team and client experience coworkers to significantly evolve cohealth’s approach to continuous quality improvement (CQI). The role of Quality Improvement Lead will sit within the Quality team and report to the Senior Manager Quality and Continuous Improvement.
Your duties include:
- Lead the development and ongoing management of cohealth’s system of Continuous Quality Improvement
- Design systems and tools to ensure quality improvements at the program level are planned, reported and monitored utilising standardised tools and processes
- Work with the network directors to set agreed annual performance targets for improvement
- Increase the understanding and capability of response leaders in processes for driving improvement in quality and safety
- Create opportunities for quality improvement learnings to be shared across the organisation and externally as appropriate
What cohealth offers:
- Salary packaging to suit you – tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here.
- Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
- We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)
Our ideal candidate:
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a quality improvement/management role within a health care setting
- A qualification or certification in improvement methodology (IHI improvement science, lean six sigma etc)
- Demonstrated experience successfully leading improvement initiatives.
- Experience working within measurable and effective organisation wide Continuous Quality Improvement methodologies
- A demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate successfully with individuals and teams (at all levels including senior executives and funders), verbally and written, including supporting presentations and facilitation workshops.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Check, a Working With Children Check (complete a Pre-Employment Declaration Form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses).
Application Process
Click on apply now to be directed to our careers page. You will be asked to upload your CV/ resume and Cover Letter. We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received.
This campaign will close on the mentioned date at 10.00 PM.
If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Corinne Rice [email protected], using the subject line: Quality Improvement Lead enquiry via EthicalJobs.
Within your cover letter, please include a response to the key selection criteria.
Ref code: 6652856.