Job description
- Full-Time, Fixed-Term until March 2026
- 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 Improvement Lead – Allied Health is an integral leadership position that works in collaboration with staff across cohealth to identify, drive, monitor and evaluate improvement across the designated area.
This role will work in partnership with key stakeholders within the program area and will also play a role in the development of confidence and capability across all staff groups on improvement methodology and supporting a culture where continuous improvement is seen as a role for all staff across cohealth.
Your duties include:
- Lead the development and support local quality improvement initiatives
- Ensure quality improvements are planned, reported and monitored utilising standardised tools and processes
- Work with Operational Leads to identify and key performance criteria for improvement work
- Create opportunities for quality improvement learnings to be shared across the directorate and wider organisation
What cohealth offers:
- Exciting Parental leave benefits
- cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
- Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
- 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
- Novated Leasing available
- 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:
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in a health-related field
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a quality improvement/management role within a health care setting
- Demonstrated experience successfully leading improvement initiatives
- Experience working within measurable and effective organisation wide Continuous Quality Improvement methodologies
Application Process
Interested in this position, then 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.
If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Manaswita Udayagiri, [email protected] using the subject line: Improvement Lead – Allied Health enquiry via EthicalJobs.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC), a Working With Children Check (WWCC), complete a Pre-Employment Declaration Form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses).
Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination
Ref code: 6703829.