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Risk and Patient Safety Advisor

Bendigo Health
Bendigo, VIC
A$51.95-$63.41 p/h + Super + Salary Packaging
Healthcare & Medical → Management
Full-time
On-site

Posted 11 days ago


Bendigo Health

Work in an environment that offers:

  • Support for career progression and development
  • An ability to live and work in a vibrant regional setting
  • A dynamic and growing health service that embraces new technologies

The Position

Job Reference: 2418

Position Title: Risk and Patient Safety Advisor
Classification: Dependent upon qualifications
Salary per hour (exc. super): $51.95 - $63.41
Hours per fortnight: Up to 76
Employment Status: Ongoing Part Time or Full Time

Closing date: 09/06/2025

The Risk & Patient Safety Advisor facilitates best practice risk assessment and investigation frameworks to govern organisational risk management, with a particular emphasis on enterprise and consumer safety risk, risk theming, reporting, and development of recommendations for improvement, and staff training and support to embed positive risk culture and accountability.

Working with Bendigo Health

Bendigo Health are a leader in regional health care, combining outstanding services with a strong education, training and personal development culture.

Created by our community in the 1850s, we have a long, proud history of delivering excellent care to our community.

Our organisation is diverse, welcoming and committed to delivering our vision of Excellent Care. Every Person, Every Time.

Bendigo Health has around 5000 staff and a catchment area covering a quarter of the size of Victoria. The three main campuses of Bendigo Health are in Bendigo, with many services extended to regional settings including areas such as Mildura, Echuca, Swan Hill, Kyneton and Castlemaine.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits for our staff, including:

  • Staff health and wellbeing programs
  • Career development and education opportunities
  • Generous salary packaging opportunities, to increase your take-home pay each fortnight
  • Flexible Working Arrangements
  • Use of staff gym and pool and access to other fitness facilities through fitness passport program

If successful for a position at Bendigo Health you must provide evidence of your full immunisation record as part of the on boarding process.

Your New Division

Quality and Risk provides leadership and support for quality, compliance, risk, patient safety, consumer experience and engagement and improvement and innovation across the organisation. The division has responsibility for overseeing the risk management framework and compliance to various accreditations and legislative requirements and to ensure improvements are undertaken through our responses to recommendations arising from assessments. There is a strong strategic and operational focus of promoting and advancing continuous improvement, partnering with consumers, and supporting the organisation to review incidents, data and systems to improve patient outcomes and efficiency of the business. The division collaboratively provides high quality clinical governance support and advice, both internally and when supporting health services in the Loddon Mallee Health Services Network.

Bendigo Region

Bendigo is one of Victoria's largest regional cities making it a great city to live and work in. Bendigo provides services for the region's population of over 320,000 and so the city offers excellent schools, shopping and cultural precincts, sporting facilities and various tertiary facilities. We can offer generous flexible working arrangements - giving you more time to enjoy the fantastic restaurants, beautiful parks, walking trails and wineries within our region.

Interested?

We'd love to hear from you! Please ensure that you attach a cover letter and an up-to-date copy of your resume.

Need more information? Please contact Jessica Denney, Risk and Patient Safety Manager on 03 5454 9083 for a confidential discussion.

Diversity and Inclusion

Bendigo Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and social inclusion and encourage people from a diverse cultural background, people with disabilities and or Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people to apply.

Position Description: HERE

Careers Video Reference: Bendigo Health Careers

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If you are an existing Bendigo Health employee, please ensure you apply with your Bendigo Health email address.


About Bendigo Health

Bendigo, VIC, Australia
Healthcare & Medical
1001-5000 employees

With more than 4500 staff and covering an area a quarter of the size of Victoria, Bendigo Health Care Group (commonly known as Bendigo Health) is an expanding regional health service offering the advantages of city life combined with the beauty and freedom that comes from living in a regional area.

We provide services in emergency, maternity, women’s health, medical imaging, pathology, rehabilitation, community services, residential aged care, mental health care, community dental, hospice/palliative care, cardiology, cancer services and renal dialysis to the people of the Loddon Mallee region.

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