Welcome to St John of God Health Care

St John of God Health Care is one of the largest private providers of health care services in Australia, employing more than 16,000 employees (caregivers). We operate 26 hospitals and services comprising more than 3,300 hospital beds, including home nursing, disability services and social outreach programs.

As a Catholic, not-for-profit group, we invest all profits to the communities we serve by updating and expanding our facilities and technology; expanding existing services and developing and acquiring new services; and providing Social Outreach services to people experiencing disadvantage to improve health and wellbeing.

Your role at St John of God Health Care

You will provide support to the Manager Maternity Services to plan and deliver priority quality initiatives. Primarily you will participate in stakeholder engagement with Maternity clinicians across multiple SJGHC services in both regional and metropolitan settings and will be responsible for centralised auditing, development of resources and in person clinical support of maternity units during implementation phases.

The Position

• Provide Subject Matter Expert (SME) input into the development of clinical audits related to Obstetric and Neonatal Services.
• Conduct centralised auditing across multiple Maternity services related to key controls.
• Compile regular reports related to the analysis of audit outcomes and opportunities for improvement to enhance patient safety.
• Develop pre-implementation/ post implementation resources to support Hospitals with adoption of quality improvement actions.
• Provide SME input with the review and development of organisational policy and procedure that supports practice improvement.
• Provide SME input to the management of routine upgrades to clinical systems that support the provision of excellence in clinical care.
• Assist with the development of action plans and implementation targets across the calendar year to assist with meeting deadlines.
• Collaborate with individual Hospital management/ Midwifery teams to establish local processes that enable successful implementation of quality improvement actions.
• Provide short term in-person clinical support to individual Hospitals during implementation phases to assist with imbedding practice change.
• Facilitate caregiver development, including preceptoring, coaching, mentoring and achieving competencies.
• Participate in Manager Meetings as well as relevant committees and working parties.

You will have demonstrated leadership experience within the Midwifery specialty in a Clinical Midwife/ ANUM, Learning and Development Midwife, Clinical Midwifery Specialist or Clinical Audit/ Quality and Risk officer position, along with demonstrated experience with planning, developing, delivering and evaluating practice improvement projects within the acute hospital setting

To succeed, you will hold AHPRA registration as a Nurse/Midwife or Midwife.

Above all, people will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.

We can offer you

• Novated leasing
• work related expenses
• self-education and
• additional superannuation

• Salary $124,196 per annum (pro rata for part time) plus 12% Superannuation
• Permanent part time position working 15.2 hours a week, with days of work open to negotiation
• Located at Melbourne CBD Collins St office, with travel to our regional Hospitals as required
• 40% work from home option
• Salary packaging up to $18,550 per FTB year on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:
  

• A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave and well-being programs
• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance
• Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Close to public transport

For enquiries please contact Zoe Islip, Manager Maternity Services on 0409 986 558

If suitable candidates are identified, shortlisting and interviews may commence prior to the advert closing.

At St John of God Health Care, we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Our commitment is to create a safe and nurturing environment for all children and vulnerable individuals in our care and proactively take steps to protect them from abuse, ensuring their safety and well-being.

Our inclusive culture fosters an environment that is respectful and secure, welcoming and accessible, and unified through our diverse community.

Unsolicited applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted at this time.