Patient Safety Officer

1. Possess an undergraduate degree in health with significant recent clinical experience in a health care setting or equivalent work experience in complex health care settings relevant to clinical governance.
2. Demonstrated understanding of the principles of clinical governance, patient safety and clinical quality improvement, including incident management processes
3. Demonstrated excellent leadership and interpersonal skills and ability to act as a professional adviser to senior clinicians and managers and proven capacity to foster shared objectives and manage multi-disciplinary groups
4. Demonstrated understanding of person-centred care, and an ability to model and promote behaviours in line with NSW Ministry of Health and WSLHD values (Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment).
5. Demonstrated high level communication skills in interacting effectively with clinical staff, senior managers and external stakeholders, including effective written communication skills.
6. Demonstrated ability to innovate and to apply the principles of quality improvement, to develop and monitor improvement plans and support other clinicians participating in quality improvement projects
7. Demonstrated skills in providing education to staff through a variety of methods and modalities
8. Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and as a part of a multidisciplinary team managing competing priorities in a timely and efficient manner to ensure patient safety and clinical quality objectives are achieved

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Applications Close: 20th June 2019