Compliance Navigator

Yarram & District Health Service; Yarram; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging up to $9,000 p.a.

Meals/Entertainment benefit up to $2,¬

Free onsite gym access

Cafe onsite

Professional development opportunities

Beautiful rural location

Job summary

Yarram & District Health Service is seeking a Compliance Navigator to drive accreditation readiness across clinical, aged care, primary and corporate services. The role fosters collaboration to interpret standards, maintain evidence, and progress compliance actions.

The position emphasizes enabling coordination, monitoring and continuous improvement, with accountable managers and Directors retaining overall responsibility for compliance.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in quality, compliance, accreditation, governance, health administration or a related field.
• Strong organisational and documentation skills.
• Ability to interpret standards, policies and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to coordinate multiple compliance activities and deadlines.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate ongoing accreditation readiness across services and maintain standards and evidence expectations.
• Translate standards into operational requirements and maintain workplans and readiness assessments.
• Coordinate preparation for accreditation assessments, audits and regulatory visits.
• Maintain a structured register of compliance obligations and monitor against legislation and standards.
• Identify emerging compliance risks and undertake scheduled reviews and spot checks.

Skills

Quality management

Regulatory compliance

Documentation

Governance

Stakeholder collaboration

Job description

Yarram & District Health Service – Yarram VIC

The Compliance Navigator supports Yarram & District Health Service to maintain a systematic, organisation-wide approach to regulatory compliance, accreditation, quality assurance and continuous improvement. The position works collaboratively across clinical, aged care, primary/community care and corporate services to assist managers and staff to understand applicable standards, identify compliance requirements, maintain appropriate evidence and ensure identified actions are progressed and closed. The Compliance Navigator is primarily an enabling, monitoring and coordination role. Operational managers and Directors remain accountable for compliance within their areas of responsibility. A key objective of the position is to move YDHS from periodic preparation for accreditation and external review toward a model of continuous compliance and accreditation readiness.

Key responsibilities

Coordinate ongoing accreditation readiness across relevant YDHS services and maintain an understanding of applicable accreditation standards, regulatory requirements and evidence expectations.

Assist departments to interpret standards and translate them into practical operational requirements, and maintain accreditation workplans, evidence registers and readiness assessments.

Coordinate preparation for accreditation assessments, audits, reviews and regulatory visits, and assist managers to identify and address gaps prior to external review.

Maintain a structured register of relevant compliance obligations and support monitoring against legislation, standards, policies, contractual obligations and Department requirements.

Assist Directors and managers to identify emerging compliance risks and undertake scheduled compliance reviews and spot checks where appropriate.

Support managers to develop and implement quality improvement activities and maintain appropriate registers of quality improvement initiatives and outcomes.

Support the development and maintenance of internal audit and compliance monitoring schedules, and coordinate evidence and documentation required for internal and external audits.

Support departments to maintain current policies, procedures, guidelines and supporting documentation, and monitor review dates and advise responsible managers of upcoming or overdue reviews.

Establish and maintain structured repositories of accreditation and compliance evidence and assist departments to identify appropriate evidence demonstrating compliance.

Monitor relevant changes to accreditation standards, aged care requirements, health service standards, Department of Health requirements, relevant legislation and regulations, and assess the operational implications of changes.

About you

Demonstrated experience in quality, compliance, accreditation, governance, health administration or a related field.

Strong organisational and documentation skills.

Demonstrated ability to interpret standards, policies and regulatory requirements.

Ability to coordinate multiple compliance activities and competing deadlines.

Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with managers and multidisciplinary teams.

High level of attention to detail.

Ability to identify issues and appropriately escal...

Experience within a Victorian public health service (desirable).

Knowledge of relevant healthcare accreditation frameworks (desirable).

About us

The Yarram and District Health Service (YDHS) is based in Yarram, 220 kilometers south east of Melbourne on the South Gippsland Highway in rural Victoria. We provide our community with Acute Inpatient services, Dialysis, Urgent Care, Aged Care, Respite Care, Primary Health, Community Services and an Integrated Health Care Centre. Our consumers and community are at the core of every decision we make. YDHS want to attract and retain the best staff to provide an exceptional service to our community. We promote and develop opportunities for people to contribute to and encourage innovation, leadership and collaboration. We are committed making YDHS a Centre of Excellence in everything we do.

What’s on offer

• Diverse service.
• Salary packaging up to $9,000 per annum.
• Meals/Entertainment benefit up to $2,650 per annum.
• Free access to a brand-new state of the art, onsite gymnasium.
• Brand new onsite Cafe.
• Experienced and friendly team to offer support at all times.
• Access to continuing professional development to improve skills and knowledge.
• Beautiful location - Yarram is a major hub for surrounding areas.