Patient Safety & Quality Champion

Queensland Government; Cairns Regional; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service is advertising a Patient Safety and Quality Officer role in Cairns, Queensland. The position focuses on reviewing clinical incidents, improving safety culture, and ensuring alignment with national standards to support high-quality patient care.

You'll engage with clinicians, facilitate targeted training, collate improvement evidence, and assist with reporting requirements for CHHHS and Queensland Health.

Responsibilities

• Review SAC1 clinical incidents to determine what went wrong, why it happened and what recommendations can be put in place to prevent the incident happening again.
• Facilitate relevant service group / speciality team training about patient safety and quality and provide advice to improve safety culture, processes, outcomes and experiences through ongoing engagement with clinicians.
• Collate and report evidence of improvement against the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards and enable the fulfilment of CHHHS and Queensland Health reporting requirements.

Job description

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service is advertising a Patient Safety and Quality Officer role in Cairns, Queensland. The position focuses on reviewing clinical incidents, improving safety culture, and ensuring alignment with national standards to support high-quality patient care.

You'll engage with clinicians, facilitate targeted training, collate improvement evidence, and assist with reporting requirements for CHHHS and Queensland Health.