Quality Coordinator

New Zealand Government; Whanganui; On-site; NZD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora in Whanganui invites applications for a Quality Improvement Co-ordinator. The role focuses on ensuring patient safety by improving hospital systems and processes, with varied daily tasks from adverse event reviews to developing new quality initiatives.

You will work with a multidisciplinary clinical team, bringing postgraduate quality improvement expertise and a passion for safer care in a permanent 0.9 FTE position.

Qualifications

• Experience leading quality improvement programmes in a NZ clinical setting.
• Postgraduate qualifications in quality improvement advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality improvement programmes and assurance processes.
• Coordinate adverse event reviews and implement system improvements.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams within Health New Zealand.

Skills

Quality improvement

Project coordination

Education

Postgraduate qualifications in quality improvement

Job description

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora - Whanganui Patient Safety, Quality and Innovation Permanent, 0.9 FTE

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is committed to building a health system that serves all New Zealanders.

About the Role

Do you have a passion to keep our patients safe while in hospital? Then this is the role for you. Quality improvement is around assurance and improving systems, As a QI coordinator you will have different work each day dependant of the demand and the health team you are working with. While it may be completing an adverse event review, it could also be creating a new way to improve something at the hospital.

About the Team/Service/ Location

The patient safety team have portfolios that cover infection prevention, family violence, education in protection of children, mental health quality team, mortality and morbidity reviewer, patient quality coordinators, document control, customer relations, and privacy.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Experience in leading quality improvement programmes in a NZ clinical setting
• Post graduate qualifications in quality improvement advantageous

Working at Health New Zealand Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community.

We welcome applications from our diverse MāoriPacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.