Patient Safety Coordinator

Permanent 0.6 FTE (24hrs per week) opportunity At Health New Zealand-Southern, it's truly a team effort- we are looking for someone who has experience and a passion for patient safety to join our team. The role is 0.6 FTE permanent position, working across the district. About the opportunity Key areas of focus are: Working with other team members to provide coordination and role modelling in the Adverse Event Learning programme including the incident management system looking at what is going well, and where opportunities for patient safety improvement are. Carrying out teaching of adverse event processes and building capability for undertaking reviews within services. Facilitation of some adverse event reviews, providing guidance to the team undertaking the review, and ensuring high quality reviews with appropriate recommendations and learning outcomes. Involved in and leading clinical patient safety improvement projects. Participation in the audit processes as required. The Quality & Clinical Governance Team enables consumers, clinicians, managers, and other staff to co-create a safe, equitable, accountable and continuously improving healthcare service – this is your opportunity to gain new skills and make your contribution to this valuable work. About you Our ideal candidate will have: A current health annual practicing certificate A relevant qualification in Quality Improvement Post- graduate qualification relevant to roles you have held previously Can learn and adapt quickly, is open and can demonstrate the ability to learn/grow/innovate/solution focused Is decisive, organised, a forward thinker, and pragmatic 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 Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities. #J-18808-Ljbffr