Regional Quality Advisor

Infinite Aged Care is a progressive residential aged care provider with 17 established facilities across Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia & soon to be Victoria boasting over 30 years’ experience in the sector!! With its operational head office located on the Gold Coast and over 2,000 employees nationally our company’s core mission is to #MakeAgedCareGreat for all our residents, their families, our employees, and the communities in which we operate by committing to delivering consistent high-quality care, inclusive cultures and best in class operations every day!

Our Opportunity!

Reporting to the National Clinical Governance Manager the role of Regional Quality Advisor is responsible for the maintenance & roll-out of continuous improvements across our high-quality governance and risk systems that supports effective decision making across our operations. The primary accountability of the Advisor is to monitor Infinite’s governance standards, tools, and frameworks to drive a culture of best practice in corporate governance and risk knowledge sharing.

In summary this position will:

• Work across our 5 Aged Care Facilities is South Australia - Christies Beach, Hahndorf, Kilburn, Klemzig and Gilles Plains
• Support the implementation, monitoring and review of the Quality Strategy, Quality and Governance Framework and Quality plans in line with the company’s objectives.
• Support development and delivery of quality scorecards/dashboards by working with frontline clinical staff to develop appropriate quality metrics and indicators to promote continuous improvement in the quality of patient care.
• Support the organisation to meet regulatory requirements in relation to corporate and clinical quality management.
• Review and interpret new national guidance and legislation relating to Quality Improvement and identify local implementation for the Company.
• Support the Companies policy management processes, including compliance and governance.
• Provide expert advice, information and support to senior managers, clinicians and committees on matters relating to quality and compliance.
• Drive a culture of best practice in corporate governance and risk across the organisation.

About You

You are a passionate Registered Nurse with a strong focus for clinical governance, ideally in aged care. If you have NDIS quality assurance experience that would be a bonus! We like to live all our values but strive for excellence in this space of all things risk, compliance, and governance. 

You will also:

• Be a Registered Nurse with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Have advanced knowledge of the Aged Care industry, relevant legislation, regulations, standards, and industry trends.
• Demonstrated experience in quality, risk, and governance.
• Have a comprehensive understanding of the Aged Care Common Standards, Disability Services Standards and NDIS, Human Services Quality Framework, Aged Care Accreditation and Quality Agency, and a sound knowledge of, and sensitivity to, the range of issues impacting upon vulnerable people and their support networks.
• Have demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders including service users, families, co-agencies, and funding bodies.
• Have a valid Australian drivers’ licence.

Who are we?

We are a rapidly growing national residential aged care provider of quality individualised care to ageing residents.

As a collective team, we work hard every day to create a home away from home for our residents, their loved ones, and our staff. Our residents sit at the heart of everything we do, and we know without a doubt that happy, engaged staff results in first class acre outcomes. We do whatever we can to help our team feel engaged with and fulfilled by the work they do and the people they are around each day.

To learn more about Infinite’s journey navigate to our company page : Aged Care Provider - Redefining a New Generation of Residential Care (infin8care.com.au)

Benefits - Why work for us?

• Fitness Passport.
• Career growth opportunities within a strong mentoring team culture.
• Access to in-house and online training programs - FREE to all employees.
• Supportive, positive team environment with a strong caring work ethic.
• Companywide safety-first workplaces for our residents, families and staff.
• Positive wellbeing, fun and engaging team / shift activities.
• Access to family friendly benefits like our EAP and Flare (employee discounts).
• Work-Rite Micro professional development FREE to all employees.

If you would like to know more about us or this position before applying, then please reach out to our recruitment specialist managing this assignment – Victoria victoria.mulrin@infin8care.com.au

Infinite Care accepts the Ausmed Passport, which is a free, digital certificate for the Australian aged care workforce that recognises their completion of eight, sector-wide, core mandatory training topics