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Do you possess extensive expertise as a Quality and Compliance Officer, showcasing exceptional clinical knowledge and auditing experience, coupled with highly refined skills in time management, communication, and IT?

We are looking for a Quality and Compliance Officer to join our team. Candidates for this opportunity should be Registered Nurses. While this is a full-time work from home (WFH) position, regular intrastate and interstate travel will be necessary to visit our facilities located in regional and remote areas of Tasmania, Victoria, and NSW. This is a 6-month contract with possibility of permanency.

The Position:

The role of a Quality and Compliance Officer involves offering support and assistance to the Quality Manager in ensuring the efficient monitoring of compliance functions and the implementation of various quality-related initiatives.

Requirements of the Role:

• Undertake a range of audits against the accreditation standards related to residential aged care.
• Work collaboratively with the Chief Quality and Risk Officer in identifying areas for continuous improvement to support quality and compliance.
• Work collaboratively with the Chief Quality and Risk Officer in the development of projects to support quality and compliance.
• Assist and support the Chief Quality and Risk Officer in the development and implementation of best practice policy and process.
• Develop and maintain a high level working knowledge of the electronic clinical support systems.
• Assist and support the Chief Quality and Risk Officer in developing, conveying and delivering on individual and organisational plans for continuous improvement.
• Maintain documented evidence of the organisations Quality Management Systems across all sites.
• Risk identification and mitigation.
• Trending and analysis.
• Preparation for external regulator visits including reaccreditation.
• Assistance with Gap Analysis and on-site support.
• Education including Quality related education as required by Facility or State.
• Oversight and support of clinical practice/medication practice.
• Attendance at internal and external meetings – as required by the business or at the direction of Chief Quality and Risk Officer.
• Attendance at announced/unannounced commission visits as needed.
• Care Manager support.
• Orientation of new management team members.
• Understand, comply with and report in line with the Serious Incident Reporting Scheme (SIRS).
• Oversight of facilities to ensure compliance that is delivered within the framework of Respect’s policies and procedures, legislative requirements, and meet the relevant service standards.
• Any other task as directed by the Chief Quality and Risk Officer.

Essential:

• Successful completion of a Bachelor of Nursing or equivalent.
• Current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
• High level ability to utilise information management and computer systems.
• Working knowledge of the requirements of the Aged Care Standards, Specified Care and Service Principles of the Aged Care Act, Documentation Standards, Residents Rights, Aged Care Funding Instrument and other relevant legislation, regulations and codes of practices.
• Sound communication skills.
• NDIS Worker Screening certification.

Desirable:

• Formal qualification in quality management frameworks.

To be considered for employment with Respect, each candidate must satisfy the legislative requirements of Aged Care Worker Screening to ensure suitability to work in the aged care industry.

• Competitive salary and entitlements.
• Pay incentives including not-for-profit salary packaging.
• Meaningful work in a purpose-driven organisation.
• A healthy and positive workplace culture.
• Learning, development, and growth opportunities.
• Discounted private health insurance.

Our purpose:

To care for the elderly in our communities in an environment of respect, value, and belonging.

Our Values:
Respect - Treat all people with fairness and dignity
Care -  Look after and protect the elderly, and each other
Teamwork -  Encourage, cooperate, and build trust
Courage -  Do the right thing, even when it’s difficult
Integrity -  Be open, honest, and trustworthy
Innovation -  Think differently to solve problems.
Excellence -  Drive quality to continuously improve.

This position is responsible for supporting Quality Assurance for Claims. You will provide claims administrative support services to other parts of the business within specified guidelines and may be directly supervised.

In addition to this the Claims Quality Assurance Officer will provide ongoing file maintenance and administrative support to Quality Assurance Managers, Specialists and Consultants as well as supporting the overall quality assurance process.

In this role you will:

• Provides Claims Quality Assurance administrative support service within specified guidelines and TAL values.
• Responds to QA enquiries where basic analysis and the provision of information is needed in order to resolve the issue, escalating where necessary.
• Records all information accurately on appropriate systems.
• Responsible for spotting opportunities for service and process improvement and feeding suggestions to manager.
• Offers support to team members, sharing learning and best practice in order to contribute to overall team effectiveness.
• Understand the responsibility of TAL in relation to the Privacy law and compliance guidelines and execute QA within these laws and guidelines.
• Proactively raise and support rectification of compliance breaches.
• Produce high-quality, accurate and compliant work.
• Ensure adherence to regulatory and TAL’s policies and procedures.
• Raise potential risk issues in daily operations across systems, policies and procedures that may result in TAL being exposed to financial instability, fraud, not fulfilling regulatory requirements or litigation including behaviours that may be discriminatory or undermine TAL’s core values.
• Collaborates with others to ensure that the customer gets a flawless product or service.