Description:
The Manager, Medicines Safety and Quality is responsible for managing the program of work associated with the development of national policy content, guidance, information, and communications about key quality use of medicines issues with a focus on primary care. The Manager provides oversight and management of a team that reviews and analyses emerging evidence on the safe and quality use of medicines, provides recommendations and guidance on best practice, convenes events to share knowledge on safe and quality use of medicines, and publishes safety and quality alerts on critical medicines issues. The Manager supports progress of projects and advice for the Commission’s Executive in consultation with the Director, Medicines Safety and Infection Prevention and Control (MSIPC).The Manager works closely with the Senior Medication Safety Clinical Advisors and the Senior Project Manager, Medication Safety, the MedicineInsight Analytics team, the Digital Integrated Systems and eHealth teams, Communications, and the Partnerships with Consumers team. The Manager supports the achievement of Commission priorities and programs regarding the safe and quality use of medicines in health care.
The Manager also supports the Commission’s work to build and maintain strategic and effective linkages across Commonwealth, state and territory governments, the private and public acute and primary healthcare sectors and non-government healthcare organisations.
Duties of the EL2 Program Manager will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- With the Director, MSIPC lead the planning and conceptualisation of strategies and national guidance to support safe and quality use of medicines.
- Provide program leadership by managing and coordinating the team that supports planning, development, and implementation of the safe and quality use of medicines work program.
- Manage the development and maintenance of interventions, guidance, tools, and resources to support the safe and quality use of medicines.
- Collaborate with Commission teams to ensure alignment with other work programs, strategic priorities and internal and external communications.
- Prepare high-quality written reports, briefs, and other documents for a range of audiences on complex healthcare issues.
- Promote the program’s priorities and work through a range of communications, public relations and appropriate fora as required by the Director, MSIPC and the Commission Executive.
- Undertake project management activities including project planning and documentation, implementation, monitoring and reporting on progress, providing recommendations about managing risk, and identifying and resolving problems.
- Maintenance of current knowledge of strategic and clinical issues related to safe and quality use of medicines and investigate how they may be addressed by the Commission.
- Consult with experts and stakeholders including development of consultation strategies and coordination of formal consultation processes to achieve the objectives of the Commission.
- Liaise, and foster productive working relationships with clinical organisations, consumer groups, government agencies, industry bodies and contractors.
- Provide secretariat support to the work of relevant committees and expert groups including the Health Services Medication Expert Advisory Group and the Medication Safety Outlook Committee.
The successful candidate will have:
- An extensive and comprehensive understanding of Australia’s healthcare system, including sound understanding of current health care safety and quality issues and standards relevant to medicines.
- Excellent policy development and project management experience relevant to quality use of medicines.
- Highly developed analytical skills and conceptual ability, with the demonstrated capacity for sound judgement and innovative problem-solving.
- Highly developed oral and written communication skills including demonstrated ability to prepare high quality documents and submissions, present to a range of audiences, and explain complex technical and clinical issues simply.
- Demonstrated highly developed interpersonal skills, in particular, an excellent ability to manage a team and to consult and negotiate with a wide variety of complex stakeholders.
- A CV summarising your relevant experience and qualifications.
- A two-page cover letter broadly addressing your suitability against both the position description and selection criteria.
Candidates must be Australian citizens to be eligible to apply.
Please note: All staff are required to provide evidence of a COVID-19 primary vaccination course, which is the first two doses of a Therapeutic Goods Administration approved or recognised COVID-19 vaccine.
Questions about the role can be directed to Kim Stewart (02) 9126 3660.
Closing date for applications is midnight, Wednesday 8 May 2024 .