Patient Safety Officer

️ Lead high-impact patient safety strategy in tertiary care

Drive clinical governance and quality improvement outcomes

Collaborate across multidisciplinary hospital networks

Lead patient safety strategy, drive clinical governance, and improve outcomes across complex tertiary healthcare services.

Employment Type: Permanent Part Time

Position Classification: Health Manager Level 3

Remuneration: $132,236 - $150,222 per annum

Hours Per Week: 38

Location: Westmead Hospital

Where you'll be working

You will be based at Westmead Hospital, one of NSW’s leading tertiary referral hospitals, within Western Sydney Local Health District. The environment is fast-paced, highly collaborative, and deeply committed to delivering safe, high-quality, patient-centred care.

You’ll be joining a passionate clinical governance and patient safety community that values improvement, transparency, and innovation in healthcare delivery.

• Work within a complex, tertiary healthcare environment

• Engage with senior clinicians, managers and system leaders

• Be part of a culture focused on continuous quality improvement

• Contribute to district-wide patient safety initiatives

• Support a strong values-based healthcare system

What you'll be doing

As a Patient Safety Officer, you will provide expert leadership in patient safety and clinical quality, driving initiatives that strengthen care outcomes across the District.

• Lead and support patient safety strategy development and implementation

• Provide expert advice on clinical risk, safety and incident management

• Facilitate and contribute to clinical investigations and serious incident reviews

• Analyse safety data, identify trends, and develop risk mitigation strategies

• Deliver education and support capability building in patient safety and clinical governance

This role plays a critical part in strengthening a proactive safety culture, improving clinical systems, and ensuring lessons learned are embedded into practice across services.

How to Apply

Apply online by submitting your resume and addressing the criteria listed below by providing examples that demonstrate your ability before the closing date.

Selection Criteria

1. Possess an undergraduate degree in health with significant recent clinical experience in a health care setting or equivalent work experience in complex health care settings relevant to clinical governance.

2. Demonstrated understanding of the principles of clinical governance, patient safety and clinical quality improvement, including incident management processes.

3. Demonstrated excellent leadership and interpersonal skills and ability to act as a professional adviser to senior clinicians and managers and proven capacity to foster shared objectives and manage multi- disciplinary groups.

4. Experience in leading or implementing patient safety systems in line with MoH Incident Management Policy including ims+ incident management system, and Serious Adverse Event Reports (SAER) and other investigations.

5. Demonstrated high level communication skills in interacting effectively with clinical staff, senior managers and external stakeholders, including effective written communication skills.

6. Demonstrated ability to innovate and to apply the principles of quality improvement, to develop and monitor improvement plans and support other clinicians participating in quality improvement projects.

7. Demonstrated skills in providing education to staff through a variety of methods and modalities.

8. Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and as a part of a multidisciplinary team managing competing priorities in a timely and efficient manner to ensure patient safety and clinical quality objectives are achieved.

Requisition ID: REQ642391

Applications Close: 9th June 2026

Need more information ?

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• Review the detailed Position Description for insights into role requirements and criteria.

• Explore the selection process, employment checks, outcomes and notifications.

• For inquiries about the role, contact Summer Byrne, A/Director Safety & Quality, on ***email_hidden*** or 0436 459 022.

People with disabilities who meet the selection criteria are encouraged to apply; and where required, WSLHD will implement reasonable adjustment consistent with industry standard.

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply. Stepping Up aims to assist Aboriginal job applicants by providing information about applying for roles in NSW Health organisations. For more information, please visit https://www.steppingup.health.nsw.gov.au/ .

Westmead hospital car parking allocation model is changing. There is a waitlist for parking for new staff commencing at Westmead Hospital. This does not apply for staff with disability.

Please note: To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.

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