Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Salary range: Salary $141-$161k + super + salary packaging
Hours: 38 Hour Week
Location: Hybrid (Richmond Office)
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Contact: Matthew Soo, Chief Risk and Assurance Officer on 03 8416 7772 or msoo@mercy.com.au
Where there's life, there's Mercy.
Where there's care, there's You.
Through the battles and the breakthroughs, we're there. Where will you be?
For over a century, our incredible teams have provided care for people at every stage of life. Across our aged care homes, hospitals and research facilities, and across numerous cities and towns, we're on a journey to keep growing our impact for the next hundred years.
As a for-purpose organisation with over 10,000 dedicated, compassionate people, we continue to offer more services and deeper care than ever before. With Mercy, you'll have the chance to make an impact and gain experience that's hard to find elsewhere.
At Mercy Health, it's all about taking what we have and making it better.
To do that, we need you.
Join us as at Mercy Health, and help our teams deliver even greater outcomes.
About the opportunity
Are you ready to lead and shape the future of risk management at Mercy Health? The Group Risk Manager role offers an exciting opportunity to drive the Enterprise Risk function for a large and complex healthcare organisation. You'll play a pivotal role in developing the frameworks, processes, improvements and partnerships needed to protect and advance Mercy Health's mission.
This role provides the chance to work across all aspects of risk management - from staff education and risk assessments to enhancing systems and maintaining risk assurance maps. You will be a trusted representative who will provide risk and assurance information to influence decisions at all tiers of the organisation.
Reporting to the Chief Risk and Assurance Officer, you will build trusted relationships with the senior leadership and risk peers across the healthcare sector, fostering a culture of resilience and proactive risk management. As a leader, you'll also mentor and develop the Senior Risk Advisor, shaping the next generation of risk professionals.
If you are passionate about making a tangible impact in healthcare and thrive in challenging environments, this is the role for you. Step into a role where your expertise truly matters and help safeguard the future of Mercy Health.
Key accountabilities
* Co-design the Enterprise Risk Strategy and Improvement Plan and Risk Management Framework with guidance from the Chief Risk and Assurance Officer.
* Manage a large and complex organisation-wide annual work program, including staff education, risk assessment, reporting, and risk advisory and assurance work.
* Collaborate with quality, safety and compliance specialists in other teams to provide robust risk and assurance information to support senior leaders make big decisions.
* Represent the Enterprise Risk team at all levels of the organisation from projects up to board.
* Supervise and develop the Senior Risk Advisor.
What you'll bring
It takes a special kind of person to work in healthcare or community services. If you are genuinely interested in helping others, then you'll find you can build something here and find your place in a team of 10,000 hearts.
To thrive in this role, you will have:
* Demonstrated experience (5+ years) with responsibility for implementation and improvement of risk management frameworks (or similar).
* Demonstrated experience in constructively engaging and influencing senior organisational leaders.
* Experience with enterprise risk management software (e.g. Camms.Risk).
* Commitment to the mission and values of Mercy Health and Catholic Health - this includes a requirement to be highly principled and embrace the values of Mercy Health.
* Ability to analyse and synthesise large amounts of information to identify risks and opportunities.
* Ability to prepare and present complex reports and training packages.
Qualifications and requirements:
* Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline (health, aged care, law, commerce)
* Desirable: experience in either aged care or health care industries
* Occasional travel to Mercy Health operational sites is a requirement of this role.
You must also:
Comply with mandatory vaccination and compliance (e.g. NDIS, Police Check) requirements as directed by State and Territory public health orders.
Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare?
Join us and make a meaningful difference in people's lives - and your career.
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Please contact us if you would like to find out more or communicate any requirements to ensure we provide you with a fair and equitable interview and selection process.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples, traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, on traditional lands of the Kulin Nation and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture.
We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present.
The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We're proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.
Desired Skills and Experience
Risk Management