Community Champions Advisory Group Chair / Quality and Safety Subcommittee Consumer Representative Posted: 07/12/2024
Closing Date: 17/01/2025
Job Type: Fixed Term Contract
Location: Melbourne
Job Category: Volunteer
Who are we?
healthAbility, as the name suggests, plays a unique and valuable role in the health system. We work to address the root causes of vulnerability, prevent disease and promote lifelong health outcomes, empowering people in our community to live their best life.
Our role is also supporting people to self-manage long-term health conditions, such as diabetes and mental health challenges, with multidisciplinary teams delivering community-based programs in a comfortable setting. We support people, including older adults and those with disabilities, to stay living at home longer and to live well in their community.
Our broad range of primary health services, care management, and in-home and community support services can be tailored to individual needs, with major hubs in Box Hill and Eltham, allowing for local service delivery in the Eastern and North Eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
Why work with us?
Although our clients are at the heart of what we do, the wellbeing of our employees is just as important. When joining healthAbility's supportive, kind, caring, and ethical culture, you will be welcomed by multi-disciplinary teams passionate about the health and wellbeing of clients and communities, from prevention through to specialist care. We embrace this passion and are values-driven, offering careers with meaning in environments that are flexible, evolving, creative, and connected.
healthAbility is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We promote a workplace that actively seeks to include, welcome, and value the unique contributions of all people. This means we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disabilities, LGBTIQ+ individuals, and those from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply for this job, with age being no barrier.
Job Description The CCAG is an engagement forum that enables healthAbility to partner with clients and consumers in the planning, design, delivery, measurement, and evaluation of healthAbility's services. The Chair of the CCAG is also a Consumer Representative member of the Q&S.
The Q&S ensures high standards of care and safety by monitoring outcomes, guiding best practices, and facilitating continuous improvement. The Consumer Representative on the Q&S is responsible for championing the consumer voice, representing healthAbility's ongoing partnership with consumers to ensure accurate representation at the highest levels of the organization's governance structure.
Desired Skills and Experience 3 must-haves include:
Experience chairing and facilitating meetings and governance forums A strong interest in contributing to quality health outcomes for the community Ability to champion the voice of diverse consumers #J-18808-Ljbffr