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About the Role
This role involves delivering Risk Advisory Services through medical practitioner risk assessments, practice risk assessments, educational presentations, and written advice. You will play a critical role in strengthening patient safety, quality, and risk awareness across healthcare. This is an ideal opportunity to apply your knowledge of healthcare safety and quality in a member-owned insurance environment.
Responsibilities
- Conduct risk assessments with medical practitioners and practices, identifying areas of medico-legal risk and opportunities for improvement.
- Provide clear, practical and timely risk management advice, reports and recommendations.
- Support members to implement risk management recommendations and education.
- Provide medico-legal risk management insights and advice to teams across Avant.
- Develop and deliver presentations and educational content on medico-legal risk for doctors, practices and other audiences.
- Build trusted relationships with medical practitioners, practice leaders and internal and external stakeholders.
- Work collaboratively across Avant to deliver positive outcomes for members.
- Identify emerging risks and opportunities to enhance Risk Advisory Services.
- Contribute to service improvements that strengthen the quality, safety and professionalism of medical practice.
- Travel to member practices, regional centres and Avant locations as required.
Requirements
- Operational experience within a healthcare environment.
- Experience or exposure to clinical quality, safety and risk management.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to translate complex issues into clear and practical advice.
- Experience building relationships with medical practitioners, healthcare teams and senior stakeholders.
- Strong organisation and time-management skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
- A collaborative approach and experience working across teams to achieve organisational outcomes.
- Confidence presenting or educating professional audiences.
- Previous risk advisory experience would be advantageous.
- Experience as a health educator or healthcare leader in a tertiary hospital or medical practice environment would also be highly regarded.
- The role involves interstate and regional travel to support members, with occasional weekend or after-hours work associated with presentations or member support.
Skills
- Risk assessment
- Risk management advice
- Educational content development
- Presentation delivery
- Relationship building
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Influencing
- Time management
- Organisation
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Previous nursing, healthcare safety and quality or practice management experience
- Previous risk advisory experience
- Experience as a health educator or healthcare leader in a tertiary hospital or medical practice environment
Education Level
- Tertiary qualification in a health-related discipline is desirable
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid working through Avant’s Best of Both approach
- Learning, study and professional membership support, subject to policy
- Annual incentive opportunity for permanent employees
- Comprehensive wellbeing, insurance and employee discount offerings
About the Company
- Avant is Australia’s leading medical defence organisation, supporting medical professionals across Australia with products and services designed around their professional, personal and practice needs.
- As a mutual organisation owned by our members, they are at the centre of what we do.
- Avant also contributes to quality, safety and professionalism in medicine through advocacy, education and research.
Equal Opportunity
- Avant supports doctors so they can serve Australia's diverse communities. Having diversity in our workforce brings valuable perspectives and strengthens our ability to support healthcare professionals.
- We therefore welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, and those with caring responsibilities.
- Our inclusive workplace is somewhere everyone can succeed.