Employment Type: Temporary Full Time, 38 hours per week, until July 2026
Location: Liverpool Hospital, Eastern Campus
Position Classification: Health Manager Level 3
Remuneration: $2,436.82 - $2,768.26 per week
Requisition ID: REQ597757
Application Close Date: 24/08/2025
Interview Date Range: 27/08/2025 - 03/09/2025
Contact Details: Nisha Berthon-Jones | nisha.berthonjones@health.nsw.gov.au

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Are you passionate about driving high standards in clinical research? South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) is seeking an experienced and dynamic quality leader to oversee and elevate the quality management framework across its Clinical Trials Units.
In this senior role, you’ll lead the development and implementation of quality management systems, conduct audits and accreditation processes, and ensure compliance with national and regulatory standards. Your expertise will support risk management, patient safety, and continuous improvement initiatives, helping clinicians deliver safe, effective, and reliable care.
You’ll collaborate closely with executives, quality teams, and research stakeholders, including the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research. As a strategic driver of change, you’ll oversee staff credentialling, guide clinical risk registers, and provide education and training in quality improvement and accreditation.
If you’re ready to champion excellence in clinical trial quality—and make a lasting impact on health outcomes—this could be the perfect opportunity.

TRANSFORMING YOUR EXPERIENCE

Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.

TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR PERMANENT APPOINTMENT TO A POSITION IN NSW HEALTH, YOU MUST HAVE AN AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP OR PERMANENT AUSTRALIAN RESIDENCY.

At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of ️ Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander ️ background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.
SWSLHD is committed to driving a child safe culture that upholds children and young people’s rights. We strive to ensure children and young people feel safe, supported and included in their care. Existing staff of SWSLHD and those seeking employment are required to take the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people seriously while taking action to keep them safe from harm and abuse.
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To provide strategic leadership for quality, training, and credentialing across all clinical trials units across the SWSLHD.
The position is responsible for developing and promoting a clinical trials quality improvement program, fostering a culture of quality, risk and patient safety, and ensuring compliance with ICH Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, National Clinical Trials Governance Framework and other relevant regulatory frameworks.
Key focus areas include facilitating and implementing processes to ensure research is conducted in alignment with the above regulatory requirements and the coordination of training and credentialling activities to enhance staff competency and adherence to regulatory standards.
The position provides district-wide leadership in clinical quality and safety for clinical trials, overseeing National Accreditation processes and advising clinical trials staff and executive leadership at SWSLHD.
In partnership with the Clinical Governance Unit at SWSLHD this role ensures the achievement of quality and safety outcomes. The manager will ensure all personnel conducting clinical trials meet regulatory and legislative requirements.