Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: $138,631 - $185,518
Grade: VPS 6
Occupation: Administration
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: VG/1889099
About the role:
The Manager, Knowledge and Capability Development leads the translation of system safety insights into meaningful, practical actions that build capability and improve outcomes across Victoria's health system. Sitting within Safer Care Victoria (SCV), this role plays a central part in ensuring that key learnings from sentinel events, risk monitoring, and sector feedback are not only understood—but embedded into clinical practice and improvement initiatives.
Working at the intersection of system learning and sector capability, the Manager is responsible for synthesising safety insights into system-wide recommendations, fact sheets, and safety alerts that support immediate and long-term improvements in care delivery. This includes monitoring the uptake and impact of recommendations at the health service level, identifying implementation barriers, and supporting the sector to strengthen safety capability.
The role also leads the delivery of education and training programs that build system literacy in safety science, systems thinking, human factors, and incident investigation. Through the development of practical tools, frameworks, and educational modules, the Manager helps embed core safety principles into clinical and operational practice across all levels of the health system.
The Manager works collaboratively across SCV—including with teams responsible for clinical governance, engagement, and analytics—to ensure that knowledge translation and capability-building activities are aligned with strategic system priorities. They also partner with health services, academic bodies, and professional organisations to ensure programs are evidence-informed, accessible, and responsive to the needs of boards, executives, clinicians, and quality leaders.
About us:
At the Victorian Department of Health we want a future where Victorians are the healthiest people in the world. A Victoria where our children and people thrive, our workplaces are productive and safe, and our communities are more connected.
We see it as our job to support Victorians to stay healthy and safe. And to deliver a world-class healthcare system that ensures every single Victorian can access safe, quality care that leads to better health outcomes for all.
About you:
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We are committed to developing and supporting a workforce that is well equipped and highly motivated to provide responsive and quality services to all Victorians. We continue to build an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity of backgrounds and differences to realise the potential of our employees for innovation and delivering services aimed at enhancing the lives of all Victorians. All roles can be worked flexibly and we encourage applications from Aboriginal people, people with disability, LGBTIQ+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Please contact us if you require any adjustments to participate in the recruitment process at [email protected]. For more information on our commitment to inclusion and diversity see inclusion and diversity at the Department of Health.
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