Quality and Compliance Partner

Work in an environment that offers: 

• Generous annual leave entitlements
• Salary Packaging to boost your take home pay
• An opportunity to make a real impact with a trusted name - Bendigo Health

The Position 

Job Reference: 3308

Position Title: Quality and Compliance Partner
Classification: Dependent on qualifications
Salary per hour (exc. super): Dependent on qualifications
Hours per fortnight: 76
Employment Status: Fixed Term Full Time

Closing date: 10/12/2025

The Quality and Compliance Partner (QCP) provides expert guidance and support to clinical and operational leaders across Bendigo Health to strengthen capability in delivering safe, high-quality care in alignment with the organisation’s clinical governance framework. The role supports ongoing accreditation readiness and fosters a culture of continuous quality improvement that extends beyond compliance.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and supporting gap analyses against NSQHS Standards, Clinical Care Standards, and other relevant regulatory requirements.

• Developing audits and supporting data collection, analysis, and reporting.

• Using data to identify patient safety risks, and assisting teams to design, implement and evaluate improvement plans.

Each QCP partners with designated departments and teams, in addition to holding organisation-wide portfolio responsibilities. Working collaboratively with fellow QCPs and key stakeholders, the role ensures consistency in approach, shared expertise, and coordinated management of demand across the organisation.

Working with Bendigo Health

Bendigo Health are a leader in regional health care, combining outstanding services with a strong education, training and personal development culture.

Created by our community in the 1850s, we have a long, proud history of delivering excellent care to our community.

Our organisation is diverse, welcoming and committed to delivering our vision of Excellent Care. Every Person, Every Time.

Bendigo Health has around 5000 staff and a catchment area covering a quarter of the size of Victoria. The three main campuses of Bendigo Health are in Bendigo, with many services extended to regional settings including areas such as Mildura, Echuca, Swan Hill, Kyneton and Castlemaine.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits for our staff, including: 

• Staff health and wellbeing programs
• Career development and education opportunities
• Generous salary packaging opportunities, to increase your take-home pay each fortnight
• Flexible Working Arrangements
• Use of staff gym and pool and access to other fitness facilities through fitness passport program

If successful for a position at Bendigo Health you must provide evidence of your full immunisation record as part of the on boarding process.

Your New Division

Quality and Risk provides leadership and support for quality, compliance, risk, patient safety, consumer experience and engagement and improvement and innovation across the organisation. The division has responsibility for overseeing the risk management framework and compliance to various accreditations and legislative requirements and to ensure improvements are undertaken through our responses to recommendations arising from assessments. There is a strong strategic and operational focus of promoting and advancing continuous improvement, partnering with consumers, and supporting the organisation to review incidents, data and systems to improve patient outcomes and efficiency of the business. The division collaboratively provides high quality clinical governance support and advice, both internally and when supporting health services in the Loddon Mallee Health Services Network.    

Bendigo Region

Bendigo is one of Victoria’s largest regional cities making it a great city to live and work in. Bendigo provides services for the region’s population of over 320,000 and so the city offers excellent schools, shopping and cultural precincts, sporting facilities and various tertiary facilities. We can offer generous flexible working arrangements - giving you more time to enjoy the fantastic restaurants, beautiful parks, walking trails and wineries within our region.

Interested?

We’d love to hear from you!  Please ensure that you attach a cover letter and an up-to-date copy of your resume.  

Need more information?  Please contact Emma Best, Director Quality and Compliance on 03 5454 9096 for a confidential discussion.  

Diversity and Inclusion

Bendigo Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and social inclusion and encourage people from a diverse cultural background, people with disabilities and or Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people to apply.

Position Description: HERE

Careers Video Reference: Bendigo Health Careers

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