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- mental wellbeing and suicide prevention – Townsville QLD $130,000
- $130,000 a year Full time 1d ago , from selectability
- mental wellbeing and suicide prevention The Care Governance & Safeguarding Officer leads the uplift of organisation‑wide governance, risk, safeguarding and quality systems, providing strong oversight and assurance that supports safe, high‑quality service delivery across NDIS, Aged Care and Child Safety environments. This role drives a consistent, contemporary approach to compliance by developing robust frameworks, monitoring performance, and championing continuous improvement, ensuring services operate with integrity, transparency and alignment to all regulatory, legislative and ethical standards.

Key responsibilities
include but are not limited to:
- Constructing governance and safeguarding frameworks aligned to NDIS, Aged Care, Child Safe and other relevant quality standards
- Applying governance methodologies to establish clear accountability, escalation pathways and effective control mechanisms
- Planning and implementing policies and systems that enable consistent, compliant and safe service delivery across all programs
- Evaluating framework effectiveness using evidence, audit outcomes and incident data to drive refinement and uplift
- Overseeing safeguarding practices by assessing systemic risks, analysing incident trends and strengthening organisational responses to harm
- Assessing compliance performance through audits, assurance activities and preparation for external accreditation processes
- Driving continuous improvement by implementing organisation‑wide strategies informed by data, evidence and quality insights
- Supporting stakeholder capability by interpreting standards, providing guidance,



and enabling leaders to strengthen safeguarding and quality outcomes

About the role
The Care Governance & Safeguarding Officer leads the uplift of organisation‑wide governance, risk, safeguarding and quality systems, providing strong oversight and assurance that supports safe, high‑quality service delivery across NDIS, Aged Care and Child Safety environments. This role drives a consistent, contemporary approach to compliance by developing robust frameworks, monitoring performance, and championing continuous improvement, ensuring services operate with integrity, transparency and alignment to all regulatory, legislative and ethical standards.

Key responsibilities
include but are not limited to:
- Constructing governance and safeguarding frameworks aligned to NDIS, Aged Care, Child Protected and other relevant quality standards
- Applying governance methodologies to establish clear accountability, escalation pathways and effective control mechanisms
- Planning and implementing policies and systems that enable consistent, compliant and safe service delivery across all programs
- Evaluating framework effectiveness using evidence, audit outcomes and incident data to drive refinement and uplift
- Overseeing safeguarding practices by assessing systemic risks, analysing incident trends and strengthening organisational responses to harm
- Assessing compliance performance through audits, assurance activities and preparation for external accreditation processes




- Driving continuous improvement by implementing organisation‑wide strategies informed by data, evidence and quality insights
- Supporting stakeholder capability by interpreting standards, providing guidance, and enabling leaders to strengthen safeguarding and quality outcomes About you To be considered for this rewarding role you will have:
- Advanced analytical skills to analyse trends, assess risk and evaluate system effectiveness
- Demonstrated capability to construct governance frameworks and quality systems
- Strong ability to prepare reports and assurance documentation
- Proven capacity to plan, implement and evaluate improvement initiatives
- Ability to support and influence operational leaders without direct authority
- Strong judgement in assessing systemic risk and organisational performance
- Significant experience in NDIS, Aged Care, Child Safety or related sectors
- Demonstrated experience in risk, compliance, governance, safeguarding oversight
- Experience in audit, assurance, accreditation and regulatory engagement Role requirements
- Relevant tertiary qualification (e.g human services, health, social work, governance, law, public health)
- 5 years' experience in relevant field or similar
- Out of hours work may be required
- Travel to selectability sites may be required
- A current open/P1 “C” Class Queensland driver’s licence
- A Child Safety & Personal History Screening check
- A Positive Notice Working with Children (blue card)
- NDIS workers screening Clearance
- NDIS Worker Orientation Module “Quality, Safety & You” completion certificate About the offer The Care Governance & Safeguarding Officer is a full-time position based in Townsville.

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