Introduction
The Quality Assurance and Accreditation Lead at South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Mental Health Service supports safe care across hospital and community settings. The role helps services meet regulatory, accreditation and quality standards through robust quality management and relationships with clinical teams.
To understand how to apply for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Lead, begin with the published selection criteria. They cover qualifications or equivalent experience, leadership, National Standards and safety systems, communication, analytical advice, stakeholder relationships, planning and evaluation. Give concrete evidence against each area.
This is a health-service management position based at Kogarah with travel to other district sites. Use examples that show how an accreditation or improvement process changed practice for staff and people receiving care. The public advertisement does not specify a closing time, so confirm it in the NSW Health portal.
Read the official Quality Assurance and Accreditation Lead vacancy. Applications close 11 October 2026 (time to confirm in the NSW Health portal). Check the employer application page for current instructions before submitting.
In this guide
- Role snapshot
- Application requirements
- Candidate evidence
- Example application structure
- Before you submit
- Help with your application
Quality Assurance and Accreditation Lead – SESLHD MHS role snapshot
| Role | Quality Assurance and Accreditation Lead – SESLHD MHS |
|---|---|
| Organisation | South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Mental Health Service |
| Location | Kogarah, with travel to other district sites |
| Employment | Temporary full-time to October 2027; Health Manager Level 3 |
| Pay | $137,525 to $156,231 per year plus superannuation |
| Job reference | REQ696672 |
| Closing date | 11 October 2026 (time to confirm in the NSW Health portal) |
| Official details | View the NSW Government vacancy |
Application requirements for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Lead – SESLHD MHS
- Application responses addressing the published selection criteria, using the NSW Health portal’s requested fields or format.
Published selection criteria
Address each criterion using the response format in the NSW Health form:
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in health management or quality auditing and business compliance or relevant equivalent work experience, or a combination of study and work experience.
- Demonstrated strong leadership skills to facilitate and deliver compliance, to influence workplace culture, and champion continuous quality improvement and robust processes.
- Extensive knowledge of contemporary issues in relation to National Standards quality assurance, quality improvement and safety systems.
- Demonstrated high level verbal and written communication, interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills.
- Demonstrated high level analytical and problem-solving skills including the ability to provide authoritative advice and recommendations across a large and complex organisation.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with senior management, and other key stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience in planning and evaluation at strategic and service levels in a high-volume dynamic work environment.
Essential role requirements and eligibility
The criteria include relevant tertiary qualifications in health management, quality auditing or business compliance, relevant equivalent work experience, or a combination. A current driver’s licence and willingness to travel are also stated. NSW Health pre-offer screening and vaccination policy may apply.
Candidate evidence for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Lead – SESLHD MHS
The criteria cover strong quality leadership, contemporary National Standards quality assurance and safety systems, high-level communication and influence, analysis and advice across a complex organisation, senior stakeholder relationships, and strategic and service-level planning and evaluation.
| Evidence area | What to demonstrate |
|---|---|
| Accreditation and standards | Describe how you interpreted a standard, gathered evidence with clinical teams, closed a gap and kept the change active after review. |
| Quality leadership | Show how you influenced staff or senior leaders to adopt a safer process and dealt with resistance or operational constraints. |
| Planning and evaluation | Explain the data and service feedback you used, the improvement you recommended and how you evaluated whether care or compliance improved. |
Example application structure for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Lead – SESLHD MHS
Map each of the seven written criteria to evidence before drafting. One accreditation project can serve several criteria, but make the specific answer to each criterion easy to find in the NSW Health response fields.
| Part | What to include |
|---|---|
| Criterion 1: qualifications or equivalent experience | State the qualification, work-experience pathway or combination you rely on. Give the health management, quality audit or compliance work that makes it relevant. |
| Criterion 2: leadership and continuous improvement | Describe a quality improvement you led, how you influenced staff practice, the robust process introduced and what changed. |
| Criterion 3: National Standards and safety systems | Name the National Standards or safety systems you have worked with, how you assessed a gap and what evidence showed improvement. |
| Criterion 4: communication, negotiation and influence | Use a clinical or management discussion where you explained a quality issue, handled competing views and secured a practical decision. |
| Criterion 5: analysis and authoritative advice | Show the information you examined, the risk or quality problem you identified and the recommendation you gave across a complex service. |
| Criterion 6: senior stakeholder relationships | Explain how you built and maintained trust with senior management or other key stakeholders while delivering a quality or accreditation outcome. |
| Criterion 7: planning and evaluation | Set out a strategic or service plan, the measures used to track progress and the evaluation that informed the next improvement. |
What the panel needs to see
- Direct evidence against each selection criterion.
- How quality systems supported safe mental health care.
- Authority and outcomes of advice in a large clinical organisation.
Before you submit
- Check the portal for the selection-criteria response format and closing time.
- Keep licence, travel and qualification conditions separate from written document requirements.
- Use deidentified clinical examples and verify all figures and claims.
Return to the official Quality Assurance and Accreditation Lead listing for the application link, closing date and any updated instructions.
Help with your Quality Assurance and Accreditation Lead – SESLHD MHS application
A selection-criteria map can prevent gaps. Choose a few detailed examples that together cover the published criteria, then point clearly to the evidence for each one.
We can help organise the seven criteria into a readable application grounded in your quality and safety experience. Governance and Risk application support can help you prepare the written application, while the current shortlist lets you compare other roles. You review the final documents and submit them through the employer’s portal.