Kate Lambert
Airport West
Summary
Dedicated, values driven leader with a passion for promoting quality patient care and excellent patient outcomes. Offering extensive experience in nursing and clinical governance, including understanding of paediatrics, surgical care and managing operational needs and demands. Possesses proven track record of developing and implementing comprehensive policies, providing excellent leadership and mentoring, and maintaining compliance with regulatory standards. Strategic thinker, with a passion for quality improvement.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Director Clinical Governance (Acting)
Ambulance Victoria
07.2024 - Current
- Developing high-performing teams by providing mentorship, leadership, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Strengthening Clinical Governance by embedding the Best Care, Everywhere framework statewide. Leading the redevelopment of clinical governance structures, and uplifting the capability of staff across the organisation.
- Providing divisional liaison to manage risk mitigation responses to protected industrial actions impacting patient safety, research, operational capability and data monitoring.
Patient Experience and Consumer Participation Lead
Ambulance Victoria (AV)
07.2022 - 06.2024
- Responsible for managing the Patient Experience wing of Quality and Clinical Innovation division, including managing stakeholders across the organisation regarding complaints and supporting staff welfare with complex situations, and ensuring delivery of safe and supported consumer engagement.
- Led project to develop Statutory Duty of Candour processes and embed into practice.
- Manage and support patients, families and staff through the open disclosure/Duty of Candour processes, advocating for patient led processes that cater for diversity of experience.
- Responsible for strategic development of Community and Consumer Engagement plan, as it relates to Consumers
Clinical Governance Lead
Covid-19 Quarantine Victoria (CQV)
01.2022 - 06.2023
- Key relationship manager for 2 separate health services. ensured the safe provision of primary health care for returned travellers in quarantine, as well as care for COVID-19 positive community members.
- Established effective communication channels among team members to promote knowledge sharing and collaborative problem solving
- Provided Clinical Governance Expertise, including patient incident review, clinical audit, strategic advice regarding resident wellbeing.
- Clinical lead for project to build Quarantine facility.
Clinical Nurse Consultant
Royal Children's Hospital, Rosella Ward
05.2019 - 01.2021
- Responsible for Clinical Governance activities within the PICU, risk management, clinical audit, and quality improvement
- Collaboration with teams in order to create strategic improvements.
- Promoted a culture of safety within the healthcare environment by monitoring practices and advocating for necessary improvements.
- Improved patient outcomes by implementing evidence-based nursing practices and providing guidance to clinical staff.
- Additional or previous roles held within Rosella between 2004-2021
- Associate Nurse Unit Manager/Acting Nurse Unit Manager
- Clinical Nurse Specialist
Senior Clinical Governance and Quality Officer
Covid-19 Quarantine Victoria (CQV)
02.2021 - 01.2022
- Providing clinical audit skills, relationship management and on call support for matters relating to resident health and wellbeing.
Clinical Nurse Specialist/Associate Nurse Unit Manager
Royal Children's Hospital, Rosella Ward
01.2004 - 01.2021
Acting Nurse Unit Manager
Royal Children's Hospital, Rosella Ward
Associate Nurse Unit Manager
Royal Children's Hospital, Rosella Ward
01.2015 - 05.2019
Education
Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Nursing Practice (Management and Health Leadership) -
James Cook University
01.2020
Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Clinical Nursing (Paediatric Critical Care) -
Melbourne University
01.2004
Bachelor of Nursing -
Massey University
01.2001
Skills
- Quality Improvement
- Leadership and Guidance
- Process Improvements
- Clinical Operations and People Management
- Multidisciplinary team collaboration
- Patient Safety
- Decision-Making
- Active Listening
Volunteer Experience
The Sisterhood Project, Founding Board Member, 2023-current, Our mission is to provide life saving baby and child first aid training to vulnerable families, with an emphasis on remote and rural families. thesisterhoodproject.com.au
References
- Kate Peck, A/Executive Director, Quality and Clinical Innovation, Ambulance Victoria. katherine.peck@ambulance.vic.gov.au
- Tegwyn McMannamy, Director of Quality, Albury Wodonga Hospital. tegwyn.mcmannamy@awhs.org.au (previous manager at AV)
Timeline
Director Clinical Governance (Acting)
Ambulance Victoria
07.2024 - Current
Patient Experience and Consumer Participation Lead
Ambulance Victoria (AV)
07.2022 - 06.2024
Clinical Governance Lead
Covid-19 Quarantine Victoria (CQV)
01.2022 - 06.2023
Senior Clinical Governance and Quality Officer
Covid-19 Quarantine Victoria (CQV)
02.2021 - 01.2022
Clinical Nurse Consultant
Royal Children's Hospital, Rosella Ward
05.2019 - 01.2021
Associate Nurse Unit Manager
Royal Children's Hospital, Rosella Ward
01.2015 - 05.2019
Clinical Nurse Specialist/Associate Nurse Unit Manager
Royal Children's Hospital, Rosella Ward
01.2004 - 01.2021
Acting Nurse Unit Manager
Royal Children's Hospital, Rosella Ward
Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Nursing Practice (Management and Health Leadership) -
James Cook University
Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Clinical Nursing (Paediatric Critical Care) -
Melbourne University
Bachelor of Nursing -
Massey University
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