Chief Operating Officer, Chief Executive Services - Cairns

The Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service (CHHHS) is seeking an experienced health executive for the position of Chief Operating Officer to be part of our executive leadership team. CHHHS is the primary provider of health services to residents of the Cairns and Hinterland region with specialist serves to the Torres and Cape serving a population of over 250,000 people.

About us: 

The outer western region of our service includes extremely remote communities. Cairns Hospital is the only major referral hospital in Far North Queensland and also provides care for people from Cape York and the Torres Strait.

Our strategic and operational objectives are enabled through the provision of high-quality leadership and direction to CHHHS' hospital facilities and service Executives to optimise the provision of safe, quality healthcare while continuously improving clinical, performance and business outcomes. 

As the successful candidate, reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, you will:

• Offer substantial experience in executive leadership within a large health service environment is considered highly desirable for demonstrating achievement of the responsibilities of the position.
• Cultivate a strong service-wide performance and operational focus within the facility and service Executive management teams, setting a performance expectation of exceeding CHHHS' Service Level Agreement key performance indicators, safety, and quality markers, and supporting indicators.
• Have demonstrated values-based leadership, role model the highest standard of ethical conduct and set the tone for others to follow.
• Value and respect the needs and contributions of CHHHS Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff and clients anddemonstrate a commitment to the development of cultural competence across CHHHS.
• Contribute to the development, framing, implementation, and evaluation of the strategic plan for clinical and non-clinical services within CHHHS.
• Develop and oversee implementation of innovative ways to deliver high quality patient and consumer care that is cost and resource effective and achieves key performance clinical and non-clinical outcomes.
• Adhere to strong governance and risk management frameworks and protocols, providing timely and accurate reporting with a focus on outcomes.

Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Why choose Cairns?

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Find out more about why it's so great to work at Cairns and Hinterland here: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cairns_hinterland ( https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cairns_hinterland )