AddressJob details
Position status Contract Position type Full-time Occupational group Executive Classification HES2 Workplace Location Brisbane Inner City,Brisbane - South Job ad reference QLD/MS02543358 Closing date 05-Mar-2024 Yearly salary Fortnightly salary Total remuneration Salary Other Job duration 3 year contract + 2 year possible extension Contact person Sarah Curran Contact details 0474 229 087
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About Metro South Health
Metro South Health is Australia's premier digital health service and one of Queensland's largest public health services. It caters to an estimated residential population of approximately 1.2 million people, accounting for 23% of Queensland's population, situated in the South-East corner of Queensland from the Brisbane River in the north to the Redland City Council in the east, and to the Scenic Rim Shire down to the border of New South Wales in the south-west. Metro South employs more than 14,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff and has an operating revenue of more than $2.9 billion.
About Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital
QEII hospital is a 208-bed and 24-bed alternative general hospital in Brisbane's rapidly expanding southeast. QEII provides a range of services including a busy Emergency Department, General Medicine, Cardiology, Respiratory Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Rehabilitation, General Surgery, Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, Intensive and Coronary Care, Urology and Outpatients. QEII is well equipped with seven operating theatres, two endoscopy suites and a five-bed Intensive Care Unit. The Emergency Department provides services to approximately 60,000 patients per year, in a rapidly growing region.
About the role
As the Executive Director, reporting to the Chief Operating Officer of Metro South Health, you will play a crucial role in shaping the operational and strategic outcomes of the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital. This senior leadership position offers an opportunity to collaborate with clinical and corporate leaders, guiding innovative practices that deliver high quality, safe, patient-centred healthcare at a rapidly expanding hospital. You will have direct accountability for the overall performance of the health services, provide expert advice on operational matters, and contribute to the development of strategic and operational plans, improved business models, and processes.
In this role, you will:
- Ensure that the necessary structures, frameworks, and processes are in place to enable the provision of excellent patient-centred, clinically safe, efficient, and effective services by the teams within the Directorate.
- Promote a culture of quality and safety among clinical staff and communicate the need for individuals to understand their contribution to quality and safety outcomes in patient care.
- Work with the Chief Operating Officer and in partnership with the Clinical Streams and other Directorates to deliver and foster innovative service delivery and staffing models within available resources that maximise service efficiency and effectiveness.
- Ensure the sustainable delivery of QEII services through effective budget management and planning, fiscally responsible decision-making, and strategically minded resource prioritisation.
- Ensure that governance and management systems are in place to enable the effective management of performance indicators across the Directorate as agreed with the Chief Operating Officer.
- Lead the delivery of operational plans for the Hospital through strong governance and risk management frameworks and protocols, providing timely and accurate reporting with a focus on outcomes.
- Foster positive and collaborative staff/union relationships by championing a high performing, values-driven, safety conscious workplace culture where people are rewarded and recognised for their contributions, treated fairly, respectfully and with dignity.
Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team.
Further information
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