Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population. 

This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the Role

• Foster a culture of interprofessional collaboration and leadership through understanding the role and the roles of others in the interprofessional team leveraging this knowledge to establish and meet client goals and inform service direction.
• Single point accountability for the services within the medical services portfolio.
• Management of direct report staff including Deputy Executive Director of Medical Services; Director, Medical Education Unit, Manager, Patient Safety & Quality Unit, Director, Queensland Tissue Bank and Statewide Medical Director, Organ and Tissue Donation Service (DonateLife).
• Provide strategic leadership and advice to the Executive Director PAH on medical workforce matters, contributing to decision making in the achievement of the PAH Operational Plan and MSHHS strategic plan.
• Provide authoritative, critical and strategic advice to the Executive Director PAH regarding strategies for continuous improvement in the delivery of clinical systems.
• Provide executive level medical support in the strategic oversight and leadership of the PAH clinical governance function, including quality, credentialing, accreditation, Medico-Legal, incident management and patient safety programs.
• Deliver high-level expert advice to the Executive Director PAH and the ELT on all medical workforce matters, professional development, professional competency, planning and strategy for the PAH designed to advance quality, safety, governance and risk in health service delivery.
• Work collaboratively with the PAH ELT to contribute to leading PAH business continuity, emergency and disaster management systems and processes to deliver organisational resilience and emergency/disaster preparedness related to clinical events.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

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 ( http://www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ).

Eligible health workers may qualify for a Workforce Attraction Incentive payment. To find out more and see if you are eligible visit: https://www.healthycareers.health.qld.gov.au/attraction-incentives ( https://www.healthycareers.health.qld.gov.au/attraction-incentives )

This process may be used to appoint to same or similar vacancies for a period of up to 12 months after the closing date of the initial vacancy. A vacancy advertisement will lapse if no appointment is made within six months of the closing date of the vacancy.