Director Medical Services – Flinders and Upper North Local Health Network

Employment Type: Full-time
Location: Whyalla, SA
Application Close Date: 22/08/2024

Where you’ll be working

When you join our dynamic workforce, you will escape the hustle and bustle of city life and be able to take advantage of the endless possibilities for adventure relaxation, recreation and sightseeing. In The Flinders and Upper North Local Health Network, you can experience cultural diversity, outback locations and regional city conveniences, whilst working in innovative roles to improve the community’s health outcomes and wellbeing.

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Living in Whyalla means enjoying nearly 300 days of sunshine each year, along with beautiful beaches and a wealth of sports and outdoor activities to suit every interest. Positioned on the Eyre Peninsula, Whyalla is ideally located as a gateway to numerous attractions, just a 2.5-hour drive from Port Lincoln and other scenic spots, or a quick 45-minute drive to the stunning Flinders Ranges. Explore more at Whyalla.

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About the Role

The Director, Medical Services (DMS) is accountable for:

1. Ensuring clinical governance and audit processes for the delivery of safe, high quality medical care.
2. The management of medical staff and medical service contracts primarily in Whyalla Hospital and other locations at the discretion of the EDMS, including oversight for recruitment and orientation of new Medical Officers in defined health facilities.
3. Ensuring that the medical workforce achieve and/or maintain competencies as required by the specialist colleges, the South Australian Medical Education and Training, Health Advisory Council (HAC), and the Medical Board of Australia. Also ensuring, along with the EDMS, that all Medical Officers are appropriately credentialed in accordance with SA Health Credentialing Policy.
4. Ensuring service coordination through effective communication between resident and visiting medical officers and Specialists, Salaried Medical Officers, General Practitioners within the health service and in the community, SA Ambulance Service, SA Retrieval Service, Rural and Remote Mental Health Service and other community clinical services.
5. Implementing the SA Health Clinical Services Capability Framework, clinical policies, and best practice clinical protocols.
6. Strategic and clinical input into clinical services and service delivery models assisting the EDMS to do so as directed.
7. May hold responsibility for a portfolio across the LHN and for other health facilities, as negotiated with the EDMS.

About You

Personal Abilities/Aptitudes/Skills

• Established academic track record as well as experience in innovative and high-quality contemporary service delivery. 
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to engage, motivate, build trust, and inspire others to achieve objectives. 
• Strategic foresight: ability to think strategically at a system wide level, with the ability to execute vision. 
• A change leader, motivated by continuous improvement and able to drive transformational change. 
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate group and individual performance against agreed objectives. 
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills. 
• Personal integrity and a strong reputation for ethical conduct. 
• Demonstrated personal qualities and skills to resolve interpersonal conflicts and solve problems in a positive manner. 
• Demonstrated capacity to effectively manage in an environment of dynamic change and financial constraint. 
• Professional commitment to the principles of quality, clinical governance, and patient safety.

Experience

• Experience in providing operational medical leadership to a complex multi-disciplinary organisation in a climate of continuing change, increasing the effectiveness and accountability of the organisation and/or programs.
• Experience in the preparation, implementation and evaluation of strategic plans, policies and strategies dealing with complex issues.
• Experience in the operational management of risk and increasing the effectiveness and accountability of risk management strategies and organisational operations.
• Experience in continuous improvement activities.
• Experience in the management of medical contracts.
• Demonstrated success in the effective management of human, financial and material resources.

Knowledge

• Demonstrated knowledge of public health system operations, particularly as they related to acute and primary health care services across the continuum of care. 
• An understanding of the emerging directions within health services, nationally and internationally. 
• Knowledge of the political and socio-economic factors that impact on health services. 
• Knowledge of the spirit and principles of the Premier’s Safety Commitment and the legislative requirements of the Occupational Health Safety and Welfare Act, utilising AS/NZ 4360 Risk Management or to an equivalent set of standards. 
• Demonstrated knowledge of the National and State directions in relation to quality and safety.

Desirable Characteristics

Educational/Vocational Qualifications

• Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators or working towards such
• Tertiary qualification in Health Management or Business Administration.

More information

For more information about the role contact Dr Lindy Washington at lindy.washington@sa.gov.au or +61 468 579 413

Applications close: 22/08/2024