Medical Co-Director

Medical Co-Director - Surgical Division - Perth Children's Hospital & Neonatology Salary: An attractive remuneration package commensurate with the position will be offered.

Location: Perth Children's Hospital and Neonatology (PCH&N), QEII Campus, Nedlands.

Join us in our mission to provide exceptional family-centred surgical care.
Shape the future of surgical initiatives, systems and services.
We have a current vacancy for a fixed term (5 year) position with the possibility of extension.
This is a Sessional appointment up to 0.5 FTE, hours are negotiable.

Position Profile This is an exceptional opportunity to join our esteemed team as Medical Co-Director – Surgical Division.
Reporting to the Executive Director Perth Children's Hospital and Neonatology (PCHN), you will leverage your professional expertise and extensive experience from acute settings to direct, evaluate, and manage services aligned with our strategic plan and guiding principles.

This is an extraordinary opportunity to steer the operation and sustainability of our surgical services.
You will play a key role in enabling positive change, shaping the future of service development, and strengthening innovative models of care.

Your ability to foster a highly collaborative and functional partnership with the Nursing Co-Director will be key to success for both of your roles and enable you to navigate complex decision making, and solve both joint problems, as well as those related to your respective craft groups.
Together you will drive a cohesive service focused on delivery of high quality surgical systems and practice, clinical and surgical care, and efficient service delivery, responsive to patient needs now and in the future.

You will play a vital leadership role in supporting Heads of Department across the surgical specialties.
Your capacity to facilitate growth, support others in reaching their full professional potential, and facilitate departments to advance clinical care will be valued.

Key responsibilities include: Providing effective medical leadership in clinical governance, safety, quality improvement, strategic planning, optimal resource allocation and reform for the surgical division, in collaboration with the Nurse Co-Director and Perth Children's Hospital and Neonatology Executive Team.
Leading as a peer, driving accountability and responding with integrity and situational awareness to manage complex, acute decision-making time frames in surgery.
Providing mentorship and support for Heads of Department and fostering collaboration between Clinicians and across Departments and Divisions for the safe and effective care of patients and families.
Managing clinical demand, understanding workload and workforce pressures and issues, and furthering our aim to grow and foster our exceptional workforce of highly skilled professionals.
Addressing surgical system issues and representing the surgical division in clinical and corporate governance within the hospital.
Supporting the development of advance practice nursing roles, and of junior medical roles to build the next generation of professionals and support them in their growth, ensuring evidence-based practice and research drive clinical advancements.
Ensuring safe and high-quality standards of clinical practice and the management of clinical and corporate risk, including coordination of education and training for medical staff to meet accreditation standards.
Providing mentorship and support to staff, fostering a culture of patient safety and family-centred care.
Ensuring business continuity management and emergency planning for the division.
Continuing to develop collaborative relationships with key stakeholders across public and private sectors, universities, non-government agencies as well as health at the State and National Level.
The ideal candidate will have prior experience in professional clinical leadership and in management of clinical services in a large complex acute health service.

Please note eligibility for registration with the Medical Board of Australia is a requirement for this role.

Why Join Us?
You will be part of a state-of-the-art facility with ample support and resources to facilitate excellence in patient care.
As a Surgical -Medical Co-Director, you will have the opportunity to influence positive change, advocate for clinical needs, and lead reforms in paediatric healthcare.

If you are passionate about paediatric medicine and ready to make a difference, apply now to join our team and help shape the future of healthcare in our community.

How to Apply: We welcome your application via MedCareers - Reference Number 492578.

Your application should contain the following:
A current resume which summarises your experience and how you are able to meet the position requirements.
Provide a response to these questions in the context of your experience in an acute tertiary setting: Describe how you have shaped and managed strategy , aligning business imperatives with strategic priorities in order to achieve organisational vision and goals.
Describe how you have built organisational capability and responsiveness (through your workforce) in an environment of constraint.
Describe how you have built productive relationships across an organisation within the health sector.
Describe how you have balanced diverse and competing interests to manage a clinical service in a large complex acute health care setting.
The name, email and contact details of two referees who can be contacted to provide a confidential report (we will contact you and seek your confirmation prior to contacting your listed referees).
Selection Criteria: Please see the attached Job Description Form.

For Further Job-Related Information: We encourage you to contact Tony Dolan, Executive Director of PCH & Neonatology on or .

Eligibility: Australian citizenship or permanent residency is an essential requirement for applicants to be considered for permanent positions in the public sector.

WA Health is committed to eliminating all forms of discrimination in the provision of our service.
We embrace diversity and strongly encourage applications from people from culturally diverse backgrounds and people with disabilities.
In addition, we are committed to growing our Aboriginal workforce as part of WA Health Aboriginal Workforce Policy.
As a measure to achieve equality, Section 51 of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 applies to this position and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply.

Child and Adolescent Health Service will only accept applications that are lodged with the express permission of the applicant and containing all necessary information, including personal contact details.
We will not accept unsolicited applications or CVs from recruitment agencies and/or search firms and we will not pay fees to any such organisation unless arranged with the provider prior to advertising a vacancy.
About CAHS: The Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS) is proud to be the leading service provider for paediatric healthcare in Western Australia, as the State's only dedicated health service for infants, children and young people.

With over 6500 employees, our services are delivered at PCH and King Edward Memorial Hospitals (KEMH), as well as across a network of more than 170 community clinics across the Perth metropolitan area.

For further information about the benefits of working for CAHS and our services please click here.

CAHS is committed to providing a workplace culture that is driven and shaped by our values of Compassion, Collaboration, Equity, Respect, Excellence and Accountability.
During the selection process you may be assessed on your ability to fulfil the responsibilities of this position in accordance with these values.

For Assistance including any adjustment needed to accommodate a disability and confidential enquiries – please contact the Strategic Talent Acquisition Recruitment Team (START) service via email: .
Lodgement is system generated.
Any submissions on, or after, 4:00pm on the closing date will not be accepted.
LATE OR EMAIL APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

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