Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Grade not specified
Occupation: Leadership and management
Location: Melbourne - Northern suburbs
Reference: 4854
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Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.
About the Division and SAPM
Austin Health has a highly integrated and networked organisational design that harnesses the collective contribution of clinical and non-clinical expertise to affect exceptional patient centered care. Clinical services within Austin Health are underpinned by strong cross discipline partnerships, stakeholder engagement and collaborative practice.
The clinical services governance structure provides a formal foundation and mechanism through which the Directorates come together to explore, discuss and review complex system wide service design and development whilst collaborative processes and practices within the portfolio enable a collective contribution and performance at the local level. Austin Health clinical services comprise a complex range of national, statewide, organisational wide and specialty clinical services.
Operational Area
Clinical services within the office of the Deputy CEO/COO operate across all Austin Health campuses and some community based settings and comprise a range of statewide, organisational wide and specialty clinical services. Those services are delivered across the following Clinical Divisions:
The Surgery, Anaesthesia and Procedural Medicine Division (SAPM) is part of the Operations Directorate at Austin Health. The Division manages a number of specialties and services including theatres, CSSD, outpatients and the surgical wards at Austin and Repatriation sites.
SAPM provide a broad range of elective and acute surgical procedures including Liver and Renal transplant and Cardiac surgery. Other surgical specialties include Neurosurgery, Orthopaedics, Plastics, Vascular, Thoracics, Urology, ENT, Paediatrics, General surgery, HPB, UGI and Endoscopy. A number of clinical services within the Division have associated research units.
SAPM promotes a culture that aims to deliver quality patient care. Staff are encouraged to value lifelong learning and as such are provided with time for education and professional development. The aim of this is to ensure that patients receive excellent care at all times and staff satisfaction and professional development is maintained.
About the role
The Divisional Director Surgery, Anaesthesia and Procedural Medicine and Divisional Medical Director collaboratively lead all strategic and operational facets of the Surgery, Anaesthesia and Procedural Medicine Division to ensure the efficient management of resources and effective provision of patient centered services within a complex and dynamic environmental context.
The Divisional Director contributes a critical strategic perspective to the conceptualisation and development of future oriented service delivery models of practice within a whole of organisation context.
Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer/Deputy CEO (COO/DCEO), the Divisional Director works closely with the Deputy Chief Operating Officer and other Divisional Directors to realise the delivery of contemporary, innovative and patient focused care within the health system.
They also contribute to the development of the strategic plan and is accountable for the achievement of goals articulated within the plan and specific targets under the Statement of Priorities in terms of access, activity, quality and budget, as they relate to the Division.
The Divisional Director ensures the provision of services that efficiently and effectively enable the delivery of exceptional patient focused care.
About you
You will be someone who has excellent communication skills, with a strong commitment to excellence in patient care. You’ll bring energy and drive to your work and have a keen interest in developing your skillset.
To be successful in this role you’ll bring with you:
Essential qualifications and experience for performance in the role
Our benefits
Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:
Work with us!
We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.
If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Robynne Cooke - Deputy Chief Operating Officer via email [email protected] or Cameron Goodyear - Deputy CEO - Chief Operating Officer via email [email protected].
Phone enquiries to Agapi Elias on 03 9496 5188.
Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.
Application closing date: Friday 6 March 2026