About us:
Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service is a leading regional health provider delivering comprehensive services to a population of more than 250,000 people, while also supporting remote communities across Cape York and the Torres Strait. The service operates an extensive network of facilities across a vast geographical footprint and plays a critical role as the primary referral centre for Far North Queensland. Like many contemporary health systems, the organisation is navigating increasing demand, workforce pressures, and the need to align infrastructure and service models with changing community needs and government priorities. This role has been established to provide executive leadership across strategy, planning and infrastructure, ensuring the organisation's future directions are underpinned by robust evidence, sustainable investment and integrated service design. Working at the centre of executive decision-making, the position is integral to delivering the organisation's strategic plan, guiding major capital investment and strengthening long-term system performance.
We're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by providing high quality acute health care services.
About your role:
The position is accountable for overseeing complex capital projects, including the analysis of delivery options, risk management, stakeholder engagement and compliance with government frameworks, while ensuring projects support clinical service delivery and future growth. In parallel, the role drives strategic planning cycles, including the preparation and execution of multi-year strategic and operational plans, and provides oversight of sustainability initiatives, accommodation planning and organisational priorities. Working closely with clinicians, executives, government agencies and external partners, the Executive Director fosters strong relationships to enable integrated planning, supports major negotiations and represents the organisation at senior forums. Leadership of multidisciplinary teams and external providers is a key component of the position, ensuring high performance, effective governance and continuous improvement across the portfolio.
The Executive Director Strategy, Planning and Infrastructure Services will play a central role in readying the organisation for a historic $1bn investment underway to create a leading health research and innovation precinct, ensuring it is strategically, operationally and culturally positioned to fully realise this opportunity.
For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.
Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.
What we offer:
Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health service offer a number of workplace benefits. Besides attractive remuneration, generous superannuation, salary packaging and career development opportunities, we value a healthy work/life balance that allows you take advantage of the sunshine, hiking tracks, swimming spots, reef and rainforest.
Learn what it's like to work with us, in an inclusive and supportive work environment.
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