Drive medical excellence and strategy in the heart of the Country.
Director of Medical Services at Alice Springs Hospital
Alice Springs Hospital isn't just another regional facility – it's the beating heart of healthcare for Central Australia, serving communities across an area larger than many European countries but with a tiny fraction of the population.
Our client, the Northern Territory Department of Health, seeks an exceptional medical leader and administrator to helm the Director of Medical Services role at Alice Springs Hospital.
This isn't your typical hospital management position. Here, you'll be athe future of healthcare delivery across the vast Central Australian landscape, ensuring every patient – from Alice Springs locals to remote Indigenous communities – receives exemplary care.
Job highlights
Strategic Impact: You'll shape clinical governance frameworks that ripple across the entire Health Service, directly influencing patient outcomes for thousands.
Clinical Leadership: Guide multidisciplinary teams including Medical Imaging, Pharmacy, and Pathology services while maintaining hands-on clinical excellence.
Educational Stewardship: Nurture the next generation of medical professionals through comprehensive undergraduate and postgraduate training programs in one of Australia's most challenging yet rewarding healthcare environments.
Cultural Significance: Work alongside Indigenous health teams, understand underlying health issues, contributing to closing the health gap in meaningful, sustainable ways.
Criteria
You're a specialist-registered medical professional with deep hospital experience along with substantial rural and remote medicine expertise. You have experience in medical administration – you may be progressing toward RACMA Fellowship or have FRACMA– either way, you will be excited by the prospect of utilising your management, administration and clinical knowledge to face the unique challenges of remote healthcare delivery.
You will see opportunity where others see obstacles, and you understand that leading in Alice Springs means being part of something special.
This opportunity offers what few medical leadership roles can: genuine autonomy, direct community impact, high profile community role and the chance to practice medicine in its purest form. You'll work against a backdrop of stunning landscapes while building healthcare infrastructure that serves as a model for remote service delivery globally.
The four-year fixed-term appointment provides stability and scope for transformational change. You'll join a team committed to excellence, innovation, and making healthcare accessible regardless of geography.
Contact alasdair@spinnermedical.com for more information.
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