This is an exciting senior medical management leadership position in New South Wales.
This NSW health service is a large regional public health organisation which prides itself on the delivery of first class care in a large, diverse rural environment.
Why Western NSW
Scale & reach: One of NSW’s largest districts, spanning 246,676 km² (about the size of Britain) with catchment population of 276k.
Diverse care settings: Australia’s largest rural mental health service; three major rural referral hospitals (Orange, Dubbo, Bathurst); 50 community health centres; 38 inpatient facilities including 25 MPSs; and District Health Services at Mudgee, Cowra, Parkes, and Forbes.
Meaningful impact: Home to 30,786 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (11.1% of our population vs 2.1% NSW average). Partner to improve access, outcomes, and experience for some of NSW’s most underserved communities.
What’s in it for you
- Leadership at scale: Influence models of care across metropolitan‑sized geography with rural agility.
- Breadth of practice: Complex generalist and sub‑specialty work across acute, community, and virtual care.
- Teach, build, and innovate: Mentor multidisciplinary teams, drive service redesign, and embed evidence‑based practice.
- Flexible base: Location negotiable within the district to suit your lifestyle.
If you’re ready to combine senior clinical practice with system‑level leadership—and see your decisions change lives across a large geographical region.
As Rural DMS , the key challenges which you will be asked to surmount include:
- Managing competing priorities within tight deadlines and varying complexity.
- Working effectively and productively with others.
- Ensuring the implementation of health service policy.
- Resolving clinical coordination issues whilst balancing clinical demands in a resource short public sector environment.
- Managing medical workforces and patient flow across a large geographical region.
Selection Criteria
- AHPRA registration.
- FRACMA or working towards.
- Comprehensive knowledge of and commitment to a public health system's safety, quality, risk management, change management, improvement systems.
- Comprehensive understanding of clinical care and various clinical models of care associated clinical information systems and expertise managing reporting systems.
- Demonstrated knowledge of contemporary health issues, rural healthcare priorities and reform agendas within the NSW Health system to manage medical workforce, and industrial requirements for medical officers.
- Demonstrated excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills, especially with senior medical practitioners and clinicians.
- Demonstrated ability to provide leadership as part of the senior management team, and ability to engage medical staff.
- Applicable driving licence.
For more information or to arrange an appointment to discuss please email Alasdair Spinner at alasdair@spinnermedical.com
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