Senior Medical Director - Acute, Medicine & Cancer Services
Senior Executive Medical Leadership | Permanent Opportunity | Competitive Salary + Salary Packaging
Albury Wodonga Health | Albury-Wodonga, NSW / Victoria Border
Sante Recruitment is seeking an exceptional clinical leader to join Albury Wodonga Health (AWH) as Senior Medical Director - Acute, Medicine & Cancer Services.
This is a rare opportunity to take on a senior medical leadership position within the largest regional health service between Sydney and Melbourne, influencing healthcare delivery across a substantial cross-border population spanning North-East Victoria and Southern New South Wales.
The position sits within the AWH Senior Leadership Team and provides a critical executive interface between clinical leadership and the organisation's broader executive structure.
This is an exciting time to join AWH, with significant service expansion and transformation underway across its cross-campus public healthcare network.
A Unique Opportunity to Shape the Role
The appointment is occurring during a period of significant organisational growth and service development.
The position is currently subject to an ongoing change consultation process in accordance with the relevant Victorian public health sector enterprise agreement and may be subject to variation following completion of that consultation.
Importantly, the successful candidate will actively participate in this consultation process.
This provides a genuine opportunity to help shape and refine the scope, structure and responsibilities of the role and influence how this emerging senior executive-interface position operates within the health service.
For an experienced medical leader, this represents an unusual opportunity to co-design a senior leadership role while simultaneously influencing the future direction of regional healthcare delivery.
The Role
As Senior Medical Director - Acute,



Medicine & Cancer Services, you will act as the key executive interface for Clinical Directors within the Directorate.
Working closely with senior executives, you will help bridge the organisation's executive leadership and clinical services, ensuring strong communication, collaboration and consensus-driven decision-making.
You will work closely with:
General Manager
Chief Medical Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Clinical Directors
Senior Medical Staff
Multidisciplinary clinical teams
Corporate and operational leaders
Key responsibilities will include:
Providing strategic clinical leadership across Acute, Medicine and Cancer Services
Supporting Clinical Directors and senior medical leaders
Acting as an executive interface between clinical services and senior management
Contributing to strategic service planning and transformation
Supporting clinical leadership development
Driving clinical quality and patient safety
Building strong stakeholder relationships
Supporting workforce planning and service development
Contributing to teaching, research and regional healthcare development
Ensuring clinical priorities are effectively represented at executive level
The successful candidate will be expected to bring a collaborative, strategic and influential leadership style, with the ability to build consensus across complex stakeholder environments.
About Albury Wodonga Health




Albury Wodonga Health is the largest regional health service between Sydney and Melbourne and provides healthcare across a significant cross-border population.
Operating across a growing multi-campus public healthcare network, AWH plays a critical role in delivering healthcare throughout the Hume Local Health Service Network, covering North-East Victoria and Southern New South Wales.
The organisation is undergoing significant growth and service expansion, creating opportunities for experienced medical leaders to influence the future direction of regional healthcare.
This is a genuinely regional leadership role with the chance to have an impact well beyond a single hospital campus.
Key Selection Criteria
The successful applicant will demonstrate:
Qualifications & Registration
Unconditional specialist registration as a Medical Practitioner with AHPRA
Current Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and/or
Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA)
Leadership Experience
Minimum 3 years' demonstrated management and clinical leadership experience in a senior leadership role
Proven ability to lead within a complex healthcare environment
Demonstrated experience in strategic planning and service development
Strategic & Influencing Capability
Implement complex strategies
Secure broad stakeholder engagement and buy-in
Influence across clinical and executive environments
Adapt your leadership and influencing approach to different stakeholders
Build effective relationships across organisational boundaries
Drive change within complex healthcare systems
Leadership Capability
Achieving Outcomes
Developing Self
Engaging People
Partnering
Transforming the System
Managing for the Future
Commitment To
Clinical safety
Regional healthcare
Teaching and education
Research
Quality improvement
Workforce development
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