COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | INTEGRITY | RESPECT

About us:

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service provide an extensive range of health services at more than 30 regional, rural and remote facilities across a geographical area of 142,900 square kilometres.

The Health

Service is 95 percent self-sufficient with only a small number of high-level acute services being provided in Townsville and Brisbane.

The Health

Service is the primary provider of health services to residents of the Cairns, Tablelands and Cassowary Coast regions with a population of over 250,000 people, as well as providing specialist services to the Torres Strait and Cape York region.

Cairns

Hospital is the primary referral hospital for Far North Queensland.

About your opportunity:

As Director, Cairns Hospital Redevelopment Stage 1B, you will represent CHHHS in the delivery of more than $1 billion in new hospital infrastructure. Partnering with Health Infrastructure Queensland (HIQ), you will provide strategic leadership to ensure the successful planning, design, construction, commissioning and operational integration of this transformational investment. The redevelopment includes the Health Innovation & Surgical Centre, Health Management Hub and staff multi-storey car park, creating a lasting legacy for healthcare in Far North Queensland.

About you:

In your new role you will....

Be accountable and lead end-to-end operational commissioning and service integration, including clinical service transition, workforce readiness, models of care translation, workflow redesign, digital integration, change management, and 'go-live' planning to enable safe, efficient service commencement.





Establish and maintain robust governance, risk, and assurance frameworks, including identification, escalation, and mitigation of clinical, operational, financial, and delivery risks.

Provide oversight of financial performance, including budget alignment, cost pressures, and value optimisation to ensure delivery of agreed outcomes within approved funding parameters, while supporting the development of robust investment cases for future stages of the Cairns Hospital Master Plan, including the strategy and timing of supporting infrastructure and property acquisitions.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

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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.

Discover our agile and culturally diverse region through community and lifestyle.

Listen to what some of our staff have to say about working in our regions.

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📌 Director, Cairns Hospital Redevelopment Stage 1b - Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service (North Queensland)
🏢 Queensland Government
📍 North Queensland