Critical to the success of Gold Coast Health, the Executive General Manager is a key member of the Executive Leadership team responsible for providing leadership and management to a divisional portfolio in the delivery of safe and quality services. For further information on our health service, please watch our corporate video:

Job details

Our vision is to have the best health outcomes in Australia, based on being a leader in sustainable, compassionate and highly reliable health care.

Our Always Care philosophy underpins our values of Integrity, Community First, Respect, Excellence, Compassion and Empower. Always Care is the commitment every employee makes every day to ensure person-centred care is at the heart of everything we do. The simplest acts of compassion can have the greatest impact.

Gold Coast Health delivers a broad range of secondary and tertiary health services across more than 20 facilities, including three hospitals and two health precincts.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Executive General Manager (EGM) represents a single point of accountability for achieving outcomes expected of the Medicine division to ensure the service group contributes to the achievement of GCHHS vision. 

The role partners with the clinical leadership team in creating and managing safe, effective and sustainable services, provides high level advice to the GCHHS Executive and Board and carries a high level of autonomy and responsibility for action.  The EGM has responsibility to establish and monitor standards of performance, areas of risk and opportunity in order to achieve best practice performance and provides leadership within a culture which fosters collaboration, evidence-based decision making, research, learning and innovation.

This is a role for a strong and collaborative leader with a successful track record in leading services within a large and complex health care organisation, a strategic and comprehensive approach to planning and decision making, and demonstrated ability to manage a significant budget and a large, diverse workforce.  The ideal candidate will demonstrate a broad understanding of health care issues, including the role of academic medicine with researchers, practitioners and educators.

Download the Role Description via the link below for further details of the role.

To submit your application please click ‘Apply online' and submit the information as outlined in the role description by Thursday, 9 October 2025.

Job Ad reference: GC662271

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• GC662271 - RD (PDF, 474KB)
  Role Description