Lead Adult Mental Health services and shape strategic outcomes across Metro South Health

Make a meaningful impact across Metro South by delivering strategic Adult Mental Health services and improving outcomes for consumers and carers.

Job details

Your new role:

This is an influential executive leadership opportunity based at Eight Mile Plains, leading Metro South Health's Adult Mental Health Service and providing strategic direction and operational oversight to deliver safe, high-quality and person-centred care. The role works across all campuses within the portfolio, including Woolloongabba, Redlands and Logan.  

• Provide single point accountability for Adult Mental Health service delivery, ensuring safe, timely and high-quality clinical care aligned with Metro South Health strategic and operational priorities.
• Lead service planning, workforce management and clinical governance across the service, with responsibility for staffing, budget, service targets and key performance indicators.
• Partner with members of the Addictions and Mental Health Executive to drive strategic initiatives, strengthen service performance and deliver contemporary, sustainable models of care.
• Provide expert leadership and advice to the Executive Director, Addictions and Mental Health on service priorities, operational performance and opportunities to improve patient and workforce outcomes.

About you:

You are an experienced and values-driven executive leader with a strong track record in leading complex mental health services and delivering high-quality outcomes in large healthcare environments. You bring strategic oversight, sound clinical governance and a commitment to person-centred care, while building strong partnerships across teams and services.

• Provide executive leadership and accountability for Adult Mental Health clinical practice, service delivery, and patient outcomes, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities, operational plans and service targets.
• Demonstrate expertise in clinical governance, compliance and quality improvement, fostering safe and sustainable services while meeting organisational standards.
• Lead with integrity and sound judgement, with proven experience managing budgets, delivering against KPIs and guiding teams through complex change and emergent or crisis situations.
• Build strong partnerships through highly developed communication, negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills, influencing across multidisciplinary teams and health service partners.

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.

Further information

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

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

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

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS06684000 Role Description (PDF)