Nursing Director

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What your day will look like....
As the Nursing Director - Clinical Planning and Commissioning Manager, your day will involve overseeing the strategic planning and operational readiness for the New Toowoomba Hospital. You'll lead cross-disciplinary teams, ensuring that clinical services are aligned with professional standards and healthcare policies. A significant part of your role will be guiding project teams through complex change management processes, identifying risks, and implementing innovative solutions. You'll consult with internal and external stakeholders to develop contemporary models of care and ensure the hospital's systems, policies, and procedures are ready for safe, effective service delivery. Your leadership will foster a culture of continuous improvement, where education, research, and collaboration drive high-quality healthcare outcomes. Through mentorship and guidance, you'll support the development of the next generation of healthcare leaders while staying true to Darling Downs Health's values of compassion, respect, and excellence.
Let's talk about you
- Compassion - you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.
- Integrity - you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.
- Dignity - you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.
- Innovation - you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.
- Courage - you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up.

Why Us?
Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect. DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.
Benefits
- Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
- A diverse work culture
- Career development
- Professional development opportunities
- Education opportunities, Study and Research
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Discounted Private Health Insurance
- Fitness Passport
- Work-Life Balance, Variety and Flexibility
- Generous Salary Sacrificing

Next step....
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