General Manager

General Manager | St Stephens Hospital
Applications close end of day Wednesday 17
th
of December 2025
Make a meaningful difference with St Stephens Hospital
At St Stephen's Hospital, we are Australia's first fully digital hospital, giving the Wide Bay community access to one of the country's most advanced healthcare facilities. An innovative non-for-profit regional hospital, we offer access to the best specialists with minimal waiting for advanced treatment and remain focused on making a meaningful difference in the lives of our patients and surrounding community. We offer a comprehensive range of inpatient medical, surgical and rehabilitation services including Cardiac and Cancer Care, Urology, Bariatric, Gynaecology, Respiratory, Haematology, Orthopaedics, Cardiovascular, Endoscopy and Vascular and general surgery.

Please note this is a full-time permanent position with some travel required between hospital sites, however primarily working out of St Stephens Hospital, located in Hervey Bay. Relocation support is on offer.
Your part in our St Stephens Hospital team
Reporting to the Hospitals Group Executive, the General Manager of St Stephens Hospital is pivotal in providing effective leadership, governance and operational management of the hospital and in turn delivering UnitingCare Health's commitment to clinical and service excellence, with compassionate care.

• As a member of the SLT take responsibility for key management decisions to ensure the effective operations of UnitingCare accountable for the delivery of all financial and operational targets for the hospital
• Continually monitor the environment to understand new or emerging issues that may impact on UnitingCare and develop robust and agile organisational responses to ensure contemporary solutions are in place
• Balance the mission imperatives of the Uniting Church with the commercial imperatives of operating a large, not for profit health and community services provider
• Create a value driven, safe employment environment that attracts, engages and retains skilled employees and volunteers
• Actively contribute to the maximisation of synergies across UCH to improve service delivery and business performance
• Build effective networks and partnering relationships with key internal and external stakeholders including consumers, staff, doctors and allied health providers, the Church, and community as well as health funds, government, and academic institutions
• Promote and protect the public reputation, standing and brand of the hospital

What makes a difference for us?

• Extensive senior leadership experience in a large private hospital, with a demonstrated track record of driving sustainable financial, operational and clinical performance
• Proven ability to engage stakeholders, manage diverse viewpoints and build appropriate partnerships
• Proven ability to provide leadership in professional standards and ethics
• Ability to provide effective leadership across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Effective interpersonal communication skills (written and verbal)
• Demonstrated ability to lead the development of a strategic action plan, including development and monitoring of key performance indicators and change process
• Tertiary Qualifications
• Post Graduate Qualifications in Finance, Business, Leadership or other relevant field (desirable)
• Experience with or sound knowledge of the not for profit sector (desirable)

What makes a difference for you?

• NFP Salary Packaging: Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum. To learn more about this benefit watch the video via the following link: Salary Packaging Explained
• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
• A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs
• 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme
• Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events
• Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference
• A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others

We'd love you to be part of our UnitingCare family
By joining our Hospitals, you'll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. The second-largest Queensland employer, we're a proud not-for-profit with more than 17,500 staff and 9, 000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen's Hospital, and St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital, and have been leading by example for more than 100 years. Our team are compassionate, inclusive and committed to the work we do, helping people live life in all its fullness.
Child safe, Child friendly
UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:

• provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children
• implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services
• appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur

Diversity & Inclusion
Our approach is simple – everybody is welcome here.  At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.
Safe workplace
We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.