Chief Operating Officer

Peninsula Health; Frankston; On-site; AUD 250,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Bayside Health invites applications for the Chief Operating Officer to lead clinical and operational excellence across its Peninsula Care Group sites. The role reports to the CEO and oversees Emergency, ICU, maternity, paediatrics, and allied health services, ensuring safe, effective, connected care for the community.

We seek a visionary, future-focused leader with proven success in hospital operations, stakeholder engagement, and continuous service improvement within a complex multisite

Qualifications

• Experience leading clinical and corporate functions in a complex multisite organisation.
• Strong knowledge of health service delivery and advocacy in community/government forums.
• Ability to lead diverse teams to deliver high quality integrated health services.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage all clinical operations across Emergency, ICU, Acute Medicine, Women’s Health, Paediatrics, Sub Acute, Community, Dental, Pathology, Radiology, Pharmacy, Surgery, Mental Health and Wellbeing Services across Peninsula Care Group sites.
• Drive innovative, strategic growth while ensuring operational integrity and robust financial management.
• Engage with stakeholders to continuously improve hospital operations and patient care.

Skills

Senior management experience

Health service delivery knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Tertiary qualifications in a related field

Job description

Job category: Senior Executive | Director

• An opportunity to join in an executive health leadership role to drive the exciting growth of cutting‑edge public health in the Frankston & Mornington Peninsula community.
• Lead a trajectory of innovation and research coupled with clinical best practice
• Help position Bayside Health - Peninsula to be at the forefront of Victorian public health delivery
• A rare opportunity for an experienced public health operational leader.

Chief Operating Officer

Work type: HEER Contract

Job category: Senior Executive | Director

• An opportunity to join in an executive health leadership role to drive the exciting growth of cutting‑edge public health in the Frankston & Mornington Peninsula community.
• Lead a trajectory of innovation and research coupled with clinical best practice
• Help position Bayside Health - Peninsula to be at the forefront of Victorian public health delivery
• A rare opportunity for an experienced public health operational leader.

About Bayside Health

Bayside Health is a public health service delivering high‑quality care across every stage of life for close to 1.2 million people living in metropolitan Melbourne, the Mornington Peninsula, Koo Wee Rup, Bass Coast and Southern Gippsland.

We have more than 15 main sites, including hospitals, centres and clinics that provide comprehensive care from welcoming newborns to supporting older people and a full range of services in between.

More than 22,000 dedicated staff are focused on providing exceptional, equitable, and locally connected care through shared expertise, compassion, and a commitment to continuous growth. Education and training are central to staff development as we encourage all employees to strive and thrive.

Bayside Health was formed following the merger of Alfred Health, Bass Coast Health, Gippsland Southern Health Service, Kooweerup Regional Health Service and Peninsula Health on 1 January 2026.

Care Groups

Bayside Health is organised into three care groups:

• Alfred Care Group operates The Alfred, Caulfield Hospital, Sandringham Hospital and Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. Australia’s busiest Emergency and Trauma Centre and largest Intensive Care Unit is located at The Alfred. From here we provide nineteen statewide services to support the Victorian community. It is also the largest site for clinical trials in Australia.
• Peninsula Care Group operates the new Peninsula University Hospital and Rosebud Hospital among other sites and facilities. The new hospital will transform local care with dedicated wards and services. The group also operates MePACS, a personal alarm service, which cares for around 50,000 elderly and vulnerable people across Australia.
• Bayside Regional Care Group operates sites at Kooweerup, Korumburra, Leongatha, Phillip Island and Wonthaggi and specialises in rural and regional care.

The Peninsula Care Group is seeking to appoint ourChief Operating Officer. This role is essential to enable the mission of the strategic plan to be brought to life.Reporting to the Chief Executive (CEO), the role is responsible for leading and managing all clinical operations across Emergency, ICU, Acute Medicine, Women’s Health, Paediatrics, Sub Acute, Community, Dental, Pathology, Radiology, Pharmacy, Surgery, Menal Health and Wellbeing Services and Allied Health services across the Peninsula Care Group sites.

A critical role to the successful delivery of safe, personal, effective and connected, care, the Chief Operating Officer is required to drive innovative, strategic growth for the organisation, while ensuring operational integrity, robust financial management and exceptional delivery of care for patients and the community.

If you are an inspiring, future focused leader who is strong in continuously improving services, hospital operations and stakeholder engagement in a complex organisation, this is an opportunity not to be missed.

Join the Peninsula Care Group and lead the delivery of safe, personal, effective & connected care to every person, every time.

This position will cease advertising on 18 October 2026.

Essential Requirements

The successful candidate will have:

• Tertiary qualifications in a related field and/or demonstrated extensive proven experience at a senior management level in a substantial and complex organisation engaged in clinical service delivery, ideally from a multisite hospital & related clinical settings.
• Demonstrated application of knowledge and expertise in health service delivery, across a diverse range of care sectors, in advocacy for positive change in a broad range of community and government forums.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a diverse range of staff across clinical and corporate functions to deliver high quality integrated health services.