Director - Queensland Eating Disorder Service

Metro North Hospital & Health Service; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Flexible work

Salary packaging

Superannuation 12.75%

Job summary

Metro North Health is seeking a Director for the Queensland Eating Disorder Service (QuEDS) to provide strategic clinical leadership across a statewide ED program. The role oversees governance, assessment, and care delivery, ensuring safe, evidence-based, and recovery-focused services.

You will drive statewide guidelines, service development, and professional development for hospital and community teams, with a focus on collaboration, inclusion, and high-quality patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Lead and govern ED services with safe, evidence-based treatment.
• Deliver specialist psychiatric assessment and treatment for EDs.
• Support statewide guidelines and service models for ED care.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and governance for QuEDS, ensuring safe, effective, evidence-based treatment.
• Deliver specialist psychiatric assessment and treatment for ED patients, including those with complex comorbidities.
• Support development, review, and statewide guidelines and service models for ED care.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Governance

Psychiatric assessment

Eating disorders

Job description

Director - Queensland Eating Disorder Service

Provide high-quality psychiatric care and clinical leadership for the Queensland Eating Disorder Service (QuEDS), a statewide service hosted within Metro North Mental Health. The role holds governance and overarching clinical responsibility for the assessment, treatment and care of people with eating disorders, ensuring safe, evidence-based and recovery-focused services. It also supports statewide service development, intake, consultation, training and guidance for hospital and community teams managing complex presentations.

About you

Our ideal candidate will be someone who can carry out the following key accountabilities in accordance with the Metro North Health's values:

• Provide clinical leadership and governance for eating disorder services within QuEDS, ensuring safe, effective, and evidence-based treatment.
• Deliver specialist psychiatric assessment and treatment for consumers with eating disorders, including those with complex comorbidities.
• Support the development, review, and implementation of statewide eating disorder clinical guidelines and service models statewide

Benefits when working for us

• Rewarding career and development opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas
• Value driven organisation which provides a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance
• Flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases
• Benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75% and access to salary packaging

Metro North Health offers a dynamic and progressive environment at the forefront of healthcare, research, and education. With a strong commitment to inclusion, flexibility, and professional development, we provide meaningful opportunities in a workplace that puts people first. You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro North here: https://metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/careers

Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged and welcomed.