Senior General Medicine Unit Leader

Southern Adelaide Local Health Network; Canberra; On-site; AUD 297,000 - 383,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary sacrifice benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Join SALHN as Head of Unit providing senior clinical and operational leadership across General Medicine at Flinders Medical Centre, setting clear standards for patient care, safety, and outcomes.

As an experienced Senior Clinician, you will collaborate with the Clinical Director to ensure efficient operation, lead in quality improvement, and provide supervision and training for Trainee Medical Officers while managing budgets and capital works in partnership with the Clinical Director.

Qualifications

• Appropriate Specialist Qualification for Consultant/Senior Consultant registrable as a Specialist with the Medical Board of South Australia.
• Proven leadership skills and an ability to motivate others.
• Proven ability to lead professional groups to achieve best practice clinical outcomes.
• Highly developed analytical skills and a demonstrated ability to make sound management decisions.
• Demonstrated capacity to effectively lead in an environment of dynamic change and financial constraint.
• Demonstrated experience in a Senior Clinical leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience in the planning and provision of health services.

Responsibilities

• In collaboration with the Clinical Director, ensures the effective and efficient operation of the team.
• Ensures that each consumer’s care has a direct line of responsibility to a Consultant (in their relevant specialty).
• Contributes to the development of systems for quality improvement activities – including, examination of key performance indicators and clinical audits.
• Responsible, with the Clinical Director, for reviewing critical incidents/adverse events, complaints, allegations and other sources of feedback about service quality and the propagation of recommendations if required.
• Responsible, with the college supervisor, for ensuring Trainee Medical Officers are supported in their training obligations and provided with the required training.
• Responsible for clinical supervision and line management of medical staff allocated to the team.
• Manages major budget allocation and expenditure with the assistance of the Clinical Director, and contributes to budget preparation, management of allocated funds and preparation of capital works proposals in collaboration with the Clinical Director.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical skills

Education

Specialist qualification for Consultant/Senior Consultant (Medical Board of SA)

Job description

Join SALHN as Head of Unit providing senior clinical and operational leadership across General Medicine at Flinders Medical Centre, setting clear standards for patient care, safety, and outcomes.

As an experienced Senior Clinician, you will collaborate with the Clinical Director to ensure efficient operation, lead in quality improvement, and provide supervision and training for Trainee Medical Officers while managing budgets and capital works in partnership with the Clinical Director.