Workforce Lead

Darling Downs Hospital & Health Service; Toowoomba Regional; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Queensland seeks a candidate to collaborate with executives and project teams in designing workforce models for the new hospital's opening. The ideal candidate demonstrates compassion, integrity, and innovation while leading a dedicated team. This position offers competitive salaries, education opportunities, and a supportive work culture.

Benefits

Competitive wages

Education opportunities

Paid parental leave

Employee Assistance Program

Discounted Private Health Insurance

Fitness Passport

Work-Life Balance

Generous Salary Sacrificing

Qualifications

• Ability to engage with others and demonstrate empathy and care.
• Open, honest, and approachable demeanor.
• Respectful treatment of others and pride in work.
• Willingness to embrace change and learn.
• Confidence to speak up and ask questions for clarity.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with executives and project teams to design workforce models.
• Align governance, culture, and staffing for new hospital readiness.
• Influence major decisions and foster partnerships across the health service.

Skills

Compassion

Integrity

Dignity

Innovation

Courage

Job description

Darling Downs Hospital & Health Service – Toowoomba QLD

You'll collaborate closely with executives, clinical leaders, and project teams to design and implement innovative workforce models that reflect the future of healthcare delivery. Your work will span strategic discussions and hands‑on coordination — aligning governance, culture, and staffing to ensure readiness for the new hospital's opening. Each day brings the opportunity to influence major decisions, guide change, and foster partnerships across the health service, all while leading a dedicated team committed to building a strong, engaged workforce for generations to come.

Let's talk about you!

Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:

• 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 breast screens.

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.

• Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
• 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

Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.