Your new role:

As the Director of Clinical Governance and Strategy, you will provide expert clinical leadership and strategic oversight to drive excellence in safety, quality, and service delivery across Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services. You'll influence system-wide improvement, digital transformation, and restorative culture while collaborating with senior leaders to shape future models of care.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the implementation of evidence-based clinical governance frameworks across MSAMHS.
• Providing strategic direction and expert advice on quality, safety, and service improvement initiatives.
• Overseeing accreditation, risk management, and clinical performance reporting.
• Driving digital transformation and reform in line with Restorative Just Culture principles.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with executive leaders, government, and community partners.
• Leading multidisciplinary teams and fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability.

About you:

You are a values-driven leader with exceptional clinical governance expertise and a passion for quality and innovation in mental health. You thrive in complex environments and bring strategic insight, collaborative leadership, and evidence-based decision-making to everything you do.

You'll demonstrate this with:

• Proven leadership in clinical governance, safety, and quality within a large health service or mental health context.
• High-level communication, influencing, and relationship management skills across multidisciplinary and stakeholder groups.
• Expertise in leading change, digital reform, and strategic improvement initiatives.
• Ability to lead, mentor, and empower teams to achieve performance excellence.
• Strong analytical and data-informed decision-making capability.
• Relevant tertiary qualification and professional registration (postgraduate qualifications in improvement science or risk/change management highly regarded).

Check out our quick tips and application essentials!

What we can offer you:

• Leadership within one of Queensland's largest and most innovative health services
• Opportunities to influence service design, strategy, and system-wide improvement
• Flexible working arrangements that support work–life balance
• A supportive executive team committed to collaboration, innovation, and excellence
• Career development pathways and the chance to contribute to statewide initiatives
• A workplace culture grounded in integrity, respect, compassion, and excellence
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.