The Executive Director, Women’s and Newborn Services holds a key executive leadership role in the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and functions as the single point of accountability for the Service Line’s leadership and management in the delivery of safe and quality care within available resources.

The service oversees approximately 5,000 births each year and provides comprehensive care across Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Obstetric Medicine, the Grantley Stable Neonatal Unit, and the Neonatal Retrieval Service (NeoRESQ). Additionally, it encompasses subspecialties such as Gynae-oncology and Maternal-Fetal Medicine. These clinical services also contribute to a range of research initiatives, including those led by the Perinatal Research Centre.

The Executive Director is the single point of accountability for ensuring that the Service Line strives to deliver on the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital vision to be a world class academic tertiary and quaternary Health Centre, underpinned by an expanding research program, and commitment to innovation and best practice in clinical education and training.

This successful applicant will carry out the following key accountabilities in accordance with the Metro North Health’s values:

• As an executive member of the Facility, the Executive Director is required to identify with, and respond to facility-wide issues in a way which constructively recognises the interdependency of Service Lines, and the critical importance of a coherent organisational focus and shared vision.
• In this capacity, they are responsible for ensuring that the full range of services provided by Women’s and Newborn Services is of a high quality, where safety and effective care is at the forefront of clinical practice.
• The Executive Director is responsible for the governance, leadership and culture of Women’s and Newborn Services. This requires them to establish and monitor systems which provide feedback about standards of performance to ensure that they are fully informed in relation to key areas of risk and opportunities to achieve best practice performance.
• Consistent with Women’s and Newborn Services adoption of a corporate organisational structure, the Executive Director is responsible for ensuring that services are planned and delivered in a manner which supports coordination of care across the continuum, and which recognises the interdependency of service provision with other Service Lines, other Metro North and state-wide health facilities, and relevant stakeholders.

View the full scope of these in the Position Description.

It is an essential condition of employment for this role for the successful incumbent to be, and remain, vaccinated against COVID-19 (Health Employment Directive No. 12/21 and Queensland Health Human Resources Policy B70.

• Whilst not mandatory, clinical experience and/or professional registration or membership with an appropriate authority will be well regarded.
• Whilst not mandatory, a relevant qualification would be desirable.
• It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against the following vaccine preventable diseases during their employment (Health Employment Directive No. 01/16):

Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR)
​Varicella (chicken pox)
​Pertussis (whooping cough)
​Hepatitis B
​Tuberculosis

The ideal applicant will be someone who can demonstrate the following values within the context of the key accountabilities:

• Respect – demonstrates interpersonal savvy, manages conflict appropriately, communicates effectively and balances the needs of all stakeholders with utmost respect to all people at all times.
• Teamwork – collaborates effectively, develops talent, values difference and builds effective teams to bring about best use of resources to deliver healthcare services.
• Compassion – is patient / client focussed, demonstrates self-awareness and the effects of behaviour on others, deals with or manages ambiguity and complexity, demonstrates resilience in the delivery of patient services or support in the delivery of services to patients.
• High Performance – cultivates innovation, is action oriented, drives results and supports Metro North Health’s vision and purpose to exceed expectations of our patients and stakeholders.
• Integrity – demonstrates sound decision quality, ensures accountability, demonstrates courage in the face of adversity and works effectively / manages complexity to ensure work output and decisions are ethical and invariably of a high standard.

To apply for the role, the applicants must prepare an address of the following Selection Criteria:

1. Leadership: Demonstrated strategic and executive leadership capability, with proven experience in achieving transformational outcomes within complex clinical environments, including experience in managing health services that support women and children.

2. Health Management: Ability to manage large scale and complex health service programs, including the ability to develop strategy, provide effective finance management, and resources oversight.

3. Clinical Governance: Demonstrated ability in the development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of strategies designed to advance quality, safety, governance and risk in health service delivery.

4. Culture: Proven track record of high achievement in creating a high-performance culture, fostering cohesive services and multidisciplinary teams that value performance, improvement, collaboration, and innovation.

5. Health Equity: Demonstrated commitment to closing the gap and inequities in the health and long term wellbeing of infants, children, young people and women, particularly those who are most at risk. An ability to relate to and work with First Nations communities to develop culturally safe and sensitive health care solutions that create improved health care outcomes.

The Executive Director reports directly to the Executive Director, RBWH. It is expected that this partnership will support the Executive Director’s achievement of performance expectations and outcomes.

This role will work directly with the RBWH Executive team, Nursing and Midwifery Director (Women’s Newborn Services), Business Manager and Clinical Directors. The Executive Director supervises approximately 593 FTE.

Multi-classified position:

• HES2 (High):
  ​$256 051 - $276 661 Per annum
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• SMO: L18 to L24 and L25 to L27
  ​$357,998 - $408,969 Per annum (L18-L24) plus $33,660 per annum Clinical Managers Allowance (CM7) (Full time equivalent) (SMO)
  ​$424,290 - $447,015 Per annum (L25-L27) plus $33,660 per annum Clinical Managers Allowance (CM7) (Full time equivalent) (SMO)
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Major challenges currently associated with the role include:

• Leadership of a large, complex organisation in a matrix management environment will require a highly skilled system leader, with an understanding of the interface between system governance, political oversight and consumer engagement.
• Metro North seeks to not only be the most efficient and effective, patient centric healthcare system in Queensland but also the kindest. Leading and embedding this cultural expectation will require dedicated and exemplary efforts both individually and collaboratively as part of the executive and wider organisation.
• Meeting community expectations with growing demands and fiscal and workforce constrains. Support the delivery of patient-centred, cost-effective, high-quality services within RBWH and across the wider Metro North network.

Service Location: Herston, Queensland

HES2 (High)
​SMO: L18 to L24 and L25 to L27

Metro North Website
​Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
​Metro North Executive Structure
​Team Structure

The closing date for applications is Tuesday, 25 March 2025

The reference number to include in your application is H25_5008

Note: Please use the online platform to submit your application. It will not be accepted via email.

If you require assistance in submitting your application online, please get in touch with Executive Search Coordinator, Bradie Hammat: M: +61 (0)417 882 900 / E: [email protected]

Your application must include:

1. 1.Cover letter addressed to the Principal Consultant;
2. 2.A written response addressing the key selection criteria; and
3. 3.An up to date copy of your Curriculum Vitae.

It Is standard practice for HardyGroup to acknowledge receipt of your application no later than the next business day. We request that if you do not receive the acknowledgement, you contact the search coordinator listed above as soon as possible after the 24-hour business period and arrange to resend your application if necessary.

For a confidential discussion, please contact:

Lynette Taylor
​HG Executive Director - Search & Recruitment

M. +61 (0)431 293 861
​E. [email protected]

Sarah Buckler
​HG Queensland State Manager

M. +61 (0)429 486 740
​E. [email protected]