Job description
Agency Department of Health Work unit Royal Darwin and Palmerston Hospitals
Job title Divisional Director – Women, Children and Youth Designation Senior Staff Specialist Clinician SMO2.1 - SMO2.3
Job type Part time (19 hrs per week) Duration Fixed from 01/12/2025 for 3 years
Salary $270,033 - $298,705 Location Darwin
Position number 1000 RTF Closing 14/10/2025
Contact officer Dr Danika Thiemt on or
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Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity and Special Measures recruitment plans
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making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or job, please discuss this with the contact officer.
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Primary objective
The Medical Divisional Director works in partnership with the Director of Nursing and Midwifery – Operations of the Division of Women, Children and
Youth across Royal Darwin and Palmerston Hospitals and is accountable for the safety and quality, financial and operational management of the Division.
The Divisional Directors, through strategic leadership and their membership of the RDH and PRH Executive Team, drive divisional performance, achieve
organisational targets and implement the highest standards of clinical and corporate governance within the NT Health Values. The Medical Divisional
Director will contribute to the overall leadership and management of RDH and PRH, and the achievement of the RDH and PRH Strategic Priorities.
Context statement
The Medical Divisional Director in partnership with the Director of Nursing and Midwifery – Operations of the Division of Women, Children and Youth
across Royal Darwin and Palmerston Hospital is accountable for the safety and quality, participation in planning, policy and strategy development, financial
and operational management of the Division. The position reports operationally to the General Manager Royal Darwin Hospital and professionally to the
Director of Medical Services, Royal Darwin and Palmerston Hospital.
Key duties and responsibilities
1. Lead the development, reform, coordination and delivery of cost-effective and integrated health services and delivery models across acute and primary
care sectors in collaboration with other sector leaders.
2. Ensure a culture of high performing teams, professional excellence, and accountability within the NT Health Values Framework, across all streams and
Divisions to improve patient care and outcomes.
3. Drive an environment of quality improvement and clinical outcome measurement through clinical audit and review to promote continuous quality
improvement across the Division.
1. Lead patient flow, demand management and other operational strategies across the Division to achieve organisational targets and objectives.
2. Ensure human resource responsibilities across the Division, including the direct supervision of medical staff, allocation of duties, establishment of
rosters, performance management of staff and monitoring staffing levels, workloads and hours worked.
6. Be accountable for divisional financial management, and efficiencies and allocation of resources.
1. Ensure the coordination of research, teaching and training programmes, and contribute to NT Health and national clinical leadership in the relevant
specialty areas.
8. Follow defined service quality standards, work health and safety policies and procedures in order to ensure high quality, safe services, and workplaces.
1. Foster a positive workplace culture through exemplary leadership practices and role modelling behaviour.
Selection criteria
Essential
1. Eligible for specialist registration with the Medical Board of Australia with Fellowship of a Medical College.
2. Demonstrated extensive relevant professional experience at a senior level in an acute tertiary setting.
3. Demonstrated high level ability to provide strategic leadership, deliver business and clinical service plans and outcomes in a complex hospital
environment, with the demonstrated high level ability to lead, negotiate, implement and drive organisational change in support of the achievement of
strategic and operational goals.
1. Demonstrated high level knowledge and experience of continuous quality improvement principles and their application.
2. Demonstrated high level ability to operate effectively in an environment of ongoing change and uncertainty and to create a flexible environment that
enables others to meet changing demands in a dynamic multi-disciplinary environment.
6. Demonstrated high-level ability to contribute effectively as a member of the RDH and PRH Executive team, with use of advanced communication,
interpersonal, conflict management and negotiation skills to maximise productive working relationships with the executive management and the
multidisciplinary teams.
1. Demonstrated high level ability to engage with and develop relationships with key stakeholders within and outside of the organisation including an
ability to interact effectively with people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
1. Demonstrated ability to manage human and financial resources in an environment of competing demands.
2. Demonstrated ability to manage conflict to promote cooperation, teamwork and understanding in undertaking challenging, demanding and complex
work.
Desirable
1. Completion of qualification in Health Management and/ or Leadership.
Further information
Department of Health has a Smoke Free Policy. Staff are not permitted to smoke anywhere on Departmental premises, facilities, or vehicles, nor whilst
working off-site. Positions may be subject to pre-employment checks such as immunisation requirements, working with children clearance notice and
criminal history checks. A criminal history will not exclude an applicant from this position unless it is a relevant criminal history. More information on pre-
employment checks specific to this role can be sourced through the vacancy contact.