Chief Medical Officer

The Royal Melbourne Hospital

The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) is one of the largest health providers in Victoria, providing a comprehensive range of specialist medical, surgical, and mental health services; as well as rehabilitation, aged care, outpatient and community programs.

Our care extends from the City through Royal Park and 32 mental health services across the north-western suburbs of Melbourne. We are a designated Statewide provider for services including trauma, and we lead centres of excellence for tertiary services in several key specialties including neurosciences, nephrology, oncology, cardiology and virtual health.

At The RMH we’re inspired by our vision of Advancing health for everyone, every day. We put people first — leading with kindness and working together, we excel as one Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Reporting to the Chief Executive, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is responsible for contributing to the strategic and effective leadership of the RMH and leading the medical workforce to the next level of professional development and leadership. As a member of the Executive Team, the CMO will contribute to the development, alignment and engagement of our people to achieve the organisation’s strategic directions and operational priorities.

We are seeking interest from recognised leaders who have the capacity to provide visionary and strategic leadership to a large medical workforce. They will demonstrate a commitment to the way services are delivered to patients and consumers, focussing on safe, timely, effective and person-centred care. Importantly, we will be seeking to understand how each candidate has successfully developed and implemented organisational change initiatives which lead to continual improvement within the clinical setting. Candidates will bring medical qualifications and current registration with the Medical Board of Australia.

For further information and a confidential discussion about the position, please contact Kylie Taylor or Jenny Sutton from Odgers Berndtson Executive Search, who are advising The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Kylie Taylor, Senior Researcher, +61 406 340 920, kylie.taylor@odgersberndtson.com

Jenny Sutton, Partner, +61 402 548 703, jenny.sutton@odgersberndtson.com

Applications close Wednesday 20 July 2022 must be submitted via the Odgers Berndtson website www.odgers.com/86286