• Ref #4801
• Miwatj Health Aboriginal Corporation
• Primary Health Care & Wellbeing Services
• North-East Arnhem Land & Darwin, NT
• $200,000 - $235,000

Miwatj Health Aboriginal Corporation (Miwatj Health) is a successful Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Service based in Nhulunbuy, North-East Arnhem Land. The organisation operates from seven clinics with 275+ staff providing comprehensive, culturally appropriate primary health care for some 8000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents in the region. The corporation also has offices in Darwin, where this role may be based.

Miwatj Health seeks to appoint a General Manager Health, reporting to the Chief Executive Officer as a senior leadership team member to strengthen the leadership, clinical governance, service delivery, financial management and strategic development of the organisation.

Expressions of interest are invited from experienced executives motivated to contribute to the next phase of Miwatj Health’s success in improving the health and well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the region. Applicant skills and experience sought include:

• Senior leadership in healthcare, ideally in primary health serving remote communities.
• Experience with the social determinants of health in remote communities and in using systems-based principles of population health, clinical governance, quality and service delivery to improve health outcomes.
• Strong financial skills, including grant and operations management, budgeting and financial reporting.
• Proven leadership, team building, mentoring, communication, motivation and management skills.
• Commitment to Aboriginal community control and self-determination, and to working effectively and respectfully with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
• Tertiary qualifications in business, finance, health, clinical or related disciplines.

For more information, contact Keith Mackay of KMSearch on 07 3289 6071 for a confidential discussion.

Applications will be evaluated as they arrive.