Medical Director (See Advertisement)

at  Ambulance Victoria

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Various
Job type: Part time
Organisation: Ambulance Victoria
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Medical and Nursing
Reference: AV/1788697
At Ambulance Victoria (AV) we are proud to share our commitment to save and improve lives by providing outstanding care for our patients. It is our promise to every patient and sits at the heart of everything we do. No matter what role you play in delivering our critical services to the Victorian public, you join an organisation dedicated to bringing a vision of ‘Outstanding emergency health care every time’ to life.

Ambulance Victoria is currently seeking a suitably experienced senior leader for the position of Medical Director on a six-month fixed-term basis, part time (0.5 - 0.7 FTE).
A key member of the Executive and working closely with the Chief Executive, this position is responsible for driving the clinical vision in line with our strategic plan. The Medical Director leads the team responsible for ensuring that paramedic practice in AV is evidence based, and also provides specialist clinical practice advice to the Chief Executive and AV Senior Executives.

With an ability to effectively work with the senior clinical and operations leadership team to create and oversee integrated clinical governance systems that maintain and improve the quality of AV’s patient care, this position is critical to:-

• Building key relationships within key stakeholders, including health service partners, professional colleagues and academic partners, to foster a shared ethos of research and education to deliver high-quality, evidence-based pre-hospital care
• Contributing, as a member of the Executive, to the development and implementation of AV’s strategic plan and objectives whilst providing expert and strategic advice on clinical practice trends, issues and risks
• Identifying research and clinical practice changes, new and innovative models of care, and emerging technologies that will contribute to enhancing service operations or the delivery of clinical care to patients
• Enabling AV to respond to selected complex patients and major incidents
• Positioning AV in the health and emergency service systems as experts in delivery of patient-focussed emergency/pre-hospital healthcare to the Victorian community
• Providing open and effective leadership to build a high-performance, collaborative culture that fosters continuous improvement and professional development
• Leading and contributing to a safe, lawful, and respectful workplace culture through the modelling of ethical and positive behaviours consistent with the AV values