Director Clinical Governance

Shape the future of safe, high-quality healthcare as the Director of Clinical Governance with Darling Downs Health in Toowoomba. This pivotal leadership role drives excellence across patient safety, quality improvement, and clinical governance systems—empowering teams to deliver compassionate, evidence-based care that makes a real difference across our region.What Your Day Will Look Like….You'll lead a passionate and high-performing team dedicated to advancing clinical governance and embedding a culture of safety, accountability and learning. Your day will be spent collaborating with executive leaders, clinicians, and consumers to strengthen systems that improve patient outcomes and experiences. You'll oversee clinical incident management, support continuous improvement initiatives, and champion open disclosure and compassionate conversations across the health service. Every decision you make will help shape a culture of integrity, innovation and trust—ensuring Darling Downs Health continues to provide exceptional, person-centred care to every community it serves.Let's talk about you!Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:Compassion – you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.Integrity – you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.Dignity – you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.Innovation – you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.Courage – you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up.Why Us?Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect. DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.Benefits!Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlementsA diverse work cultureCareer developmentProfessional development opportunitiesEducation opportunities, Study and ResearchPaid parental leaveEmployee Assistance Program (EAP)Discounted Private Health InsuranceFitness PassportWork-Life Balance, Variety and FlexibilityGenerous Salary SacrificingNext step….Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.Find out more about us! Work with Us | RuralWork with Us | Toowoomba#WorkDDHHS #therightfitOccupational group Management