Job Description

Director Corporate Services | St Andrews War Memorial Hospital

Make a meaningful difference with St Andrews War Memorial Hospital

Reporting to the General Manager, the Director of Corporate Services plays a pivotal role in providing strategic leadership and management across the hospital’s corporate services functions.

As a key member of the Executive Leadership Team, you will drive financial performance, operational excellence, and commercial outcomes while supporting the delivery of high-quality, compassionate care aligned to UnitingCare’s mission and values.

This role is accountable for leading financial strategy, enhancing business performance, and ensuring the effective delivery of corporate services including finance, patient administration, supply, facilities, and support services.

Your part in our team

As Director Corporate Services, you will:

• As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, contribute to key organisational decisions to ensure effective hospital operations

• Lead financial management, budgeting, forecasting, and capital planning to support organisational performance and sustainability

• Drive strategic and operational initiatives through business case development, financial analysis, and project leadership

• Lead and optimise corporate services functions including finance, patient administration, supply, facilities, and support services

• Monitor financial performance, identify improvement opportunities, and implement strategies to enhance efficiency and revenue

• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, external partners, and service providers

• Lead commercial activities including contract negotiation, third-party performance management, and health fund engagement

• Mentor and develop leaders to build capability across financial and operational management

• Contribute to strategic planning, innovation, and continuous improvement across the hospital

What makes a difference for us?

You will bring:

• Extensive senior leadership experience in finance, corporate services, or a similar executive role

• Tertiary qualifications in Accounting, Business, or related field (MBA and CPA/CA highly regarded)

• Demonstrated experience in financial management, budgeting, and organisational performance improvement

• Proven ability to lead teams, influence stakeholders, and drive outcomes in complex environments

• Strong commercial acumen with experience in contract negotiation and managing external partnerships

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage at Executive and Board level

• Experience in healthcare or private hospital sector (desirable)

• Knowledge of healthcare funding models, including casemix and health fund contracts (desirable)

What makes a difference for you?

• NFP Salary Packaging: Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum. To learn more about this benefit watch the video via the following link: Salary Packaging Explained

• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance

• A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs

• 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme

• Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events

• Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference 

• A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others

We’d love you to be part of our UnitingCare family

By joining our Hospitals, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. The second-largest Queensland employer, we’re a proud not-for-profit with more than 17,500 staff and 9, 000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, and have been leading by example for more than 100 years. Our team are compassionate, inclusive and committed to the work we do, helping people live life in all its fullness.

Child safe, Child friendly

UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:

• provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children

• implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services

• appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur

• abide by the Child Safe Standards and adhere to the Reportable Conduct Scheme  

Diversity & Inclusion

Our approach is simple – everybody is welcome here.  At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.  

Safe workplace

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.  

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed in creating services and workplaces that are welcoming and safe for every person. We work together to protect children, young people, adults and the elderly from harm within our services and the communities we support. We speak up for their safety to ensure their voices are heard. Our recruitment and workplace practices reflect our dedication in preventing abuse, harm and exploitation across UnitingCare.