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Darling Downs Health is seeking a visionary Director Governance to lead transformative initiatives that ensure safe, high-quality, and compassionate care across our diverse regional health service. This is your opportunity to step into a pivotal leadership role where your expertise in governance will directly impact patient outcomes, organisational culture, and system-wide excellence. What Your Day Will Look Like In this influential role, you''ll guide a dedicated Governance Unit and work closely with clinicians, executives, and community partners to embed best practices in safety, quality, and risk management. Your day will be rich with purposewhether you''re shaping policy, responding to clinical incidents, mentoring future leaders, or championing open disclosure and compassionate conversations. You''ll use data and research to inform decisions, foster a restorative just culture, and ensure that every voiceespecially those of patients and familiesis heard and valued. Every action you take will contribute to a culture of trust, learning, and continuous improvement across Darling Downs Health. Let''s talk about you! Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following: Compassion engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support, and understanding. Integrity be open, honest, approachable, equitable, and consistent in everything we do. Dignity treat others with respect, display reasonableness, and take pride in what you do. Innovation embrace change and strive to know more, learn more, and do better. Courage 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 30 facilities, caring for nearly 300,000 people, supporting the birth of almost 3,000 babies, and performing over 15,000 breast screens. We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity. We are committed to a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace. Benefits Competitive wages, salary packaging, and leave entitlements A diverse work culture Career and professional development opportunities Education, Study, and Research opportunities Paid parental leave Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Discounted Private Health Insurance Fitness Passport Work-Life Balance, Variety, and Flexibility Generous Salary Sacrificing Next steps Applicants should apply online and provide the requested documentation. Learn more about us! Work with Us | Rural Work with Us | Toowoomba #WorkDDHHS #therightfit Occupational group: Executive #J-18808-Ljbffr