Delivering an Executive Search to Appoint a Chief Medical Officer for a Regional Health Service in Victoria
The appointment brought extensive leadership experience across diverse health settings, strengthening medical governance and strategic capability.
The Brief
The Process
• Targeted Candidate Search: Leveraged extensive health sector networks across Australia and New Zealand, and conducted a digital advertising campaign including the RACMA newsletter.
• Candidate Assessment: Engaged in dialogue with sector leaders to identify and encourage high-potential candidates.
• Final Evaluation: Coordinated logistics for in-person interviews across multiple jurisdictions.
Emerging Capabilities
Cultural Engagement
Fosters a positive culture, creating a sense of belonging and inclusiveness. Creates an environment that encourages diverse perspectives and facilitates a psychologically safe environment.
Communication and Influence
Articulates messages with clarity and impact to build understanding, inspire action, persuade others and enable information exchange. Considers the audience and draws on different styles to create impact.
Stakeholder Relations
Establishes rapport with stakeholders, builds and sustains trusted and collaborative relationships. Identifies and draws on relevant and diverse perspectives and integrates them to support productive interactions.
Personal Growth
Adopts a growth mindset, building self-awareness. Motivated to continuously develop personally and professionally - one's own knowledge, skills, and personal attributes and self-insight. Reflects regularly on ways to improve self, regularly evolving self, focusing on the whole person.
Critical Thinking
Gathers and examines different data points, testing for assumptions and gaps in logic; reframes problems and presents well-reasoned insights considering diverse perspectives. Analyses, interprets and objectively evaluates information enabling judgements.
Strategy and Purpose
Develops and leads strategy for the function /organisation, taking a broad and long-term perspective. Understands and considers context. Communicates and gains buy-in to the function/organisation goals, direction and vision, promoting change initiatives.
The Outcome
The process resulted in a successful appointment a Chief Medical Officer in September 2022. A Fellow of RACMA, brought extensive executive experience across tertiary, quaternary, urban, regional, and rural health services. The appointees expertise in medical leadership, postgraduate education, and health informatics was recognised as a strong fit for the organisation’s strategic needs.
