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Clinical Director, Oral Health Service
Hunter New England Local Health DistrictPosted 2 hours ago
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Lead the Future of Public Oral Health
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Area Direct Oral Health Clinical Service Level 2
Remuneration: $243,696 + Superannuation + Salary Packaging
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ692602
Location: Newcastle
Applications Close: Thursday, 24th September 2026
Clinical Director Oral Health Service
Hunter New England Local Health District
Lead the Future of Public Oral Health
Hunter New England Oral Health Service is seeking an experienced and motivated leader to join our executive leadership team as Clinical Director. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of public oral health services across one of Australia's largest and most diverse health districts. Working in partnership with the District Manager Oral Health, you will provide strategic and clinical leadership to a geographically dispersed workforce, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality and patient-centred oral health services to our communities.
About The Role
As Clinical Director, you will provide professional leadership across the Oral Health Service and play a key role in driving clinical excellence, innovation and service performance. You will lead clinical governance, workforce development, quality improvement and strategic service planning while maintaining a strong focus on patient outcomes, access to care and sustainable service delivery. This senior leadership position combines executive-level responsibilities with the opportunity to maintain clinical practice and influence the future direction of public oral health across Hunter New England.
Key Responsibilities
You will
We are looking for an accomplished dental practitioner who can demonstrate:
✅ Extensive clinical experience and advanced competence in general dentistry, including management of complex cases.
✅ Proven senior leadership experience within a clinical service environment.
✅ Strong clinical governance, quality improvement and patient safety expertise.
✅ Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing workforce performance.
✅ A demonstrated ability to deliver strategic change, service improvement and innovation.
✅ Knowledge of public oral health services and NSW oral health priorities.
✅ Outstanding communication, stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills.
✅ A commitment to developing a positive workplace culture and delivering exceptional patient outcomes.
Requirements
Click apply online, submit your information and resume, and address the criteria listed below providing examples that demonstrate your ability.
Information For Applicants
Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description (link below). For assistance addressing selection criteria visit: https://bit.ly/3vL5fq2
Stepping Up Website is a resource designed to help indigenous job applicants apply for positions in NSW Health. For more information, please visit: https://bit.ly/HNEHealthSteppingUp
This is a Category A position. Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive PD2024_015: Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases for Category A positions prior to offer. All new employees must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in the policy.
Salary Packaging: is beneficial to most Hunter New England Health employees and may increase your take-home pay! Salary package a range of personal expenses including novated motor vehicle leases, relocation expenses, and HECS/HELP debt. Find out more by contacting SalaryPackagingPLUS! via nswhealth@salarypackagingplus.com.au or 1300 40 25 23
Hunter New England Health employees may be eligible for a range of benefits such as allocated days off (ADO) for full time employees, long service leave, paid maternity leave, and salary packaging options including meal expenses.
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Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Area Direct Oral Health Clinical Service Level 2
Remuneration: $243,696 + Superannuation + Salary Packaging
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ692602
Location: Newcastle
Applications Close: Thursday, 24th September 2026
Clinical Director Oral Health Service
Hunter New England Local Health District
Lead the Future of Public Oral Health
Hunter New England Oral Health Service is seeking an experienced and motivated leader to join our executive leadership team as Clinical Director. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of public oral health services across one of Australia's largest and most diverse health districts. Working in partnership with the District Manager Oral Health, you will provide strategic and clinical leadership to a geographically dispersed workforce, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality and patient-centred oral health services to our communities.
About The Role
As Clinical Director, you will provide professional leadership across the Oral Health Service and play a key role in driving clinical excellence, innovation and service performance. You will lead clinical governance, workforce development, quality improvement and strategic service planning while maintaining a strong focus on patient outcomes, access to care and sustainable service delivery. This senior leadership position combines executive-level responsibilities with the opportunity to maintain clinical practice and influence the future direction of public oral health across Hunter New England.
Key Responsibilities
You will
- Provide strategic clinical leadership across the Hunter New England Oral Health Service
- Lead clinical governance, patient safety, quality improvement and accreditation activities.
- Partner with the District Manager Oral Health to deliver organisational priorities and Ministry of Health performance targets.
- Drive workforce planning, recruitment, retention and professional development strategies.
- Lead initiatives that improve patient access, patient flow and service efficiency.
- Provide expert advice on complex clinical matters, incidents, complaints and risk management.
- Foster a culture of excellence, accountability, innovation and patient-centred care.
- Build strong partnerships with universities, Aboriginal Medical Services, private practitioners, community organisations and other key stakeholders..
We are looking for an accomplished dental practitioner who can demonstrate:
✅ Extensive clinical experience and advanced competence in general dentistry, including management of complex cases.
✅ Proven senior leadership experience within a clinical service environment.
✅ Strong clinical governance, quality improvement and patient safety expertise.
✅ Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing workforce performance.
✅ A demonstrated ability to deliver strategic change, service improvement and innovation.
✅ Knowledge of public oral health services and NSW oral health priorities.
✅ Outstanding communication, stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills.
✅ A commitment to developing a positive workplace culture and delivering exceptional patient outcomes.
Requirements
- Registration with the Dental Board of Australia.
- Eligible to drive in NSW with a current unrestricted NSW Drivers Licence and willingness to travel for work purposes
- An eligibility list will be created for future permanent full or part time vacancies.
- To be eligible for employment in this position you must be an Australian Citizen, or permanent resident of Australia, or a New Zealand citizen with a current New Zealand Passport, or hold an appropriate visa that allows you to live and work in Australia. Employment of a temporary visa holder will only be offered in line with the conditions and expiry date of your visa.
- We are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for applicants requiring a visa for this position.
Click apply online, submit your information and resume, and address the criteria listed below providing examples that demonstrate your ability.
- Extensive experience and high level competence in general dentistry, including highly developed skills in the management of complex clinical cases.
- Senior leadership experience within a clinical service environment, supported by advanced interpersonal, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, manage resources, and address performance, conduct, and complaint matters while maintaining high standards of patient centred care.
- Demonstrated strategic and innovative problem-solving ability, including the management of complex clinical, service delivery and operational challenges.
- Extensive experience in clinical governance, policy development, quality improvement, and audit, with a proven record of leading NSQHS Standards compliance and continuous quality improvement across multiple clinics or services.
- Strong knowledge and understanding of national and NSW oral health priorities and contemporary operations of public dental services, with a demonstrated commitment to the underlying principles of the NSW Oral Health Access Policy Directive, a population approach to Oral Health and to a well-developed program of clinical governance to support clinical practice.
- Highly developed organisational and time management skills, with demonstrated ability to utilise clinical, administrative and digital information systems to support clinical governance, service planning, performance monitoring and quality improvement.
- Click here for the Position Description
- Find out more about applying for this position
Information For Applicants
Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description (link below). For assistance addressing selection criteria visit: https://bit.ly/3vL5fq2
Stepping Up Website is a resource designed to help indigenous job applicants apply for positions in NSW Health. For more information, please visit: https://bit.ly/HNEHealthSteppingUp
This is a Category A position. Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive PD2024_015: Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases for Category A positions prior to offer. All new employees must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in the policy.
Salary Packaging: is beneficial to most Hunter New England Health employees and may increase your take-home pay! Salary package a range of personal expenses including novated motor vehicle leases, relocation expenses, and HECS/HELP debt. Find out more by contacting SalaryPackagingPLUS! via nswhealth@salarypackagingplus.com.au or 1300 40 25 23
Hunter New England Health employees may be eligible for a range of benefits such as allocated days off (ADO) for full time employees, long service leave, paid maternity leave, and salary packaging options including meal expenses.
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