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Message from the Chief Operating Officer

2024-03-11T12:19:15+10:008 March 2024|Executive Messages, Chief Operating Officer|

Adj. Prof. Jane Hancock, Chief Operating Officer

Adj. Prof. Jane Hancock, Chief Operating Officer

Cang Dang, Executive Director, Redcliffe Hospital

Cang Dang, Executive Director, Redcliffe Hospital

Appointment of Executive Director, Redcliffe Hospital

After an extensive recruitment process, I am pleased to announce Mr Cang Dang has been appointed as Executive Director, Redcliffe Hospital and will commence in the role on Tuesday 2 April 2024.Cang is an experienced senior healthcare leader, most recently as Chief Operating Officer for West Moreton Health. He has held executive and senior leadership roles with the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service, Children’s Health Queensland, Queensland Department of Health, and Toowoomba Health Service District. His leadership experience includes leading significant change programs, workforce planning and design, health service operations and performance, infrastructure operationalisation, and health equity.

Cang has qualifications in physiotherapy and health management. He has worked clinically as a physiotherapist at the PA Hospital and served as a clinical educator for UQ and Griffith University.I’d like to thank Louise O’Riordan for leading Redcliffe as the Acting Executive Director, Redcliffe Hospital for over 12 months. Louise has led Redcliffe through the early stages of Design Development for the Redcliffe Redevelopment as well as supporting the team to be the first of our hospitals that has achieved Short Notice Accreditation with ACHS. I am sure you will join me in thanking Louise for all of her work in the role and welcoming Cang to this new role.If you have any questions in relation to this announcement, don’t hesitate to get in touch.

OV Incident Response Kit

Late last year I hosted an occupational violence forum with 100 staff from across Metro North to hear your feedback and ideas on what we can do to ensure all of our workplaces are safe. Thank you to everyone who participated. My office is working through the notes from the forum and putting together a draft action plan for feedback.One thing we can do is make sure that when there is an occupational violence incident, we know how to respond and appropriately support our colleagues. The OV Incident Response Kit was developed by the Queensland Occupational Violence Strategy Unit (QOVSU), hosted by Metro North. Each site across Metro North has its own localised Incident Response Kit – you can access them via the desktop icon.QOVSU works with all HHSs across Queensland to implement strategies to reduce occupational violence. You can see an overview of initiatives on QHEPS.

Acting COO

I will be taking some planned leave from 11-19 March. Glynis Schultz will be Acting Chief Operating Officer during this period.Happy International Women’s Day!Warm regards,

Jane.

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