STUART SCHNEIDER
UNE Adj A/Prof B.Sc., Dip.Ed., B.Ed. (Mon)., M.H.P. (UNSW)., Dip. Corp. Dir. (UNE)., FCHSM., FAICD., C.H.E. CEP.
Industry & Sector Experience
- • An experienced health executive with over 35 year’s success at senior level in health administration mostly as a Chief Executive Officer. Extensive experience in Australia and Asia (currently a Hospital CEO with VAMED international) in creating functionally integrated health networks for improved service delivery and developing strategies to meet the health service needs of very large populations.
- • His leadership of complex health services has resulted in changes to culture, financial outcomes and health service delivery benefits to rural and metropolitan communities that remain today. Working closely with boards, staff, consumers, carers, stakeholders and many communities, he has produced sustainable improvements by creating innovative solutions for quality service delivery; improved client outcomes and implementing comprehensive strategic plans inclusive of clinical and corporate governance frameworks.
- • As a key health executive during a number of government health reforms, he developed the ability to contextualize the climate and grasp the opportunities as they arise. Examples include implementing the largest health & education broadband network in Australia at the time, establishing new programs for aboriginal communities, leading the way for residential care for couples, proposing and achieving significant organisational and policy change for contemporary, efficient and quality improved functionally integrated health and aged care services and achieving major health workforce recruitment strategies.
Key Competencies and Attributes
- • Outstanding academic and professional qualifications including Master of Health Planning.
- • Outstanding contemporary strategic leadership, management, change management, communication skills, interpersonal and analytical skills.
- • Extensive experience working with Boards at both organisation and area health service level, community/stakeholder engagement, local, State and Federal levels of Governments.
- • Strong emphasis on Strategic Planning, Population Health/Service Planning, Facilities Master Planning, Business Planning, Corporate/Clinical Governance, Continuous Quality Improvement/Risk Management and operational management.
- • Long history of achievement in reverting organisational dysfunction, financial deficits, poor quality systems and unresponsive organisations through cultural transformation.
- • Demonstrated skills at managing multi-site organisations up to 1 billion operational budget and major capital works projects totalling 2 billion including the relocation of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute in Melbourne Australia.
- • Awarded the 2009 Australasian College of Health Service Management Gold Medal for Leadership and Achievement in Health Services Management for Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and Hong Kong.