Manager Perioperative Services

 Welcome to St John of God Health Care 

 
St John of God Health Care (SJGHC) is one of the largest private providers of health care services in Australia, employing more than 16,000 employees (caregivers). We operate 26 hospitals and services comprising more than 3,300 hospital beds, including home nursing, disability services and social outreach programs. 

Join St John of God Midland Private Hospital as the Manager Perioperative Services a pivotal leadership role responsible for delivering best-practice clinical outcomes for patients, Visiting Medical Officers (VMOs) and caregivers.  

This role provides strategic and operational leadership across perioperative services, ensuring excellence in clinical practice, person-centred care, effective resource stewardship and strong stakeholder relationships. You will lead quality, safety and performance outcomes by monitoring clinical standards against benchmarks, including nurse-sensitive indicators, incident data and satisfaction measures, and implementing improvement actions where required.  

The role will initially assist with commissioning of the new hospital and play a key part in accreditation and regulatory processes, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and ensuring patients and consumers are actively involved in planning and decision-making. With accountability for financial and workforce performance, you will manage budgets, productivity, rostering, on-call and overtime practices, while overseeing recruitment, retention, succession planning and workforce models of care.  

Working closely with hospital leadership, you will contribute to service development, marketing to medical practitioners, and the delivery of innovative, high-quality perioperative services that meet current and future demands. 

You will bring senior nursing leadership experience within an acute hospital environment, with proven capability to lead and delegate effectively, manage budgets and operational performance, and foster positive, service-focused team cultures.  

You apply sound judgement and strong change leadership, with the ability to manage risk, balance competing priorities and confidently use digital systems to support the delivery of safe, high-quality care. 

Above all, patient care will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values. 

About the new Midland Private Hospital

• A brand-new purpose-built state-of-the-art facility, currently under construction, located just 300 metres from the St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals Campus.

• A comprehensive range of medical and surgical services, with interventional cardiology being offered for the first time in the region

• The hospital will feature:

  • 96 overnight inpatient beds, including a six-bed critical care/high dependency unit.

  • 33-bed/chair short stay and day procedure unit

  • Eight operating theatres.

  • A cardiac/vascular catheter laboratory

We can offer you

• Salary: $145,914 per annum, plus 12% Superannuation  

• Permanent Full-Time position, working Monday to Friday 

• Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:

  • Novated leasing 

  • work related expenses

  • self-education and

  • additional superannuation

• A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave and well-being programs

• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance

• Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Access to a range of Lifestyle, Health & Wellbeing rewards and discounts

For enquiries, please contact Emma Cook, Director of Nursing on 0401 219 384