Welcome to St John of God Health Care

St John of God Health Care 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.

As a Catholic, not-for-profit group, we invest all profits to the communities we serve by updating and expanding our facilities and technology; expanding existing services and developing and acquiring new services; and providing Social Outreach services to people experiencing disadvantage to improve health and wellbeing.

St John of God Murdoch Hospital is one of the leading private health campuses in Western Australia, and major health care hub in the southern region. Offering 507-beds, services include an emergency department, operating theatres, endoscopy suites, birth suite and maternity ward, medical library and education center.

Your role at St John of God Murdoch Hospital

You will lead all elements of the clinical service provided within Main Theatres, through the effective management of clinical teams. This role focuses on service development including workforce provision, management and development in addition to quality and safety.

Our Perioperative Department now have a permanent full-time position available for an experienced Anaesthetic Recovery Clinical Nurse Manager to join our multidisciplinary team.

At St John of God Murdoch we now have 18 main operating theatres, an angio suite, endoscopy unit and Surgicentre. You'll be exposed to the latest in surgical technology, including robotics, and work with some of the highest calibre surgeons in Australia who are usually based onsite in our consulting suites.

Our Clinical Command Centre is the hub that oils the theatre machine, with information feeding into and out of a central location to co-ordinate patient flow, equipment and available beds in recovery and on the wards. Our super-organised CCC Team know exactly where patients are up to on their theatre journey at all times.

The Position

• Provide leadership and management of the Anaesthetic & Recovery teams
• Ensure appropriate workforce levels through recruitment and caregiver retention.
• Management and development of Clinical Nurses.
• Producing and managing the master rosters for these teams, to ensure resources are available when and where they are required for patient safety and care.
• Leading quality, safety and efficiency improvements across all of these areas.
• Actively monitoring and addressing all caregiver performance and/or behavioural issues, including performance management processes where necessary.
• Monitoring and taking action on all key caregiver metrics including turnover, absenteeism and recruitment gaps.
• Developing an empowered culture within the department, focused on patient safety & experience, caregiver engagement and service excellence.
• Ensuring all caregivers in the department are provided with learning and development opportunities and complete all mandatory formation and technical competencies.
• Ensure caregivers within the portfolio have performance development plans, where they are held accountable for meeting expectations and agreed goals that are reviewed at least annually.
• Accountability for financial management of the department within agreed productivity and salary rate targets.
• Provide clinical quality and safety leadership of the Scrub Scout / Anaesthetic & Recovery service
• Development of annual quality improvement plan.
• Delivery and evaluation of quality improvement initiatives to address areas of need.
• Identification of Learning and Development priorities and programs.
• Management of audit program and implementation of actions to address and issues identified.
• Monitors compliance with perioperative standards and procedures and initiates corrective action as required.
• Foster a clinical team culture of interdisciplinary collaboration leading to improved patient outcomes.
• Responsible for monitoring reported incidents and leading their investigation and resolution.
• Responsible for ensuring, as far as practicable, the provision of a safe working environment.
• Fulfils National Safety and Quality Health Services Standards requirements
• Responsible for accreditation and inspection readiness.
• Assist the Perioperative Services Manager to maintain accountability for the ongoing financial management and monitoring of service cost centres including productivity, labour management, activity and utilisation in line with agreed budgetary parameters and performance targets.
• Participates in the implementation and maintenance of a workforce model that enables quality of care to be maintained.

You will have well-developed leadership and communication skills, including negotiation and mediation, conflict resolution and problem solving. You will have demonstrated ability to develop and build effective nursing, medical and interdisciplinary relationships and teams. High analytical and report writing skills with knowledge of contemporary computer information systems will be essential for the role.

You will have a demonstrated understanding and commitment to quality improvement and the National Safety & Quality Health Service Standards process with current knowledge of legislative obligations for Equal Employment Opportunity, Disability Services and Occupational Safety Health and how these impact on employment and service delivery.

To succeed you will hold registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia as a Registered Nurse with relevant anaesthetic post registration and advanced clinical experience within a Perioperative care setting.

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

We can offer you

• Salary: $132,322, plus 11.5% superannuation
• A permanent full-time position working 38 hours per week
• 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 & well-being programs
• Access to gym membership, fitness and wellbeing benefits through Fitness Passport for you and your family.
• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance
• Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Innovative Professional Development opportunities
• Travel Green allowance. If you walk, carpool or use public transport you could be eligible for up to $1,500 per year

All applicants are asked to submit a current CV and covering letter (of no more than two (2) pages) demonstrating how you meet the above position requirements.

At St John of God Health Care, we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Our commitment is to create a safe and nurturing environment for all children and vulnerable individuals in our care and proactively take steps to protect them from abuse, ensuring their safety and well-being. Our inclusive culture fosters an environment that is respectful and secure, welcoming and accessible, and unified through our diverse community.

For enquiries contact James Tilbury, Deputy Director of Nursing, on (08) 9428 8608.

Applications will be reviewed throughout the advertising period and interviews conducted regularly. Apply today!

Applications Close: 8th May 2025