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 Bendigo Hospital is a 122-bed contemporary private hospital located in central Victoria providing high quality acute medical and surgical health care services for people in Bendigo and surrounding areas.

Your role at St John of God Bendigo Hospital
You will be responsible for the operational management of the Allied Health teams for the hospital and have both leadership and management responsibilities, also carrying a clinical caseload.

The Position

• Manage the day to day operations of allied health services, ensuring that they are consistent with the Divisions strategic and operational objectives to deliver connected and consumer focused health care.
  
• Ensures that the workforce is rostered effectively to enable expert clinical services within the Clinical Services Plan and productivity forecasts.
  
• Monitors key performance and financial indicators and takes appropriate action to address variance.
  
• Uses advanced clinical knowledge and experience to develop, evaluate and improve allied health services and to assist the various allied health professionals to develop new services to meet changing needs and demands.
  
• As part of the hospital's senior clinical leadership team, the Manager Allied Health will work in partnership with other clinical units to ensure clinical and business objectives are met.
  
• Participate in Manager Meetings as well as relevant committees and working parties.
  
• Develop and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with relevant internal and external professional groups to build and enhance service delivery on a divisional and group-wide basis.

You will have relevant tertiary qualification in an Allied Health discipline, and registration or membership with the relevant Board or Association as required and significant contemporary experience in a senior Allied Health clinical position.

To succeed, you will demonstrate knowledge and ability to provide leadership in a complex, professional work environment and influence the achievement of required outcomes in areas of professional responsibility.

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:

• Novated leasing
• work related expense
• self-education and additional superannuation

• Salary: $ 143,596.05 per annum (pro rata for part time), plus 11.5% superannuation
• Permanent Full time position
• 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:
  
  
• 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
• Dynamic multidisciplinary team
  

St John of God Health Care embraces diversity and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing a safe environment for all children and vulnerable people in our care and proactively take measures to protect children/vulnerable people from abuse. .

For enquiries about this position, applicants should contact Elizabeth McEncroe, Director of Nursing on (03) 5320 2527
Application closes on 29th May 2025