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 Berwick Hospital has a total of 202 beds, 8 operating theatres, a cardiac/vascular laboratory and six birthing suites. The hospital provides a wide range of services caring for inpatients, outpatients and day patients across a range of specialties including cardiology, maternity, medical and surgical, offering state of the art equipment and facilities to our rapidly growing community. The hospital has a 16 bed Critical Care Unit with 6 Intensive Care beds and 10 Cardiac/HDU beds. Our aim is to deliver the very best in health care at our Berwick Hospital.

Your role at St John of God Berwick Hospital
An exciting opportunity presents to join the Maternity Leadership team at St John of God Berwick as the Maternity Unit Manager. Initially a 6-month period with the possibility to extend enabling a great introduction to an extraordinary team/organisation.

You will be responsible for leadership and management of the department/unit, optimising patient safety, quality of care and experience, operational efficiency and contributing to the strategic objectives of the Directorate. Performing the role of Maternity Unit Manger involves supporting and leading the team across antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal and special care nursery care.

The successful candidate will support the team clinically across all areas mentioned in addition to ensuring all administration expectations are achieved. The position leads the successful "Joy" maternity program which provides a private hospital maternity service in a collaborative team.

Working hours are 76 hours per fortnight Monday to Friday.

St John of God Berwick Maternity Unit welcomes 900-1000 babies into its care per annum with the values of excellence, respect, compassion, hospitality and justice at the heart of all our care.

The Position:

• Monitor standards of service and practice against benchmark targets, including nurse sensitive indicators, incident management system data, clinical indicator results and patient, doctor and caregiver satisfaction results. Where benchmarks are not met, design, implement and evaluate responses.
• Support and participate in the ACHS accreditation process/regulatory assessments, as well as group-wide and divisional Quality and Clinical Risk Management programs.
• Foster a clinical culture of interdisciplinary collaboration to improve patient outcomes.
• Ensure that patients and consumers are actively involved in relevant planning and decision-making processes.
• Works in a clinical capacity within the department as required, to support caregivers, medical officers and to ensure the delivery of safe, person-centred care.
• Ongoing financial management and monitoring of the service cost centre including, productivity, activity and utilisation in line with budgetary parameters and performance targets.
• Promotes and demonstrates a culture of innovation and improvement to enhance patient care and experience.
• In consultation with Hospital Management Committee, actively contributes to marketing the service to Medical Practitioners
• Participates in the implementation and maintenance of a workforce model/model of care that enables quality of care to be maintained as well as implementing appropriate levels of workforce skills.

You will have a registration with Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia (AHPRA) as a Registered Nurse/Registered Midwife; you will demonstrate commitment to quality improvement, including the ACHS EQuiP process and clinical risk management and proven ability to exercise sound judgement in clinical, management and ethical issues.

To succeed you will have contemporary management and leadership experience in a Senior Nursing position in an Acute Hospital Facility. Recent Birth suite experience is preferable, with RANZCOG FSEP level 3 practitioner, in addition to management qualifications and/or Special Care Nursery experience.

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

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

We will offer you

• Salary: $127,128 per annum plus 11.5% superannuation.
• Fixed term full time position available (from December 2025 to April 2026)
• 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
• Dynamic multidisciplinary team

For enquiries contact Amanda Owen, Nurse Unit Manager, on (03) 8784 5373.

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.