Employment Type: Part Time
Location: Bunbury, WA
Application Close Date: 17/02/2026

Your Role

We are seeking a Director of Medical Services (DMS) to provide inclusive, strategic leadership that champions our Mission, Vision, and Values. This is an exceptional opportunity for a forward thinking leader to help shape medical services, strengthen governance, and foster a collaborative, innovative, and patient centred culture.

St John of God Bunbury Hospital is a 145 bed private hospital located on the Southwest Health Campus alongside Bunbury Regional Hospital, enabling both facilities to share key services and supports to deliver coordinated, high quality care.

Set on Western Australia’s stunning coastline, Bunbury offers an enviable lifestyle with a relaxed coastal atmosphere and expanding professional opportunities. Just a short drive from Perth, the city is known for its vibrant waterfront, friendly community, and the ability to balance meaningful work with time to enjoy what matters most.

We are offering a flexible part time position at 0.5 FTE (40 hours per fortnight). This opportunity is ideal for someone seeking part time work or a VMO arrangement that complements existing commitments to achieve full time hours.

The Director of Medical Services will drive innovative, responsive medical leadership and support the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in clinical governance and strategic decision-making. Key responsibilities include:

• Providing strong leadership to Medical Services, fostering trust and effective communication among medical practitioners, caregivers, and administrative professionals.
• Promoting clinical excellence and efficient, patient-centred care while upholding the highest standards of medical practice.
• Offering expert guidance to credentialed medical practitioners, hospital executives, and managers on medical service delivery.
• Overseeing systems and processes that ensure the highest standards of clinical safety, quality, and risk management, with a focus on:
• Clinical performance oversight, peer review, and addressing variations in practice.
• Accreditation, credentialing, and scope of practice in alignment with SJGHC Medical Practitioner Bylaws.
• Root cause analysis, clinical risk mitigation, and complaint management.
• Monitoring and addressing individual practitioner performance and ensuring compliance with relevant policies, legal frameworks, and best practices.
• Develop strong, collaborative professional relationships with referral hospitals, particularly the co-located Bunbury Regional Hospital, and tertiary hospitals to enhance patient access, experience and flow through the health system.
• Supporting the CEO in engaging with medical practitioners on credentialing, clinical performance, and strategic recruitment.
• Establishing robust communication channels to continuously advance clinical safety and quality.
• Leading external medical liaison with medico-legal bodies, coroners, and professional organisations as needed.

You are a registered Medical Practitioner with AHPRA and hold a Fellowship of a Royal Australasian College. You will bring a proven track record of clinical leadership, governance expertise, and the ability to achieve outstanding patient outcomes, operational efficiency, and service satisfaction in acute healthcare settings.

To succeed, you will need demonstrated expertise in change management, strong influencing skills, and a proven ability to cultivate a service-oriented culture that promotes excellent patient care and responsible stewardship, with a focus on innovation and productivity enhancements.

As an integral part of our hospital’s leadership team, you will bring experience in the application of quality and clinical risk management across Bunbury Hospital.

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

• Highly competitive salary and entitlements
• Generous Professional development allowance
• Short term subsidised accommodation
• Generous relocation allowance
• Permanent part time
• 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

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

All applicants are asked to submit a 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

More Information

For confidential enquiries, contact Jack Harding, CEO, Ph (08) 9722 1601

Applications Close 17 February 2026