Director of Medical Services – Murdoch

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Murdoch (Perth)
Application Close Date: Monday 23 June 2025

Where you’ll be working

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 a 511-bed hospital located South of Perth and recognised as one of the leading providers of private health campuses in Western Australia and is a major health care hub serving the southern region. The reputation for excellence in clinical care and first-class tertiary level services makes it the hospital of choice for both medical professionals and patients.

About the Role

Your role at St John of God Murdoch Hospital

St John of God Health Care (SJGHC) is seeking a visionary Director of Medical Services (DMS) to provide inclusive leadership that champions our Mission, Vision, and Values. This is an exceptional opportunity for a dynamic leader to shape clinical excellence, strengthen governance, and cultivate a collaborative, patient-centred culture as a key member of the Hospital Management Committee (HMC).

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.
• 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, coroner

We can offer you

• Highly competitive salary and entitlements
• Generous Professional development allowance
• Permanent Full time
• 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

About You

You are a registered Medical Practitioner with AHPRA and hold a Fellowship of The Royal Australasian College of a Royal Australian 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 have demonstrated skills and acumen in change management and ability to influence people and the proven ability to foster a service ethos culture that encourages sound patient care and stewardship, focussing on innovation and productivity improvements.

As an integral part of our hospitals leadership team you will demonstrate experience in the application of quality and clinical risk management within a hospital/health service environment, along with demonstrated knowledge of and ability to achieve ACHS Accreditation.

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

More information

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

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For confidential enquiries, contact Ben Irish, CEO, Ph 0499 989 696

Applications close: Monday 23 June 2025