Nurse Practitioner, Acute Care

This is an exciting opportunity to join St John of God Midland Private Hospital at the opening of the hospital in August 2026 as a Nurse Practitioner, Acute Care.

As an expert clinician, you’ll provide advanced assessments, diagnostics, therapeutic interventions and prescribing within your scope. You’ll work closely with Visiting Medical Officers and the multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, evidence-based care while leading improvements across the service.

You will be part of a founding clinical team, contributing to the establishment of best practice models of care while delivering safe, effective and patient centred critical care services.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead advanced, holistic patient assessments and clinical decision-making.

• Initiate diagnostics, develop management plans and prescribe safely.

• Provide expert leadership during medical emergencies and deterioration reviews.

• Support and guide the multidisciplinary team with specialist knowledge.

• Drive innovation, quality improvement and evidence-based practice.

• Contribute to education, clinical guideline development and service enhancement.

You will be an endorsed Nurse Practitioner with a strong background in acute care and a passion for delivering high-quality, evidence-based practice. Your ability to lead confidently, communicate effectively and collaborate across disciplines will be essential to your success in this role.

You will bring sound clinical judgement, a commitment to patient safety and continuous professional growth, along with the drive to influence practice standards and contribute meaningfully to an engaged, high performing team.

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

About the new Midland Private Hospital

• A brand-new purpose-built state-of-the-art facility, currently under construction, located just 300 metres from the St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals Campus.

• A comprehensive range of medical and surgical services, with interventional cardiology being offered for the first time in the region

• The hospital will feature:

• 96 overnight inpatient beds, including a six-bed critical care/high dependency unit.

• 33-bed/chair short stay and day procedure unit

• Eight operating theatres.

• A cardiac/vascular catheter laboratory

We can offer you

• Salary: $137,294 to $164,360 (pro rata for part time) plus 12% superannuation

• Permanent Part time, contracted hours to be negotiated up to 70 hours a fortnight

• 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

• Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Access to a range of Lifestyle, Health & Wellbeing rewards and discounts

• Employer Sponsorship visas offered to eligible nurses

For enquiries, please contact Eilish Russie, Deputy Director of Nursing on (08) 9370 9920

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.