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Our hospitals offer graduate nurses and midwives in Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales a range of exciting opportunities within a supportive environment.
Explore our Pathways to Practice graduate programs
Why choose St John of God Health Care?
At St John of God Health Care, we support you to be the best health care professional you can be.
Starting your career with us
Our 12-month Pathways to Practice graduate programs sets you up for success in your first year of nursing or midwifery and beyond. Here's what's on offer when you join us as a graduate...
Community
You’ll form lasting connections with other caregivers who will support you to become the best health professional you can be.
Your future
You’ll be supported to transition into clinical practice and advance your career.
Impact
Make a difference in the lives and experiences of patients, their families and the communities we serve.
Recognition
We recognise and reward excellence at all stages of your career.
Work life balance
We support your wellbeing with flexible work options, generous leave and an employee assistance program.
Live our mission
We offer hospitality, hope and healing to all in our care and to the people who choose to work with us.What this means for a St John of God Health Care graduate is:
- Connection with your fellow graduates cohort through small group coaching sessions and feeling supported, valued and welcomed as a team member.
- Investment in your future through the Pathways to Practice program, designed to support your clinical workplace learning within a variety of settings.
- Part time and full time positions with exposure to a range of clinical rotations.
- Increased confidence to deliver patient centred care, offering hospitality and compassion and the positive impact you make to patients and their families.
- A comprehensive orientation program, including supernumerary time followed by intensive clinical support from dedicated clinical preceptors to support your transition into clinical practice.
- Opportunity to develop, grow and advance your career through supported pathways, scholarships and professional development in the future.
Find out more about the benefits of working with us.
What our graduates say about us
Click on the profiles below to discover what our graduates say about us.
Applications for graduate programs
We recruit for our graduate nursing and midwifery programs twice a year.
Key dates
Applications are now open for our mid-year 2025 intake at Bendigo and Geelong. See our careers portal to apply today.
Please register your details below to keep up to date on future graduate news at our other Victorian hospitals.
Applications for our mid-year 2025 and February 2026 intakes across our WA hospitals are now open via GradConnect, closing on 19 March.
Applications for our 2025 intakes at our NSW hospitals are now closed. Please register your details below to keep up to date on future graduate news.
Register your interest for graduate programs
Please register your interest to hear more about our graduate programs, including key dates for application intakes.
Available to:
- Registered nurses
- Enrolled nurses
Our registered and enrolled nurse graduate program is designed to give you a diverse range of experiences across a variety of specialties in a supported and caring environment, including:
- Acute medical care
- Acute surgical care
- Emergency care
- Intensive care
- Maternity care
- Orthopaedics
- Palliative care
- Paediatrics
- Rehabilitation
Where can I do this program?
Western Australia
- St John of God Bunbury Hospital
- St John of God Geraldton Hospital
- St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals
- St John of God Mt Lawley Hospital
- St John of God Murdoch Hospital
- St John of God Subiaco Hospital
Victoria
Available to:
- Registered nurses
- Enrolled nurses
Our mental health graduate nurse program is designed to expose you to a range of clinical experiences within the mental health setting. Our dedicated and skilled interdisciplinary mental health teams will support you to become a mental health nurse equipped to help vulnerable clients and patients on their journey to recovery, by focusing not only on their psychological wellbeing, but also their physical and spiritual wellbeing.
You will have the opportunity to be exposed to a variety of mental health services such as:
- Inpatient mental health
- Drug and alcohol services
- Perinatal mental health
- Psychiatric outpatient programs
Where can I do this program?
Western Australia
*Opportunities exist to complete graduate rotations across both hospitals.
Victoria
New South Wales
Available to:
- Registered midwives
Our graduate midwife program is designed to give you a variety of experiences as a graduate midwife within a supported, nurturing and rewarding environment. Our program supports graduate midwives to provide high quality care in all aspects of pregnancy, birth and postnatal care on our maternity wards, our birth suites, our antenatal clinic and services, in addition to caring for our babies in our special care nurseries. For dual registered graduates, opportunities exist to rotate across general wards to consolidate your nursing qualification in addition to your midwifery.
Where can I do this program?
Western Australia
- St John of God Geraldton Hospital
- St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals
- St John of God Murdoch Hospital
- St John of God Subiaco Hospital
Victoria
Available to:
- Registered nurses
- Enrolled nurses
Our perioperative program is designed to give you a range of clinical experiences within the perioperative environment. It includes rotations in the scrub/ scout role, anaesthetics, and the post anaesthetic care units (PACU). Our dedicated and skilled perioperative teams will support you to provide excellent clinical care at all stages of the perioperative journey, from pre-surgery, in theatre and post-surgery.
You will have the opportunity to be exposed to a variety of surgical specialties such as:
- Cardiothoracics
- Acute surgical care
- Emergency surgery
- Neurosurgery
- Orthopaedics
- Paediatrics
Where can I do this program?
Western Australia
Victoria
Register your interest to be notified via email about key dates for applications and recruitment.
We offer roles across registered nursing, enrolled nursing and registered midwifery in most of our hospitals in Victoria, Western Australia and New South Wales.
When applications open, we will list our current opportunities on our careers portal.
To apply for a role, you will need to create an account (if you don't have one already) and submit your application online via our careers portal*. Prior to applications opening, you can be organised by preparing documents including:
- resume
- cover letter
- statement addressing the selection criteria
- evidence of citizenship/ residency status
- academic transcript
- Further information about the specific application requirements, will be detailed once application open. This is when you can tailor application documents to the role requirements.
*Please note that graduate program applicants for our Western Australian hospitals need to apply via GradConnect.
Once applications have closed, the hiring manager will review your application against the selection criteria for our graduate programs.
If you are shortlisted, our team will contact you. You will also be notified if you are not successful.
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to complete a brief online questionnaire to understand your motivators and strengths.
Suitable applicants will be progressed to complete an online or in-person interview. In some circumstances you may also be invited to attend a face-to-face interview.
We’ll let you know how to best prepare for your interviews and what to expect.
If you are successful in progressing to the next stage of our recruitment process, our team will request you submit a clinical placement report and/or seek your permission to contact at least two of your professional referees.
At St John of God Health Care, we put our patients and clients at the centre of our care and want every caregiver to have the same commitment to ensuring a safe environment for everyone who walks through our doors.
With this in mind, there may be some pre-employment documents to submit, however, we will advise you if and what documents we need.
We will get in touch to formally offer you the role. This will include
- start date
- remuneration
- terms of employment
- orientation information.
Read the relevant position description to make sure you understand what is expected of you to demonstrate through the application process.
- Cover letter
- Keep your cover letter to one page.
- Explain why you are interested in joining St John of God Health Care.
- Provide examples of how your behaviours align to the Mission and Values of St John of God Health Care.
- Resume/CV
- Education history, including completed and in progress qualifications.
- Placement experiences including skills demonstrated and achievements linked to the Standards for Practice .
- Employment history outlining relevant jobs, skills and achievements.
- Professional development, including relevant certifications.
- Extracurricular activities and or volunteering experiences.
- Assessment centre
- There is no right or wrong answer. Select the answer that best reflects how you would typically behave or respond.
- We are wanting to understand more about your motivators, strengths and any development needs.
- Interviews
- Be yourself, the interview panel is curious to know why you want to join our team.
- Consider what you wear as a first impression.
- Be on time.
- Allow time for parking.
- Know who is interviewing you.
- Video interviews:
- Complete the video interview within the timeframe outlined in the invitation.
- Smile and look at the webcam when speaking.
- Tell people you are completing a video interview and not to interrupt.
- Consider your background and what is in view of the camera.
- Use a headset to assist with sound quality.
The online application process may take some time to complete. It is recommended that candidates have all attachments ready before commencing their online application and submit the application before the closing date and time. Do not leave it to the last hour before applications close as late applications will not be accepted.