Clinical Director Acute Care

Job Description:

St Vincents Virtual & Home Bringing Care Home

Location: Sydney Melbourne or Brisbane
Employment Type: Permanent parttime (0.4 FTE)

Help redefine hospitallevel care beyond hospital walls.

St Vincents Health Australia is bringing care home. Through our Care at Home program we are extending safe hospitalgrade acute care into homes and communities supported by digital monitoring strong escalation pathways and contemporary clinical governance.

We are seeking a Clinical Director Acute Care to provide senior clinical leadership across this rapidly evolving portfolio. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced acute care clinician to shape how highacuity care is safely delivered outside traditional hospital settings without compromising standards decisionmaking or outcomes.

The Opportunity

With dual reporting to both operational and clinical leadership you will provide authoritative acute clinical leadership for hospital substitution and virtual acute care models across St Vincents. You will ensure acute care delivered in the home is clinically appropriate tightly governed and operationally aligned with emergency perioperative and inpatient services enabling innovation while maintaining the highest standards of safety and quality.

What Youll Do

Clinical Leadership & Governance

• Define patient selection criteria risk thresholds and escalation pathways for acute care at home
• Provide senior clinical oversight for complex or highrisk cases
• Establish clear readmission and deterioration response frameworks

Model of Care Design

• Codesign acute admissionavoidance and postprocedural pathways
• Embed evidencebased acute practice within virtual and digitally supported models
• Integrate monitoring alerting and escalation into everyday care delivery

Stakeholder Leadership

• Partner with ED surgical anaesthetic medical and ICU outreach leaders
• Drive alignment across hospital and communitybased teams
• Represent acute care at executive and governance forums

Workforce & Capability

• Mentor and support clinicians delivering acute care in distributed environments
• Strengthen clinical decisionmaking capability outside traditional hospital settings
• Champion a culture of safety clinical excellence and accountability

About You

You are a respected senior clinician who brings both clinical authority and systemlevel thinking.

Essential

• Fellowship with a relevant College (RACS ANZCA RACP or ACEM)
• Current AHPRA registration
• Extensive experience in acute care decisionmaking and clinical governance
• Strong background in managing deterioration escalation and complex risk
• Proven ability to lead across specialties and services

Highly Regarded

• Experience in hospitalinthehome virtual wards or acute careathome models
• Exposure to digital health or remote monitoring technologies
• Involvement in acute care innovation or quality improvement

Why St Vincents

At St Vincents care is an act of love for the people we serve and for each other. Guided by compassion excellence integrity and justice we are building a connected system of care that allows clinicians to practice at their best wherever care is delivered.

Youll be part of shaping a national missionled transformation helping Australia receive better fairer acute care closer to home.

Ready to Apply

If youre motivated by purpose and excited by redefining how acute care is delivered wed love to hear from you.

Please submit your CV and cover letter. Applications will be reviewed as received and may close early.

Additional Information

Employment is subject to preemployment checks including required immunisations.

St Vincents Health Australia is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Closing Date:

Reconciliation Action Plan:

At St Vincents we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming safe equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

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