Your role at St John of God HealthCare
Located in our modern Kings Square Office in the heart of Perth’s CBD, we are seeking an experienced and strategic Risk and Compliance Manager to join us in a permanent full-time capacity. You will support St John of God Health Care (SJGHC) in achieving its operational objectives through strong risk management and compliance leadership while contributing to the design and implementation of robust enterprise risk and compliance frameworks across the organisation, ensuring they are aligned with the Board’s risk appetite and organisational priorities.
As a key leader in the second line of defence, you will provide guidance and support to business units to ensure risk and compliance obligations are identified, managed, and embedded effectively. You will play a central role in delivering enterprise-wide programs that assess the effectiveness of our risk management, compliance, privacy, insurance, resilience, governance, and whistleblowing processes.
The Position
- Partnering with SJGHC Clinical Risk teams to ensure appropriate linkages between SJGHC’s clinical governance framework and SJGHC’s overarching ERM and Group compliance frameworks;
- Supporting caregivers to improve their understanding of SJGHC’s ERM and compliance frameworks through the delivery of training sessions; and
- Supporting the development of quality ERM and Group compliance reports and insights to the SJGHC Executive Committee (“ExCom”), Audit & Risk Committee (ARC) and SJGHC Board (“Board”).
- Ongoing support to the continuous improvement and maintenance of a robust and effective risk management and compliance frameworks
- Maintain and enhance SJGHC’s ERM and Group compliance frameworks including assisting in its implementation, monitoring and revision and its integration.
- Lead risk assessment workshops and identify the operational and strategic risks at both an organisational and divisional level, and related controls, strategies and treatment plans.
- Lead compliance review workshops and identify compliance vulnerabilities and/or failures, and work with relevant obligation owners to develop/implement corrective action plans, controls, and remediation strategies.
- Assess the adequacy of identified compliance plans and provide feedback and comments to obligation owners.
- Identify opportunities to establish consistency in compliance plans by adoption of Group-level approaches to common obligations and liaise with obligation owners to implement recommendations.
- Facilitate reviews and updates to Divisional compliance registers.
- Liaise with sponsors and external service providers to ensure delivery of the Internal Audit annual plan to budget and schedule.
- Prepare draft reporting for submission to the SJGHC Executive Committee (“ExCom”), Audit & Risk Committee (ARC) and SJGHC Board (“Board”).as well as ad hoc reviews and updates as and when required, e.g. for nominated major projects and new divisions.
- Engage across SJGHC to ensure that the ERM and Group compliance framework is adequately promoted, maintained and supported throughout the organisation, including training delivery to the divisions to assist in the embedment of a strong risk and compliance culture and understanding.
- Provide quality assurance review of finalised content for Divisional risk and compliance registers.
Position Requirements
We are looking for a team-focused, self-driven individual with previous experience in risk management, compliance, assurance, or audit (ideally within the health sector). You will bring a pragmatic approach, strong initiative, and a commercial mindset, with a passion for driving positive change. Demonstrated experience and expertise in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) frameworks, policies, strategies, and tools is essential.
The successful candidate will have strong written and verbal communication skills, with the proven ability to liaise with, influence, and consult across a broad range of stakeholders, including executive leadership. You will be highly organised, capable of managing competing priorities and delivering outcomes within required timeframes. A collaborative approach, well-developed consultation abilities, and a commitment to transparent decision-making will be key to your success in this role.
Above all, people will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.
We can offer you
- Salary: $154,169 to $171,339 per annum, plus 12% superannuation
- Permanent full-time position, working 76 hours per fortnight
- Located in our Perth office in Kings Square
- 40% work from home option
- Discounts on hospital services & 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
- 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)
- End of trip/shower and bike facilities
- Close to public transport
All applicants are asked to submit a covering letter (of no more than two (2) pages) demonstrating how you meet the above position requirements
For enquiries contact Tom Foskett, General Manager Risk & Compliance, on 0420 383 815.
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.