Leaders in local health
St Vincent’s offer diverse career opportunities
The health sector is the largest employer in the Toowoomba region. St Vincent’s Private Hospital Toowoomba employs more than 700 staff in nursing, allied health, support services, administration, engineering and quality roles.
There are opportunities to change roles or progress your career at St Vincent’s Toowoomba. Anita Waite and Malcolm Casey are two long-serving employees who have had interesting careers at the hospital.
Anita was inspired to become a nurse after she ended up in hospital with a knee injury. Nursing had just become a university course after previously being undertaken as hospital training. Anita studied a Bachelor of Science (PreRegistration Nursing) at the University of Southern Queensland and completed her final clinical placement at St Vincent’s Toowoomba in the surgical ward. She was delighted to be offered a job, and was the first university trained nurse to be employed at St Vincent’s.
Anita went on to complete post-graduate training through Central Queensland University, and worked on medical, surgical, coronary care and intensive care wards at St Vincent’s. After sustaining a shoulder injury, she assisted with chart reviews for the Quality and Risk department. Having a keen eye and strong clinical knowledge meant Anita was offered a position completing chart reviews, audits, quality improvements and indicators.
Anita then undertook Clinical Governance roles for various divisions. These included the St Vincent’s Health
Australia QLD division, which saw her support all sites with incident management. She also covered 20 aged care facilities.
In late 2020 Anita accepted her current role as the Quality and Risk Manager. Her favourite part of her job is working with all the hospital departments.
“There is so much variety in this role, which means no two days are the same. St Vincent’s Toowoomba is lucky to have a progressive executive team that are always thinking about how we can ensure St Vincent’s is the best it can be.”
Malcolm has been the Director of Clinical Services for the last five years. He began his career at St Vincent’s Toowoomba as a 19year-old Assistant in Nursing, while studying a Bachelor of Nursing at the University of Southern Queensland.
Malcolm completed post graduate study and worked as a Registered Nurse for two years, before working as a Clinical Nurse in the orthopaedics ward and emergency department. At the age of 25, he took on the role of Nurse Unit Manager in Orthopaedics where he worked for 10 years.
He began an executive leadership course while working as a NUM and completed a Bachelor of Clinical Honours through the University of Tasmania. When the Director of Clinical Services role became available five years ago, Malcolm thought it would be an amazing opportunity.
“I enjoy working with hospital finance and the models of care within nursing. I work closely with the Nurse Unit Managers to make sure the wards are running smoothly.”
St Vincent’s Private Hospital Toowoomba advertises available roles on its website. As the largest acute private hospital on the Darling Downs, they employ both clinical and non-clinical staff.