St Vincent's Private Hospital Werribee

St Vincent’s origins go back more than 180 years - when the first five Sisters of Charity arrived in Australia.

Since then, we’ve become the nation’s largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider, providing better and fairer care across Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.

Are you ready to kick start your nursing or midwife career?

Applications for our 2025 Registered Nurse and Midwife Program are now open.

Our 12 month program provides new graduate nurses with the opportunity to tailor and explore 2 x 6-month rotations across one of our four locations in Melbourne: Fitzroy, East Melbourne, Kew and Werribee. With extensive education support, paid study days and a choice of general and specialty rotations, we’re here to make sure your graduate year will be an exciting and rewarding experience.

Tatiana, a Registered Nurse from last year’s program shares with us her experience:

"I chose St Vincent’s Private Hospital Melbourne due to the many options provided for specialist rotations, including paediatrics which I was fortunate enough to rotate through. As well as the ongoing career opportunities such as now studying my Post Graduate Diploma at St Vincent’s Private Hospital in Midwifery and of course lovely colleagues"

To apply visit: https://www.svph.org.au/nurses/registered-nurse-graduate-program

This year, the world’s first 3D endoscopy was performed at St Vincent’s.

Associate Professor Bronte Holt, alongside a team of specialised endoscopy nurses in Melbourne, performed the first 3D Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) procedure – designed to treat achalasia, an oesophagus disorder that makes it difficult to swallow food and liquid.

“Using 3D imaging enhances the different layers of the gastrointestinal tract, as well as critical structures like the blood vessels and muscle fibres, and these details help us perform the operation with greater precision,” A/Prof Holt said.

We empower our nurses to reach their goals.

Our commitment to nursing training, upskilling, and opportunity is at the heart of St Vincent’s.

Whether it’s in specialty training, transitioning from sub-acute to acute care, post-grad courses, clinical placements or professional development – we’re ready to support you, challenge you and ensure you’re able to provide the very best care for our patients. Always.

📸 Perioperative Introduction Program (PIP) graduates at St Vincent’s Toowoomba.

Each year in Australia, more than 24,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer, making it the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the country.

As men’s health week kicks off today, we acknowledge the groundbreaking advances in diagnosis and treatment for prostate cancer at St Vincent’s - and the incredible work of our people like Professor Louise Emmett, Director of Theranostics and Nuclear Medicine at St Vincent's Sydney.

Professor Emmett’s work with PSMA-PET scans – a groundbreaking imaging test to detect prostate cancer – has been instrumental in developing more accurate methods of detection and treatment, picking up and targeting tumors where other types of scans may miss them.

For more than two decades, Dr Genni Newman has been treating patients with cancer.

“The nature of the relationship we have with our patients and the interactions continue to inspire me each day. I find it incredibly rewarding,” she says.

In her time at St Vincent’s Melbourne, she has extended her work within the Oncology Team to teaching, training and research.

One vital piece of advice she has for anyone considering a similar career path is “regardless of how busy you get, never lose sight of being human and kind in the way you help patients navigate their illness. It’s such an important step in guiding them on their journey.”

We had quite the surprise from a recent patient of ours, Ken and his wife Carolyn.

As a unique way of saying thank you to our caring nurses during his stay at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Werribee, Ken gifted us a hand made plaque to display on the ward.

“Bless our nurses for they have love to share, compassion to care, kindness to spare”

A wonderful gift that we all get to enjoy every day.

Andre is a firm believer that aged care is not a full stop – it's simply a new chapter in a person’s life – and should be fulfilling and enriching.

“It’s about being interactive. Life carries on, even in aged care,” say Andre Ramraj, St Vincent’s Care Admissions Coordinator.

For Andre, it’s the emphasis on community that makes this a reality. “Staff, family, and visitors all form a big family, creating a supportive environment that benefits everyone, not only residents.”

Now more than ever, we need to tackle the unfinished business of reconciliation.

Reconciliation among all Australians isn’t just something that’s “nice to have”. It’s the main game.

This May is Domestic Violence Prevention Month and we’re committed raising awareness and increasing resources to better prevent violence against women.

This year's theme is “it’s in our control to end coercive control”, shining a light on the complexity of domestic abuse and reminding us of our role in healthcare: to identify and support people experiencing abuse however they enter the healthcare system.

Adele Sheridan-Magro, Manager of Domestic and Family Violence Service in Sydney, has dedicated her career to making sure DV screening takes place across the hospital’s services.

“There should be no wrong door for a woman experiencing abuse and her receiving appropriate support from the healthcare system,” she says. “We’re pretty good at identifying when someone presents to emergency with clear physical violence – but it’s all the hidden ways that we need to keep looking for. All of the research tells us that women are more likely to disclose abuse – apart from a close friend or sister – to a medical professional, so we have to be informed and ready.”

Victoria is currently experiencing increased COVID-19 activity in the community, resulting in an increase in people being hospitalised with COVID-19. At the same time, we are seeing increasing cases of influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) as we head into winter.

Our hospitals are high-risk settings, and to keep our patients safe, there may be areas where masks are required to be worn.
If you are feeling unwell, please refrain from visiting the hospital and test if you have symptoms of respiratory illness.
Let's all work together to keep our community safe and healthy this winter season.

Close to three quarters of Australians would prefer to die at home, yet only around 15% do so. Providing palliative care at home is the St Vincent’s mission in action.

Our teams have skillfully enabled end-of-life care in people’s homes – meaning they support patients, provide pain management, and create a compassionate space for them and loved ones during what can be a challenging time.

“I’ve been in palliative care for over 20 years, and when people say, ‘that must be depressing’, my answer is ‘if I was a midwife, you’d say that’s lovely’,” Tom Hoyland, Nurse Practitioner at St Vincent’s Melbourne says.

“It’s just the other end of the spectrum of life, that’s all.”

Volunteers are an essential part of the St Vincent’s family and the impact they make is immeasurable.

Across our sites and services, we have more than 1,000 volunteers who selflessly dedicate their days to making our patient and resident experience better. From helping someone find their way through the hospital, keeping patients' company, contributing to games and activities for our residents, or even bringing therapy dogs to our services – our volunteers dedicate countless hours to those in our care.

Thank you to all of our volunteers! We are grateful for you. Always.

Yesterday we celebrated International Nurses Day, with a special Afternoon Tea for all of our hard-working nurses 🍰☕

With custom cupcakes, decorations, gifts and celebrations galore, a very big thank-you to Bank First and Pinchapoo who together with St Vincent's Foundation - Victoria joined forces to deliver over 100 Pamper Packs to our dedicated nurses.

Containing an assortment of health and beauty products, the packs were very well-received by our nursing team, most of whom, after spending their days providing such dedicated and compassionate care to others, assured us they would certainly be putting their goodies to good use, with some very well-deserved R&R! 😌

A lovely way to spend the afternoon, we again say a very big thank-you to all of our nursing teams and hope you all had a great International Nurses Day 👏💜

It’s Heart Week! A week to raise Australia’s national heart health awareness ❤️ ❤️

An important reminder from St Vincent’s Private Hospital Werribee Cardiologist, Dr Deepak Haikerwal to start a conversation about heart health and take positive steps to reduce the risk of heart disease.

Heart Health checks are simple 20-minute check-ups with a GP to assess your risk of having a heart attack or stroke in the next five years.

To find out more about cardiac care and services visit: https://brnw.ch/21wJyTa

A network outage is currently affecting IT and telephone lines across our hospitals.
We are working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible.
Please use the following numbers to reach the hospitals.

EAST MELBOURNE: 0417 230 756
FITZROY: 0409 187 300
KEW: 03 9851 8888 - not affected
WERRIBEE: 0417 176 695

Across our two major public health networks in Melbourne and Sydney, around one-in-five patients and one-in-three of all patient interactions relate to a person who is experiencing disadvantage. The St Vincent’s commitment to serving and supporting marginalised people and communities goes beyond our health and aged care services and extends into the research environment.

Associate Professor Vijaya Sundararajan and her team are engaged in research across St Vincent’s, providing us with the evidence-base to advocate for better and fairer care for vulnerable Australians.

John Bissett is our Indigenous Physiotherapist at Sydney Public, helping patients regain their confidence one step at a time.

“I have been involved with a chronically ill patient for a long time, who had a neurological disease. I saw them for roughly 2 - 3 months, twice daily, to assist them with day-to-day needs. This person stood up for the first time about a month ago and seeing it firsthand, and then showing the family and seeing how hopeful they were, was extremely worthwhile. It made me appreciate the team I work with, the support they provide, and how we all work so hard together to make sure everyone is given their best shot.”

Hundreds of St Vincent’s clinicians and team members served our country during wartime. Some made the ultimate sacrifice.



As Australia pauses today to remember our ANZACs, we ask you to keep those brave former St Vincent’s colleagues, our patients and our fellow Australians – who served and died in the care and protection of others in your mind.



Lest we forget.

St Vincent’s Virtual & Home service provides a diverse range of health and aged care services across NSW, Victoria, Queensland, and nationally with a focus on acute, rehabilitation, palliative care, virtual and community care.

Today, St Vincent’s Virtual & Home delivers more than 180,000 physical and 250,000 digital episodes of in-home care each year, the equivalent of 200 virtual hospital beds.

Marita Bautista is one of our at-home aged care nurses, whose love of community drives her everyday work.

“For me, nursing is a calling – and it's a joy for me to serve these people.”

Come and say hello to our Nursing and Midwifery Team at the Australian College of Nursing Expo today!

We can answer your questions about our St Vincent’s Private Melbourne 2025 programs across our four hospitals, East Melbourne, Fitzroy, Kew and Werribee.

Our team is here at The Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre until 2.30pm today. And don’t forget, if you can't make it, go to our Careers website to discover more about career opportunities at St Vincents Private Hospital.

https://brnw.ch/21wIZZQ

Congratulations to Werribee VMO, Dr Sanam Waris who was awarded our Values in Practice award. Dr Sanam’s nominations were glowing in her warmth, compassion, excellence and living the hospital values every day.

Dr Sanam is an outstanding HMO at Werribee. The care she gives to patients is superb and she listens carefully to patient’s concerns and acts to provide the best compassionate care to all.

She lives the value of integrity every day at work. Even on very busy days she manages to have a smile on her face, and checks-in on the well-being of the team.

Well done Dr Sanam!