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Practice Manager resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what practice managers actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most practice managers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Practice Manager with experience running the operational and financial side of a healthcare clinic, from staff rosters and budgets to compliance and patient systems. Comfortable being the point of contact between practitioners, patients and external agencies, and confident making decisions that keep a clinic running smoothly day to day.
Key skills
- Operations management
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Financial reporting
- Regulatory compliance
- Staff rostering and recruitment
- Best Practice / Medical Director software
- MYOB or Xero
- Patient scheduling and EHR systems
- Stakeholder management
- Problem solving
Experience: example bullet points
- Managed staff rosters and recruitment for clinical and administrative teams, reducing gaps in shift coverage during peak periods
- Prepared monthly budgets and financial reports for the practice owner, identifying cost savings in supplier contracts
- Coordinated the shift to electronic health records, cutting patient check-in time and reducing filing errors
- Led compliance reviews against privacy, health and workplace safety requirements, closing identified gaps ahead of accreditation visits
- Acted as first point of contact for practitioners, patients and suppliers, resolving scheduling and service issues before they affected patient care
- Oversaw invoicing and Medicare billing processes, reducing the rate of rejected claims
Education
Typical entry is via a Diploma of Practice Management, Diploma of Business or Diploma of Health Administration, though many Practice Managers move into the role from senior clinic administration or reception roles and build on this with a Bachelor degree or postgraduate qualification in health or business management over time.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- Practice Manager
- RACGP accreditation standards
- AHPRA
- Privacy Act 1988
- Workplace health and safety (WHS)
- Fair Work Act
- Medicare Benefits Schedule
- Best Practice software
- Medical Director
- MYOB
- Xero
- Electronic health records (EHR)
- Patient scheduling systems
- Clinic budgeting
- Staff rostering
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.