Description:

This hospital is dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of women and newborns, offering specialist services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health. Within women’s health, they are a leader and an advocate in areas that are often overlooked or stigmatised, such as pregnancy termination, endometriosis, menopause and women’s mental health. Their goal is to be the best place to work, learn and contribute, and to provide exceptional experiences for our patients and consumers.

About Their Maternity Services:

• Their maternity service is one of Australia’s largest with over 7,600 babies born last year at this hospital. They provide a range of models of care to including team care, Midwives in Small Teams (MIST) and caseload midwifery in our COSMOS program.
• As a tertiary care provider, midwives also have opportunities to work within the Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM) unit, providing midwifery assessment, support and birthing care to women who are high risk and experiencing complex psycho-social pregnancies.

About the role:

• Their model of care has a focus on midwives operating at their full scope of practice with an even greater emphasis on midwifery-led care. You will deliver high quality care to patients and families across both low risk and complex cases.
• You’ll be supported to learn and grow in a warm and friendly environment that offers excellent professional opportunities, amazing camaraderie and a strong focus on providing outstanding care to women and babies.
• The hospital are committed to using the social model of health to ensure we acknowledge, understand and respond to the individual needs of women. This means our midwives are part of multidisciplinary teams that actively encourage the empowerment of women and their right to make informed decisions about their health.

What you can expect:

• Midwife to patient ratios (1-to-1 in Birth Centre; 1 to 4 mothers on Postnatal Wards and 1 to 6 on Night Duty)
• Flexible working hours to help you balance work and life commitments
• Support to grow your career, including education and training, scholarship and research opportunities as well as the option to work across other departments to learn new skills including our Special Care Nursery, Women’s Emergency Care and Maternal Fetal Medicine
• Up to six weeks’ annual leave per year,
• A competitive salary based on experience
• Relocation assistance to the value of $10,000 AUD

What we’re looking for:

• We’re seeking passionate and experienced AHPRA Registered Midwives to join the Women’s across our range of pregnancy care models, including:
  • Midwives willing to work across the continuum
  • Midwives in small teams program
  • One-to-one midwifery caseload program
  • Home birth (coming soon)
  • Inclusion and belonging

Candidates must have:

• A degree/ diploma in midwifery
• Have AHPRA registration or are eligible for AHPRA registration
• Minimum of 2 years of experience recent acute experience in the above specialty area
• Fluent in English
• Strong clinical skills

If you are interested in this role, please get in touch with Zoe Lawlor today -

Email: zoe.lawlor@cplhealthcare.com

Telephone: +35345907109 or +353874078773