Assistant In Midwifery (Aim) Women’s Children And Family Health Nslhd

Where you'll be working

• Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) and Community Health Service is a 634 bed principal tertiary referral centre. It is close to the CBD and transport facilities, accommodation, recreational and childcare facilities are available. Specialities include: Surgery, Medicine, Women’s & Children’s Health, Critical Care Services - ED State Trauma Centre, Operating Theatres, ICU General, Neurology/Neuroscience and Cardiology. State referral for Burns/Plastics, Neonatal Intensive Care, Interventional Neuroradiology and Acute Spinal Cord Injuries. RNSH has a commitment to person centred care, supporting our staff in developing their skills with Clinical Nurse Educators available in all units.
• RNSH Midwifery- low to high risk maternity services, opportunity to work in outpatients, inpatient, birth unit and midwifery support program
• The Hornsby and Ku-ring-gai Health Service (HKHS) incorporates a 295 bed, major metropolitan hospital providing a comprehensive range of secondary level services, outpatient services, six community health centres and ten early childhood centres. There are a large range of departments and services in both acute care and community settings. These include acute Medical & Surgical wards, large operating suite department, Medical Assessment Unit (MAU), Rehabilitation, Maternity and Paediatric wards, Emergency & Intensive care Departments.
• Maternity – HKHS maternity Service is level 4 health facility providing antenatal, birthing and postnatal care .We offer a 14 bedded maternity unit with a special care nursery on site as well. We incorporate programs such as Towards Normal Birth and a Midwifery Group Practice Team. We offer specialised educational support to all staff as well.

What you'll be doing
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care in collaboration with individual/s and the greater health care team to achieve quality patient care outcome.
The NSLHD Nursing and Midwifery Workforce will be compassionate, competent, confident, contemporary, capable and committed to leading person-centred health care.

To provide quality woman centred, effective, evidenced based midwifery care in accordance with the ANMC National Competency Standards for the Midwife (2006) and to supervise the work of others as required.

The AIM will consult and liaise with the midwife, obstetric, medical and other appropriate staff under the supervision of a Registered Midwife, and is responsible for: provision of family centred antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care; provision of an optimal level of woman centred care; provision of optimum level of care to the newborn; provision of uncomplicated lactation support consistent with working towards the (WHO) Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) and escalating concerns to the midwifery team where appropriate. 

People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background encouraged to apply.

Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:

1. Consistently demonstrates behaviours that reinforce the CORE Values of our organisation; Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment. Demonstrates these behaviours with all stakeholders; colleagues, direct reports, as well as our patients and consumers, and those that care for them.
2. Please indicate if you are currently studying a Bachelor of Midwifery and have completed 12 months or more of an undergraduate Midwifery degree.
3. Please indicate where you have completed acute clinical placements as a part of your undergraduate midwifery degree.
4. Please demonstrate how you communicate effectively with both written and verbal communication skills and incorporating your effective interpersonal skills.
5. Please indicate your facility preference.

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For role related queries or questions contact Samantha McCarthy on ***************@health.nsw.gov.au

This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases including COVID-19. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy (Page 11). You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.

NSW Health is committed to implementing the .

Applications Close: 26 May 2024

Once application completed candidates may be contacted prior to closing date