AddressJob title: Casual Community Midwife
Company: Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation
Location: Broken Hill, New South Wales
Salary: $71.77 – $81.32 gross per hour plus superannuation, depending on qualifications
Dates: Monday 1 July 2024 – Friday 27 September 2024. (Minimum 6 week block)
Incentives for this position
- Travel including flights arranged and provided by us.
- Accommodation provided. Fully furnished accommodation with WIFI and amenities included.
- Competitive rates of pay. $71.77 – $81.32 including casual loading and short-term placement allowance plus superannuation.
- Work directly with the health service to co-ordinate your contract.
- Work with a friendly and supportive team
- Monday to Friday 8.30 -5.00 only, no shift, on call or weekend work.
- Plenty of time to explore and enjoy or beautiful region.
- Weekly outreach travel, one day per week.
Summary
Work in partnership with GP’s and Aboriginal Health Practitioners to implement the NSW Aboriginal Maternal Infant Health Strategy integrated within the Child and Family Health Service.
About Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation
Maari Ma Health is an Aboriginal community-controlled regional health service that has been providing a quality service to the Aboriginal people of far western New South Wales for more than 20 years and employs over 140 people within the region.
About the role
Our supportive team is on the look-out for an experienced Community Midwife to join us to provide a quality health service to the Aboriginal people of far western New South Wales. Reporting to the Manager Healthy Start, this full-time opportunity includes key responsibilities such as:
- Coordinating and assist in a wide variety of midwifery treatments and care activities using a patient-centered approach in a general practice clinic.
- Work as part of the Child and Family Program within the Maari Ma footprint, to provide safe and effective Community Midwifery services and ensure the continuity of care for mothers and children through pregnancy, infancy and ongoing into childhood.
- Mentor and support Aboriginal Health Practitioners and trainees with ante natal and post natal care, encouraging their active participation at all times.
- Competently perform clinical midwifery duties identified as being required in the preparation, execution and monitoring of maternity care plans according to best available evidence. E.g., antenatal and post-natal assessments, baby checks, immunisations and other injections, collection of pathology samples.
- Implement the AMIHS Program Activities working in collaboration with maternity, medical, obstetric and paediatric staff to provide a range of community based services for Aboriginal women and their babies. These services include the provision of:
- a culturally appropriate continuity of care model through the antenatal and postnatal periods up to 6-8 weeks;
- identification of complicated pregnancies and appropriate referral to specialists;
- outreach and home visiting service;
- Develop and maintain a positive collaborative working relationship with Broken Hill Health Service midwifery team, to facilitate best practice holistic, culturally appropriate care is provided throughout pregnancy and postnatal period.
- Emotional and social support for women, especially those with high needs.
Skills and experience
- Currently registered with, or eligible to be registered with Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency (AHPRA) as a Registered Midwife.
- Minimum of three years’ midwifery experience, preferably in a community-based role.
- Ability to work effectively in a community based setting with women, parents, carers, families and other service providers, and ability to respond effectively to clients who may be challenging to engage.
- Currently possess authorisation as an immunisation provider in New South Wales.
- Ability to work with Aboriginal staff and communities in a way that fosters mutual respect.
- Proven ability to communicate in a clear, considerate manner with genuine compassion.
- Proven experience using clinical IT systems and computing skills relevant to the position and competent in the use of information and communication technology including Microsoft Word, email and internet applications and the ability to quickly acquire skills in other applications.
- Proven ability to communicate in a clear, considerate manner with genuine compassion.
The Location:
We are proud to work on Paakintji country. The Oasis of the Outback, Broken Hill is a living, breathing time capsule where the local Aboriginal Culture blends seamlessly with a rising modern art scene, all set amid a sprawling desert landscape. It is a place of huge skies, rocky red earth, and a fascinating and internationally significant history. This historic town is great for all ages and has several day-cares, primary schools, high schools, and TAFE. Beyond Broken Hill and on your doorstep, you can discover spectacular and culturally significant national parks, lush rivers and lakes, abundant wildlife, and other classic towns of outback New South Wales and beyond. Broken Hill has an airport servicing both Qantas and Rex with two-three flights a day from Sydney and Adelaide and is only a 5-hour drive from Adelaide.
How to apply:
If you would like to learn more, please reach out to Claire Allan on 0447 807 *** for a confidential chat or email ************@maarima.com.au
Please view our website and see the Strategic Plan, Chronic Disease Strategy and Annual Report at www.maarima.com.au
All Maari Ma Aboriginal Health employees are required to have two doses of a COVID-19 vaccination or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are encouraged to apply for this position.
Maari Ma acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land in which we live, and we pay our respect to their Elders both past and present and emerging.
