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SalaryEmployment Type: Permanent Part Time, 32 hours per week
Location: Bankstown Hospital
Position Classification: Clinical Midwifery Educator
Remuneration: $53.70 - $55.45 per hour
Requisition ID: REQ470487
Application Close Date: 10/03/2024
Interview Date Range: 13/03/2024 – 20/03/2024
Contact Details: Ghada Elzein – (02) 9722 8377 |
About the Opportunity
Bankstown Hospital is actively seeking a Clinical Midwifery Educator with extensive experience in Antenatal/MGP/Parent Education to strengthen the current team.
The ideal candidate will provide pivotal clinical leadership by providing preceptorship and mentorship initiatives and fostering a collaborative atmosphere conducive to learning and development within the unit.
Effective communication skills, grounded in adult learning principles, will be essential for facilitating individual capability development, ensuring the delivery of safe, compassionate, and high-quality care. The chosen candidate will embrace responsibility and accountability for their clinical practice, engaging in critical reflection, ongoing professional development, and performance evaluation, while actively contributing to the support, teaching, coaching, and growth of fellow healthcare professionals.
In close collaboration with management, fellow educators, and clinical midwife consultants, the appointed Clinical Midwifery Educator will play a pivotal role in devising, delivering, and evaluating tailored clinical teaching and educational programs as well as to design and implement clinical education initiatives aimed at fostering best practices, enhancing patient service delivery, and ultimately improving patient outcomes.
By leveraging their expertise and experience, the Clinical Midwifery Educator will contribute significantly to the professional growth and excellence of the maternity care team at Bankstown Hospital.
Where You'll Be Working
Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is located in the city of Bankstown and is in one of the most multicultural local government areas (LGA) in Australia. This hospital has tertiary affiliations with three universities and offers a range of roles and experiences to employees.
The hospital receives highly diverse presentations in ED as well as having general medical and surgical services and sub-specialty services across the hospital. Working at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is a truly rewarding experience which allows you to make a real difference to the multicultural community.
Being part of the team at Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital means you will be a part of a friendly and enthusiastic group of people where you will be truly valued in your work. Being a smaller hospital, you are seen as part of the wider Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital Family where you are known to the other staff and your patients.
Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is like no other in our district and offers unmatched career development and progression opportunities and the hospital focuses on regular training and upskilling. There are regular occasions for working in more senior role and you will have a great management team who dedicate themselves to providing safe, quality patient care through ensuring they have a cohesive and dynamic team.
How to Apply
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the selection criteria as thoroughly as possible. * Current Authority to Practice as a Midwife with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA). Relevant clinical or education post registration qualifications or such education and clinical experience deemed appropriate. Successfully completed or working towards a tertiary qualification in clinical education and/or clinical training or a current technical qualification in workplace training and assessment.
- Demonstrated understanding of competency-based assessment with experience in education / clinical teaching and developing clinical programs based on adult learning principles.
- Demonstrated ability to provide safe compassionate quality care that is culturally responsive
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and engage with patients/consumers, carers and the multidisciplinary health care team.
- Demonstrated capacity to interact with others in a personable and professional manner and personally resolve conflicts when they arise
- Demonstrated evidence of the use of critical thinking as it relates to the delivery of evidenced based nursing care
- Demonstrated understanding and participation in risk management, work health and safety and quality improvement in the workplace
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