AddressGraduate Midwife
Full Time/Part Time positions available
64-80 hours per fortnight
Fixed Term 12 Months duration
About the role
Our Maternity Service supports around 200 women each year. The service is a Level 3 Maternity and Level 2 Newborn, as per the Department of Health Capability Frameworks for Maternity and Newborn Services and provides local care for healthy women and babies at low risk.
The role of the midwife is to work within the multidisciplinary team providing woman centred midwifery care across the birthing continuum.
An undergraduate or post graduate qualification in midwifery is essential, along with the ability to work as part of a team and independently. Relevant midwifery experience or recent midwifery qualification is desirable.
The successful candidate will provide antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal care in a modified case load model of midwifery care to women and their families.
The Registered Midwife will have midwifery skills, knowledge, and attitudes in accordance with the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Competency Standards.
You will bring:
- Bachelor of Nursing and Grad Diploma in Midwifery or Direct Entry Bachelor of Midwifery
- Registration as a midwife with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
- Ability to work collaboratively and cohesively with colleagues, supervisors and other stakeholders
- Current Driver's Licence
*** Proposed Interview Date: Interviews to take place upon receipt of suitable applications
Depending on the position the successful applicant will hold, or be able to obtain, a Police Criminal Check, employee Victorian Working with Children Check and be willing to undertake a Disability Worker Exclusion Scheme check. Current immunisation records/evidence is required, including COVID.
Western District Health Service is an Equal Opportunity Employer that has a commitment to cultural safety, inclusion and empowerment of Indigenous, Torres Strait Islander, their families and communities and encourages them to apply. This organisation promotes the safety and wellbeing of children from culturally, linguistically diverse and aboriginal backgrounds and those with a disability.
