Address- Full time - Midwife Manager, Pakenham clinics
- Showcase your clinical excellence and leadership skills
- A strong communicator will thrive in this critical role
Showcase your passion and leadership in work that really makes a difference.
Monash Women’s Program has an opportunity for an ongoing pivotal leadership position. Work alongside our Maternity Leadership team in this great opportunity to further progress your maternity career within a supportive and collaborative Maternity Service.
About the Role
The Midwife Manager – Ruby Team Leader is jointly responsible for the management of the Pregnancy Care Clinics (PCC). Ruby Team Leader is primarily responsible for the operational running of the PCC and the team that supports their lead. It is a position that requires both clinical and management hours, equating to 50% of each over full time hours. We present an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to primarily focus on helping us cultivate and develop our service for Casey which is located at our Pakenham Community Centre, to give the highest standard of care to the women and their families in our rapidly growing community.
This is an Ongoing Full time opportunity Monday to Friday.
Our Journey
Casey Hospital provides maternity care for 2500 women per annum with plans to increase into the future. The maternity service at Casey has three maternity teams, booking women from low to increasingly higher levels of complexity. Expanding services to Casey Hospital has led to our ability to care for women with varying levels of complexity, as we now have critical care services on site to support their journey. Casey Hospital services the Casey and Cardinia catchment areas, the most rapidly growing areas in the state. With over 2500 births annually, our birth numbers continue to grow in line with the population growth in this area. Casey Hospital pregnancy clinic facilities are run in a state of the art community clinic at Pakenham.
What You Bring
You are an experienced midwife, passionate about midwifery, with a demonstrated commitment to empowering childbearing women and their families within a service that embraces consistency of advice and continuity of philosophy. You consistently role-model midwifery excellence and are a proven leader of people, motivating your team to work effectively together in a clinical setting. You will be inspired everyday working with like-minded, passionate colleagues who share your values and purpose. To be selected for interview you will need to demonstrate:
- Postgraduate midwifery experience, including an Associate Manager or equivalent leadership role
- Demonstrated experience and recency of practice in both leadership and clinical excellence within Pregnancy Care clinics is essential due to the nature of the role.
- Skills in leading the planning, implementation, evaluation and maintenance of midwifery care at a consistently high standard
- A commitment to supporting midwives the opportunity to gain and maintain full scope of practice
- Proven ability to work collaboratively with a highly skilled multidisciplinary team to achieve goals and health outcomes
- Sound communication skills, enabling the development and maintenance of effective working relationships with health professionals, support staff and other stakeholders, both internal and external to Monash Health
- Excellent organisational skills, time management, analytical and problem solving skills
- A commitment to safe practice, utilising a sound knowledge of relevant legislation, guidelines and standards
In Return:
- Be part of our leading and growing organisation
- Mentorship and career guidance and opportunities to progress your career
- Access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your clinical skills and knowledge base
- Further develop your leadership and project management skills.
Monash Health is a great place to work!
In 2022 Monash Health was nominated by LinkedIn as one of the top 25 organisations in Australia to grow your career. Our employees enjoy a range of benefits including:
- salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay
- a comprehensive Health and Wellbeing program
- free vaccinations
- private health insurance at discounted rates
- health imaging services
- + more
Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service and proudly provides healthcare to one quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire lifespan from newborn and children, to adults, the elderly, their families and carers. More than 22,000 of us work at over 40 care locations across south-eastern Melbourne.
We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values. For further information around Monash Health and the Women’s Program, please access the following Websites www.monashwomens.org
How to Apply
We’re only able to accept applications submitted via the Monash Health online Mercury System.
For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Jacquie Mejia on 0417012***
Please note, applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date.
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