Project Lead & Amum (Mgp)

Project Lead & Associate Midwife Unit Manager - Maternity Group Practice (MGP)

Are you a Registered Midwife with extensive clinical knowledge, practical skills, and experience in championing change, demonstrating leadership abilities, and managing projects? Do you have an overarching passion and commitment for improving clinical and maternity care? Come and join Latrobe Regional Health's Women's and Children's Unit!

Latrobe Regional Health is embarking on the expansion of options for low-risk pregnant clients and their families through the introduction of a midwifery continuity of care model - MGP. This model involves providing care across the continuum of pregnancy, labour, and the post-natal period, delivered by a known midwife, with consultation and collaboration of other clinicians as appropriate.

In this role, you will play a pivotal part in designing, implementing, and coordinating the day-to-day requirements of the project plan. Your focus will be on ensuring a seamless transition to operationalise the model, optimising patient outcomes, and enhancing satisfaction for low-risk clients. As the model becomes operational, your responsibilities will extend to the assessment, management, support, ongoing evaluation, and reporting of clinical outcomes and relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Additionally, you will be expected to take on a caseload, titrated depending on your Full-Time Equivalent (FTE), and be available for a component of "on-call" duties in your roster.

If you possess prior experience with MGP, along with expertise in project management and the enthusiasm to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate a new model of care, then this role could be your next professional move.

Joining our team at LRH Women’s and Children’s Services presents an exciting opportunity, especially as we are on the brink of moving into our brand-new state-of-the-art ward area. This expansion includes new birthing suites, a maternity assessment unit, and postnatal, neonatal, and paediatric wards in the 3A hospital expansion, set for completion at the end of 2023. As a Level 5 Maternity Service and Level 4 Special Care Nursery, our Thomson unit also serves as a referral service for smaller Gippsland Regional maternity services.

If you are ready for a challenging and rewarding role in advancing maternity care, we invite you to be part of this exciting journey.

For more information about this exciting opportunity, we encourage you to contact Cathryn Heywood on (03) 5173 8*** for a confidential discussion.

LRH employees enjoy access to:

• Free access to our Staff Wellbeing Centre offering a range of health education and wellbeing services
• Access to ongoing development through daily education sessions, bespoke training and career & study support
• Tailored flexible work options to support work life balance, including ADO’s, 5 weeks leave, regional salary packaging and additional purchased leave
• Fantastic social club activities and diverse and inclusive workplace activities
• Workplace Wellbeing programs and activities uniquely designed for LRH staff

Why Relocate to Gippsland, Victoria? 

Just two hours drive from the city of Melbourne, the region of Gippsland features urban centres, rural lifestyles, snow-capped mountains, forests and a magnificent coastline. You could be surfing the breaks off the 90-mile beach, skiing the slopes of Mount Hotham or hiking through ancient native forests. All this in an area the size of the Netherlands.

So that’s your new lifestyle taken care of. Now, what about a career caring for a population of 300,000 at Gippsland’s largest provider of specialist health services? Latrobe Regional Health (you can call us LRH) prides itself on providing a safe, supportive environment for you to learn, develop and flourish.

About LRH

LRH was proud to be the recipient of the 2022 Premier’s Health Service of the Year (Medium) Award.  This prestigious award recognises the amazing work of our team in driving change and improvement in the health outcomes for the Victorian community.

We are located 150 km east of Melbourne, and LRH is the regional provider of a broad range of specialist health services including hospital based, sub-acute and mental health services across Gippsland.

Now is an exciting time to join the LRH team, with $217 million expansion nearing completion, offering improved maternity and paediatric facilities, larger intensive care unit, increase medical and surgical beds and additional operating theatres.

Explore all the great things happening at LRH – www.lrh.com.au and take the next step on your career journey by submitting your application for this and other roles here - https://lrh.mercury.com.au

Diversity and Inclusion

We actively embrace workforce diversity, equity and inclusion, and encourage applications from across our community, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.  LRH’s Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Officer is available to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent applicants and can be contacted on (03) 5173 8***.

IMPORTANT:  All staff employed in the healthcare sector are required to be vaccinated for 3 COVID-19 doses and current season influenza vaccination, unless a valid medical exemption applies.