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Form of workRegistered Midwife – Maternity Outpatients
Part Time: Up to 40hrs a fortnight
Fixed term from March 2024 to March 2025
About the role
Maternity Outpatients is located off-site at 1011 Mair St Ballarat and provides antenatal care, domiciliary care and childbirth education classes. You will be encouraged to work in all areas of the care spectrum. Maternity Outpatients operates 7 days a week, and a small component of weekend work is required.
This position is paid in accordance with the Nurses and Midwives (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement 2020 - 2024. The classification is Registered Midwife Grade 2 (YS2-YS8) which ranges from $36.10 - $48.26 per hour.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide antenatal care in high and low risk clinics
- Provide domiciliary care early days postnatal care in the home for mothers and neonates
- Multi-disciplinary team work and care co-ordination
- Engage and communicate with all members of the Maternity Outpatients team and allied health clinicians
Skills and experience
- Recent antenatal care experience recommended
- Domiciliary Care; Care in the home for Mothers and Neonates (training provided)
- Childbirth education (training provided)
- Current APHRA registration (Midwifery)
About Grampians Health
Grampians Health was established 1 November 2021, bringing together Edenhope and District Memorial Hospital, Stawell Regional Health, Wimmera Health Care Group and Ballarat Health Services to deliver safe, sustainable, healthcare tailored to changing workforce and community needs, for the long term.
This partnership follows years of strong collaboration and close partnerships between the four health services. Together, we will deliver better healthcare, enhance services and advance careers, closer to home, now and into the future.
A career with Grampians Health means you are connected and are part of a team providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Our communities are diverse, as is our workforce, with expert clinical staff from across the world choosing to live and work in our beautiful region.
Grampians Health provides acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care, administration and support services. This means your career will be as diverse and rewarding as you strive to be.
Grampians Health Culture & Benefit
At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.
- Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
- Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
- Access to discounted health club membership
- Staff rewards and recognition programs
Ballarat Region
Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the states fastest growing inland city. Dubbed Australia’s most liveable city in 2020, Ballarat is home to first class education, fine dining and boutique shopping. Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Geelong, Bendigo and the Western district, Ballarat is blessed with some of Australia’s most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes.
How to apply
Click APPLY or contact Tonia Mitchell, Nurse Unit Manager on 03 5320 4*** for a confidential discussion.
All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.
All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.
Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people.
Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.
