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SalaryClassification:Registered Midwife Level 2
Salary: $100,957 - $107,000 plus superannuation
Position No: 24653, Several - 02FY0
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 23 February 2024
Contact Officer: Rebekah Howard on ***************@act.gov.au or (02) 5124 6***
What can we offer you:
- City living without the traffic – click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
- Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
- Flexible working conditions.
- 11.5% Superannuation.
- Scholarships for education support
- Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates subject to the hiring managers approval
About the Role:
Are you an experienced Registered Midwife looking for your next challenge? We have several roles available, and we can find the best one for you!
Canberra Hospital is a level 6 tertiary centre providing specialised maternity care to approximately 3800 women per year. We have positions within the following services available:
Continuity of Care & Homebirth (Caseload Midwife):
Our Midwifery Continuity of Care service provides maternity care to low risk women planning to birth in the Birth Centre environment and continuity of midwifery care to ‘all risk’ women with a plan to birth in our Birthing Suite. The program also offers publicly funded homebirth to women meeting eligibility requirements.
The Midwifery Continuity of Care service is family cantered, as we understand that the family is central to the successful delivery of health care. We believe in respect for mother, baby and their family and their cultural and religious needs.
This is an on-call position and when on call you will need to be available within 30 minutes of the Centenary Hospital for Women and Children.
For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.
Pregnancy Enhancement program Midwife Level 2:
Pregnancy Enhancement program (PEP) includes admissions through Emergency Department with early pregnancy concerns or persistent pelvic pain. You will play a key role in enabling appropriate access to maternity services, as well as be responsible for coordinating safe and effective care to high-risk antenatal women; postnatal women and babies in the immediate postnatal period; Women with drug and alcohol concerns, and high-risk mental health.
This current role involves working Monday to Friday 8:30 to 5:00pm excluding weekends and public holidays.
For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.
Midcall Midwife Level 2:
In this position you will be responsible for coordinating safe and effective delivery of care to women and babies during pregnancy and in the immediate postnatal period. The role incorporates direct client care in the Antenatal and Postnatal period for women and their babies. Within a multidisciplinary approach you will be supported to ensure clinical care is of the highest quality, consistent with current evidence and practice initiatives in the relevant area of speciality.
This current role involves morning (Day) shifts, working Monday to Sunday including public holidays.
For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.
General Registered Midwife Level 2:
We are looking for Registered Midwife’s to work across their full scope of practice in the following areas:
- Antenatal
- Postnatal
- Birthing
- Continuity (CBR Midwives Program)
- Maternity and Gynaecology Outpatients
For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
For more information on this position and how to apply “click here”
Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.
Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind
CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.
Canberra Hospital Expansion Project – CHS is constructing a new critical services building called ‘Building 5’ which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territory’s history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution.
North Canberra Hospital - As of 3 July 2023 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities.
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