Registered Midwife Northern Beaches Hospital

Northern Beaches Hospital are looking for Registered Midwives keen to join and support our patients and their families.

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Registered Midwife
Remuneration: $1566.70 - $2199.60 per week
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ683063

Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives. 

NSLHD is proud of our diverse and inclusive workplaces, a place where health care professionals can thrive and feel they belong. We are committed to ensure that all our people feel respected and participate safely within a work environment without aggression, sexual harassment, discrimination, and racism.

Where you'll be working

 

Northern Beaches Hospital provides world-class, Level 5 delineation services for both public and private patients. Our amazing birthing and maternity facilities, include spacious birthing rooms with large birth pools, latest K2 monitoring systems, and Level 4 SCN providing options for all levels of maternity care. As a midwife at Northern Beaches Hospital you will have opportunities to use your skills across the full scope of maternity care, with women having choices from continuity of care models. The hospital also features an Emergency Department, ICU, state-of-the-art theatres, world-class education centre with SIM lab, and excellent staff facilities including café and on site car parking. We are proud to be home to some of Australia’s leading clinical specialists and a training ground for the clinicians of the future. As a Midwife you will gain a unique experience in a hospital which offers future growth and career opportunities. Our culture is diverse, friendly and open to ideas.

What you'll be doing
We are seeking part time and/or full time permanent midwives with a passion for providing current evidence based care in collaboration with women and the wider health care team. Our midwives enjoy working across the service in all areas of midwifery with a work life balance that 12 hour shifts provide. There is opportunity to have input into the future development of evidence-based models of care for women and families. As a postnatal midwife there will be support for gaining additional skills in areas such as lactation, women's health and psychosocial wellbeing.

As a Midwife at NBH you will make an impact by:
Providing high standards of evidence-based midwifery care to women of varying ages and cultural groups
Planning, assessing, implementing and evaluating midwifery care in collaboration with women, their families and the multidisciplinary team to achieve identified goals and health outcomes
Guiding and mentor junior and undergraduate midwives in provision of midwifery care
Working collaboratively with the wider healthcare team to support patient care needs
Being passionate about delivering an exceptional patient experience for women and their families.

People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background encouraged to apply. 
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria: