Midwifery Manager

🔍 Hornsby, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital | Sydney

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Midwife Manager
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REQ666889 Requisition #
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3 hours ago Post Date

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Midwifery Manager to lead and coordinate maternity services, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, woman-centred care. This leadership role is responsible for the operational and clinical management of midwifery services, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. If you are a highly motivated and experienced midwifery professional with strong leadership capability and a passion for improving maternity services, then we encourage you to apply.

Employment Type: Temporary Full Time until 24 January 2027
Position Classification: Midwife Manager Grade 3
Remuneration: $2,944.30 - 2,998.90 per week
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ666889
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 every day. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There is a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You will 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  
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, Maternity Services.

What you’ll be doing : Provide strategic and operational leadership across midwifery services, Ensure delivery of safe, evidence-based maternity care aligned with best practice standards, Lead, mentor, and support a team of midwives and maternity staff, Oversee workforce planning, rostering, and performance management, Drive quality improvement initiatives and support accreditation requirements, Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance service delivery, Manage clinical governance, risk, and patient safety processes, Monitor service performance, reporting on key indicators and outcomes.
 

People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply.

Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:

  1. Current AHPRA registration as a Registered Midwife with relevant post graduate qualifications in clinical leadership or management; or willingness to undertake same.
  2. Demonstrated high level of written and verbal communication skills and ability to liaise and negotiate with clinicians, managers, staff and other key stakeholders and manage conflict.
  3. Demonstrated high level leadership skills and ability to motivate, inspire and manage staff to achieve service and organisational goals utilising recognised change management principles.
  4. Demonstrated focus on service excellence evidenced by the ability to read and act on issues quickly, decisively and effectively, experience in managing a complex service with competing demands for access, throughput and resources.
  5. Demonstrated ability to manage change and guide others through change processes, with the ability to identify and apply effective strategies to deliver service outcomes and KPI's within tightly defined resources.
  6. Demonstrated understanding of financial management in health care and the ability to identify and monitoring financial efficiency strategies. High level computer skills for health related programs including a range of workforce and performance/analytics systems.
  7. Demonstrated ability to guide others to analyse workplace issues and develop solutions to enhance systems and work processes.



 

Need more information? 
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For role related queries or questions contact Maria Manna on Maria.Manna@health.nsw.gov.au

This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy (Page 11). You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have. 

 

NSW Health is committed to implementing the Child Safe Standards.

 

The team enriching health in millions of ways every day.

 

Applications Close: 17 June 2026

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