Registered Midwife (RM) Casual Pool NSLHD
An exciting opportunity exists to join the Women’s Children and Family Health LHD Casual Pool and become a valued member of the Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD) casual pool. NSLHD has a person-centred care approach within a practice development framework and offers flexibility of shifts.
Employment Type: Casual
Position Classification: Registered Midwife
Remuneration: $35.33 - $49.60 per hour
Requisition ID: REQ472024
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.
Where you'll be working
- Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) and Community Health Service is a 634 bed principal tertiary referral centre. It is close to the CBD and transport facilities, accommodation, recreational and childcare facilities are available. Specialities include: Surgery, Medicine, Women’s & Children’s Health, Critical Care Services - ED State Trauma Centre, Operating Theatres, ICU General, Neurology/Neuroscience and Cardiology. State referral for Burns/Plastics, Neonatal Intensive Care, Interventional Neuroradiology and Acute Spinal Cord Injuries. RNSH has a commitment to person centred care, supporting our staff in developing their skills with Clinical Nurse Educators available in all units.
- RNSH Midwifery – low to high-risk maternity services, opportunity to work in outpatients, inpatient, birth unit and midwifery support program.
- The Hornsby and Ku-ring-gai Health Service (HKHS) incorporates a 295 bed, major metropolitan hospital providing a comprehensive range of secondary level services, outpatient services, six community health centres and ten early childhood centres. There are a large range of departments and services in both acute care and community settings. These include acute Medical & Surgical wards, large operating suite department, Medical Assessment Unit (MAU), Rehabilitation, Maternity and Paediatric wards, Emergency & Intensive care Departments.
- Maternity – HKHS maternity Service is level 4 health facility providing antenatal, birthing and postnatal care. We offer a 14 bedded maternity unit with a special care nursery on site as well. We incorporate programs such as Towards Normal Birth and a Midwifery Group Practice Team. We offer specialised educational support to all staff as well.
What you'll be doing
Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care in collaboration with individual/s and the greater health care team to achieve quality patient care outcome.
The NSLHD Nursing and Midwifery Workforce will be compassionate, competent, confident, contemporary, capable and committed to leading person-centred health care.
To provide quality woman centred, effective, evidenced based midwifery care in accordance with the ANMC National Competency Standards for the Midwife (2006) and to supervise the work of others as required.
The midwife will consult and liaise with obstetric, medical and other appropriate staff as per the ACM National Midwifery Guidelines for Consultation and referral (PD2010_022) guidelines when deviations from the norm are identified.
People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:
- Are you a Registered Midwife with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra)? Please provide your current Ahpra registration number as a Registered Midwife.
- Summarise your current Midwifery clinical experience including competency to practice as a midwife across the areas of antenatal care, labour, birth, postnatal care, lactation and infant feeding. Please demonstrate your ability to problem solve within the clinical Midwifery environment.
- How do you consistently demonstrate behaviours that reinforce the CORE values of our organisation - Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment? How do you demonstrate these behaviours with all stakeholders, colleagues, direct reports, as well as our patients and consumers, and those that care for them?
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For role related queries or questions contact Samantha McCarthy on NSLHD-NMDCasualPoolAgency@health.nsw.gov.au
This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases including COVID-19. 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.
Applications Close: 26 May 2024
Once application completed candidates may be contacted prior to closing date
