Registered Midwife MAPS
Do you want to provide Antenatal Care and Midwifery in the Home, workday shifts and the opportunity to manage your own caseload of women and be able to provide continuity of care? Welcome to the Midwifery Antenatal and Postnatal Service (MAPS) in our Maternity Services. Maternity Antenatal Postnatal Service (MAPS) will be responsible for a caseload of women per year based on your FTE (approximately 7 – 10 women per month over/for 12 months) Working a 7day week roster including weekends. Positions are being offered on a temporary part time basis.
Employment Type: Temporary Part Time until 14 February 2026 (with possibility of ongoing employment)
Position Classification: Registered Midwife
Remuneration: $36.39 - $51.09 per hour
Hours Per Week: 24
Requisition ID: REQ534516
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
The Registered Midwife working on the MAPS Model of Care will aim to provide antenatal care from the booking in visit followed by the routine schedule ANC visits to Midwifery in the Home (MITH) and point of contact up until day 14 postnatally (as per hospital usual care guidelines). All intrapartum care and inpatient care are provided by Birth Unit and Maternity Unit Staff. The Registered Midwife will manage a caseload of women and be supported by the MAPS team education and broader multidisciplinary teams. Registered Midwives will be supported in developing skills and competences required to work within the Model of 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 are encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:
- Current AHPRA registration as a Registered Midwife
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a high level of written and verbal skills with both patients and colleagues.
- Recent experience and competency to practise as a midwife in antenatal, labour, birth and postnatal care, lactation and infant feeding.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively both independently and in a team environment.
- Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development.
- Current unrestricted NSW Drivers licence.
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For role related queries or questions contact Anna Winter on Anna.Winter@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.
Applications Close: 3 February 2025
