Community Midwife

• Community Midwife Outreach/Caseload Service
• Otepoti Dunedin Maternity
• Permanent, full-time role (1.0 FTE)
• Salary band $83,000 - $115,000 per annum and KiwiSaver
• Excellent opportunity to coordinate our outreach services

Lead and collaborate with the wider Senior Leadership team to support and coordinate antenatal and postnatal midwifery services, providing care to persons accessing the antenatal/telehealth/outreach clinics alongside postnatal care and any other service within the scope of practice and the scope of the services where they operate (i.e., immunisation, LARC, Anti-D and Ferrinject clinics, VBAC Clinics, SGA clinics etc) when needed.

About the role:

• Support the provision of midwifery services which meet the needs of whanau, monitoring whanau needs, clinical outcomes, whanau satisfaction and clinical standards, including a midwifery service of last resort when pregnant people are unable to secure an LMC
• Work collaboratively with the Obstetric team and LMC's, including coordinating services as directed such as ultrasound scans, MFM, liaison with paediatrics, anesthetics
• Coordinate resources to meet identified needs, encompassing staff and equipment
• Monitor communication and documentation standards
• Notify managers of any areas of concern e.g. practice issues, service gaps
• Provide clinical and professional leadership
• Demonstrate an understanding of consumables within the service, and assists in identifying variances
• Manage quality and risk programmes
• Contributes to the development and implementation of policies and procedures

About you:

• It is essential that you are a NZ Registered Midwife and hold a current APC
• Hold or be working towards a relevant post-graduate qualification
• Demonstrate sound professional judgement
• Have relevant knowledge of patient safety and resource management
• Demonstrate clinical quality, safety and best practice.
• Confidence to build successful working relationships with those around you, the ability to work independently or within a multidisciplinary team environment
• Confidence with te ao Māori, tikanga, and te reo Māori or a commitment to starting your journey

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Benefits:

• Continuous support for career development
• Subsidised gym membership and discounted health insurance
• Access to discounted staff holiday accommodation and a range of retail discounts

About us

Here at Otepoti Dunedin Hospital, we birth 1,800 births a year as part of a full range of primary, secondary and tertiary maternity services. We offer inpatient and outpatient antenatal, delivery and postnatal services and a Lactation Consultancy Service. Our brand of care and compassion involves a very special blend of strength, compassion and cool headedness from our midwives who welcome our babies into the world.

Find out more about midwifery at Health New Zealand Midwifery - Southern Health - He hauora, he kuru pounamu!

Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora - Southern has the largest geographical coverage of all the New Zealand regions, providing services to 350,000 people in diverse communities. We take pride in all the services we provide, and our aim is to improve, promote and protect the health of our region. We believe that our dedicated and passionate staff are a significant driving force behind the achievement of these standards, and we need more like-minded people to help us continue providing for our community.

Now is a great time to relocate to family-friendly Southern if you are considering a move! The Southern district offers excellent amenities, first class early childhood through to tertiary education and the opportunity to have an outstanding work-life balance. Check out https://careers.southernhealth.nz/ for what the region and we can offer you and your whanau.

Salary range

This role falls under the terms and conditions of the MERAS Midwives Collective Agreement (1 February 2024 - 30 April 2025) and falls between Step 2 ($83,667 p.a pro-rata) and Step 8 ($115,715 p.a pro-rata) of the Community Midwives Salary Scale.