Cairns Hospital Maternity Service includes a Midwifery Group Practice (MGP) model as an option for care. MGP offers pregnant women individualised, woman-centred care with a named and known midwife who works with one or more midwives to provide care from early pregnancy, throughout labour and birth and up to four weeks after birth. The MGP midwives work collaboratively with the Obstetric team, unit Midwifery team, and other health professionals. This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community. We have a current vacancy as Registered Midwife (Caseload Midwives).

Job details

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The Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service covers a large geographic area with a diverse and growing population. The Health Service provides a wide range of primary care, acute and specialist services.

Our staff are a part of the community we serve, and we strongly believe that health outcomes are enhanced by involving our community in the planning and evaluation of local health services.

About us:

Our values were developed by our staff, patients and community. They guide our work and actions every day. Our staff are part of the community we serve. We believe that we can improve health outcomes by involving our community in the planning and evaluation of their local health services.

About you:

In your new role you will…

• Demonstrate ability to provide woman-centred care across the entire continuum of pregnancy.
• Demonstrate ability to comprehensively assess, plan, implement and evaluate the provision of care.
• Demonstrate ability to critically think in relation to planning and responding to potentially rapidly changing clinical situations.

About your opportunity:

In this position you will will work in partnership with women, their families and other Caseload midwives as part of a Midwifery Group Practice. Each midwife will be allocated a low-moderate risk caseload of 36 - 40 women per year (pro-rata) to provide evidence-based care across the continuum of pregnancy, labour, birth and the postnatal period.

About your role:

• Provide effective and efficient clinical care in the area of Midwifery and work in collaboration with the Midwife Unit Manager to ensure the maintenance of safe standards in patient care.
• Effectively manage self and work with the Midwife Unit Manager/Clinical Midwife Educator to meet unit midwifery staff development and education needs.
• Accurately conducts comprehensive and systematic assessments, analysing information and data and takes action based on this information, communicating outcomes as the basis for practice.

Mandatory inclusion:

As a Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service employee, not only will you receive competitive remuneration, you will also have access to:

• Generous superannuation
• Salary packaging
• Annual incremental increases
• Career training and development
• Flexible work arrangements
• Wellness programs

Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Why choose Cairns?

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You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Cairns and Hinterland here: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cairns_hinterland

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are to apply online. If the information requested in the ‘how to apply’ section is not provided, you may not meet the requirements for further consideration of your application.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• CAH561076 Role Description (PDF, 417KB)
  Role Description
  
  CHHHS Information for Applicants v.20 (PDF, 939KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  Documentation preparation guide (PDF, 251KB)
  Information Package for Applicants