• Attractive salary, 32% loading, super, and salary packaging.
• Enjoy work-life balance with flexible full-time or 0.7 part-time roles, even week on/week off at 0.7 EFT.
• Benefit from our Staff Social Club’s discounts on events, gyms, and more.
• Relocation incentives available.
• Join us in Traralgon, Victoria.

About Latrobe Regional Health

Latrobe Regional Health (LRH) is a leading healthcare provider with state-of-the-art facilities and services. Our Women’s and Children’s Services offer expanded capacity, including birthing suites, a maternity assessment unit, and postnatal, neonatal, and paediatric wards.

About Maternity Group Practice at Latrobe Regional Health

We provide a continuity of care model for local women and their families in Gippsland. As an MGP midwife, you will be strengthening health care outcomes across the full scope of practice for women and their babies.

Why Relocate to Gippsland, Victoria? 

Gippsland offers a lifestyle that blends urban living with the beauty of nature. Just two hours’ drive from Melbourne, you can enjoy surfing the breaks off the 90-mile beach, skiing the slopes of Mount Hotham, or hiking through ancient native forests. All this in an area the size of the Netherlands.

About the Role

In this role, you will collaborate with other health care workers in the multidisciplinary team, supported by a dedicated Obstetric Consultant and Registrar. You will work in line with evidence-based practice and local LRH guidelines and policies. This is a challenging and rewarding role that will allow you to advance maternity care.

Opportunities and Benefits

We offer a range of benefits, including:

• Caseload midwifery loading of 32%
• Post Graduate Allowance of up to 7.5% based on qualification type
• Additional leave provisions and entitlements as per ANMF enterprise agreement 2020-2024

• Flexible Work Arrangements: Includes part-time 0.7 and full-time positions, as well as options for flexible scheduling to accommodate your personal needs and preferences such as working week on week off at a 0.7 EFT
• Free access to our Staff Wellbeing Centre
• Ongoing development through daily education sessions, bespoke training, and career & study support
• Flexible work options to support work-life balance
• Vibrant social club activities and diverse and inclusive workplace activities
• Workplace Wellbeing programs and activities uniquely designed for LRH staff

Requirements

We are looking for candidates who possess:

• Current Registration or eligibility for Registration as Registered Midwife (Division 1) with AHPRA.
• Recent competent clinical experience in all aspects of midwifery care.
• High level written and verbal communication, interpersonal skills, and the use of information technology.
• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and apply professional and ethical boundaries when dealing with complex situations.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of risk management, safety and quality principles.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well as part of a team.
• A women-centred approach to Midwifery Care.
• Commitment to excellence in practice.
• Ability to embrace and contribute to a learning culture.

We also value proficiency in clinical skills or willingness to work towards:

• IV Cannulation
• Newborn examinations
• Perineal suturing
• Foetal scalp electrode placement
• Speculum examination
• Evidence of a current unrestricted class C driver’s licence and ability and willingness to travel for work purposes.

For more information about this exciting opportunity, we encourage you to contact Cathryn Heywood on (03) 5173 8007 or cathryn.heywood@lrh.com.au for a confidential discussion.

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Diversity and Inclusion

We actively embrace workforce diversity, equity and inclusion, and encourage applications from across our community, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.  LRH’s Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Officer is available to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent applicants and can be contacted on (03) 5173 8653.

IMPORTANT:  All staff employed in the healthcare sector are required to be vaccinated for 3 COVID-19 doses and current season influenza vaccination, unless a valid medical exemption applies.