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The St George Hospital Maternity Unit offers comprehensive maternity services with varied models of midwifery care for the residents of the St George area.
St George Hospital provide a variety of innovative midwifery models of care. These include Midwifery Group Practice (MGP), Culturally Specific Centering, Midwifery Antenatal and Postnatal Service (MAPS), and Active Birth Team. There are also complex high risk medical models of care.
St George Hospital is located in Southern Sydney and is a Level 5+ maternity unit that provides maternity care to a culturally diverse population. St George also provides care for women whose pregnancy is either low to high risk. St George will birth approximately 2500 babies per year.
St George Hospital is close to both rail and bus services. Kogarah is the closest railway station and is only a five minute walk from the hospital campus. There is adequate street parking within a 15 minute walk or available in an onsite public carparks.

Take a virtual tour of our maternity service by following the link below:
https://www.seslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/st-george-hospital/services-clinics/directory/womens-and-childrens-health/maternity-virtual-tour
Employment Type: Permanent Full-Time/Part-Time
Position Classification: Registered Midwife
Remuneration: $65692.82 - $92236.06 per hour plus superannuation
Hours Per Week: Up to 38


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Where you'll be working
St George Hospital

What you'll be doing

The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional people, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.

All staff are expected to act as an appropriate and effective role model and promote culture and supporting practices that reflect the NSW Health CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment through demonstrated behaviours and interactions with patients, clients and employees. All staff are expected to take reasonable care that their actions do not adversely affect the health and safety of others, that they comply with any reasonable instruction that is given them and with any reasonable policies/procedures relating to health or safety in the workplace, as well as notifying any hazards/risks or incidents to their managers.

The vision for nursing and midwifery at St George Hospital is to provide meaning and purpose to plan for the future; have reference to an inspirational statement that is consistent with the purpose and values of nursing and midwifery; and to inspire nurses and midwives to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients in any circumstance. The Vision Statement is: 'Nurses and midwives at St George Hospital are always compassionate and competent in the delivery of excellent patient and family centered care.' Eight core behaviours were identified as being integral to achieving the vision: team player;caring;respectful;honest;advocate;collaborative;considerate and accountable.

The Registered Midwife coordinates and delivers high quality midwifery care to patients/clients of the St George Hospital and Health service consistent with SESLHD and St George Hospital policies, procedures and standards.
Qualifications - External
Selection Criteria:

1)Current registration as a Registered Midwife with the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia.

2)Demonstrated high level written and verbal communication, interpersonal skills and the ability to identify key messages, issues and concerns when communicating with others.

3)Demonstrated ability to proactively engage with patients/clients to enhance service delivery and to guide others in providing service excellence.

4)Demonstrated ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and apply professional and ethical boundaries when dealing with complex situations.

5)Basic computer skills and proven ability to use health information systems.

6)Detailed knowledge and understanding of risk management, safety and quality principles and the role of the Registered Midwife in applying these principles.

7)Demonstrated recent post registration midwifery experience.

For more information click on the link for the Job/Position Description

For role related queries or questions contact Kim Bonnici on [email protected]
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30/06/2023

Kim Bonnici

[email protected]

02 9113 2124

Full Time
St George Hospital, Kogarah
,ACT,National,NSW,NT,Online/Remote,Overseas,QLD,SA,TAS,VIC,WA
$65,692 to $92,236 pa
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