Clinical Midwife Specialists for the acute maternity service
Permanent full time and part time roles
Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity
We are seeking experienced midwives to provide senior clinical midwifery support for kaimahi at Te Toka Tumai Auckland. This role will also support our commitment to equity by enabling and improving access to care within our service. You will be comfortable and knowledgeable about health equity and our commitment to upholding this within the service and our population. As a midwife specialist, you will understand the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi and how it is woven into midwifery practice.
As a Clinical Midwife Specialist, you will be a highly competent and confident midwife with a commitment to keeping birth normal and be experienced managing women experiencing pregnancy complexities. You will provide triage and prioritisation services for hapu whanau accessing WAU and plan their placement within our service. You will be a specialist midwife in labour and birth care being able to support and grow our midwives in all levels of midwifery care.
The expectation of this role is to enable you to work at the top of the midwifery scope, with full autonomy consulting with other members of the team as and when required.
Our service:
Women's Assessment Unit (WAU)
WAU is a 16 bed unit providing care for whanau accessing acute maternity and gynaecology services at Te Toka Tumai Auckland hospital, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. WAU is similar to a Women's Health emergency department.
Our services include maternity assessments, both antepartum and postpartum up to six weeks, induction of labour, pregnant and non-pregnant acute gynaecological conditions, and a perinatal loss service for women 20 weeks and over who experience a fetal death in utero or require a termination of pregnancy for medical indications or fetal abnormality.
Our team includes Clinical Charge Midwives, Midwives, Gynaecology Nurses, Health Care Assistants and Ward Clerks. The team liaise closely with the multidisciplinary team, including our medical teams, community LMC midwives and private obstetricians with access to our facility.
Day Assessment Unit (DAU)
Our DAU provides planned care for a wide range of pregnancy issues such as:
SGA/FGR pathway
PPROM / PET
ECV
Iron infusion
Blood transfusions
USS reviews.
Labour and Birthing Suite:
LBS is a 14 bed unit with 2 high risk bed spaces. We care for whanau from across the Auckland region and due to our hospital being a regional referral centre we have whanau coming from across the motu and the pacific. We provide maternity care from primary through to quaternary.
Nga Pukenga Motuhake | Important Skills
You must be a registered midwife, ideally with 5 years of post-registration practice, have a great understanding of the NZ maternity system and hold a post-graduate qualification or be working towards one.
The successful candidates will role model excellent midwifery practice and work within the NZCOM standards of practice, with a commitment to incorporating the principles of Turanga Kaupapa within your practice.
Ko wai matou | Our Organisation
We are Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland. We provide health and disability services to more than half a million people living in central Auckland, regional services for Northland and greater Auckland, and specialist national services for the whole of New Zealand. Our main sites are Auckland City Hospital, Greenlane Clinical Centre and Starship Children's Hospital, located in central Auckland.
We are part of Health New Zealand|Te Whatu Ora, the overarching organisation for New Zealand's national health service. Health New Zealand leads the day-to-day running of the health system, with functions delivered at local, district, regional and national levels.
We are also an Accredited Employer with Immigration NZ (Please visit Immigration NZ Accredited Employer Work Visa for more information if you will be needing a Work Visa)
We are committed to upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi and providing culturally safe care. We value role modelling manaakitanga as demonstrated by Ngati Whatua in the gifting of their whenua on which our hospitals stand. We aspire to having a workforce reflective of the communities we serve and achieving equitable outcomes for all.
He aha nga painga o tenei mahi mou | Why you will enjoy working here
We recognise there is more to life than mahi | work, and we encourage and provide access to all our staff several services and benefits to support themselves whilst they are employed within Te Toka Tumai Auckland.
Me pehea te tuku tono | How to apply
Please submit your application online, outlining your experience and motivation to apply to this role.
If you have any queries about accessibility, or technical issues with the online process, or require information in an accessible format, please contact Jeanine Taccad, Recruitment Consultant via ****** to discuss how we can best support your application.
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