Registered Midwife Level 2- Women’s and Children’s Division | Full-time Permanent

Closes: 30 June

Classification: Registered Midwife Level 2
Salary: $100,957 – $107,000 plus superannuation
Position No: LP, several – 02IXM
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 26 July
Contact Officer: Jennifer Eling on


What can we offer you: 

  • City living without the traffic click her to see why you should live in Canberra.
  • Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions.
  • Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
  • Flexible working conditions.
  • 11.5% Superannuation.

About the Hospital:

North Canberra Hospital (formerly Calvary Public Hospital Bruce) and Clare Holland House are now run and operated by Canberra Health Services (CHS)

This is a significant milestone as the ACT Government moves towards delivering a new billion-dollar hospital on Canberras Northside.

The current North Canberra Hospital is a level 4 hospital that provides a range of acute and sub-acute services including community based care to the residents of the northside of Canberra and Southern NSW.   North Canberra Hospital (NCH) is a 270 public hospital located in Canberras expanding northside. North Canberra Hospital operates a 24 hour Emergency Department. Inpatient services include general medicine, surgery, maternity, mental health and critical care.

Other service modalities include day surgery, specialist outpatient clinics, Hospital in the Home and the Geriatric Rapid Acute Care Evaluation service that reaches into aged care facilities across the ACT.

The new Northside Hospital will be built on the existing Calvary Hospital campus in Bruce. It will be a modern, state-of-the-art hospital for patients, visitors and its workforce and will provide more beds and increased services. Until then, it’s business as usual at the NCH, and we’ll keep providing high-quality care to our patients and community.

About the role:

The Women’s and Children’s Division within North Canberra Hospital provides maternity, neonatal, gynaecology and surgical services to women and their families in the ACT. These services include antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care; gynecology care; neonatal special care nursery support, domiciliary care and post-operative recovery. Care is provided by a multidisciplinary team including a Midwifery and Nursing Team, Medical staff, and Allied Health.

The Level 2 Midwife will provide skilled clinical care for women and newborns within the Maternity and Womens Health Unit. The Midwife will possess advanced skills in midwifery practice and have the appropriate experience to provide clinical leadership while working in a collaborative multidisciplinary team. The level 2 Midwife will be required to perform in the team leader role and deputises for the Clinical Midwife Consultant after hours.

The Level 2 Midwife will be a mentor, clinical education resource and support for other less experienced team members. The role includes development of Performance Development Plans with Level 1 RN/RMs and supports them to achieve their individualised learning plan.

The level two midwife will take responsibility for their own professional development and will undertake the training required of team leaders as required.

For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.

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Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and communitybased health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.

Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind

CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA are particularly encouraged to apply.

Canberra Hospital Expansion Project CHS is constructing a new critical services building called Building 5 which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territorys history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution.

North Canberra Hospital – As of 3 July Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities.

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Career interest categories:

Healthcare, Medical and Allied Services