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Bring New Life into the World - Join SA Health's Premier Midwifery Team!

Join our prestigious Midwifery Exchange Program at Flinders Medical Centre as a part-time Level 1/2 Registered Midwife, where you'll support women and families during life's most precious moments whilst enjoying flexible working arrangements. This ongoing position offers unique opportunities to develop diverse skills across various maternity care settings within South Australia's largest healthcare network. Make a meaningful difference every day whilst advancing your career with comprehensive professional development opportunities and state-of-the-art facilities.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Midwifery Unit Manager, this role is responsible for providing compassionate, evidence-based midwifery care to women and families throughout pregnancy, labour, birth, and the postnatal period whilst working collaboratively within our multidisciplinary healthcare team.

Duties for the role will include:

• Assess individual patient/client needs, plan, implement and/or coordinate appropriate service delivery from a range of accepted options including other disciplines or agencies,
• Participate in quality improvement activities that contribute to patient/client safety, risk minimisation and safe work activities within the practice setting,
• Provide ward/team leader/coordination as required on a shift-by-shift basis. (A team leader is a RN/M assigned responsibility for supporting staff and coordinating patient/client care),
• Provide health promotion and education, to patients/clients or groups and carers to improve the health outcomes of individual,
• Provide, with increasing capacity over time, support and guidance to newer or less experienced staff, Enrolled Nurses, student nurses and other workers providing basic nursing care

About you:

• Registered or eligible for registration as a Midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate,
• Demonstrated competence in midwifery practice in accordance with the relevant standards,
• Experience in quality improvement activities e.g. the development and/or implementation of clinical standards, practice guidelines, protocols/audits and quality indicators,
• Experience in the leadership and direction of midwifery students, enrolled nurses and less experienced midwives,
• To be considered for the RN2C (Clinical Nurse) level you must have at least three years, full time equivalent, post registration experience with experience in the leadership and direction of student nurses, enrolled nurses, and less experienced registered nurses

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

This is a single vacancy, with two possible appointment classifications. The successful applicants will be appointed in the position appropriate to their skills, qualifications, and experience.

Want To Know More? Contact: Helen Pollard, Midwife Manager, (08) 8204 4367, Helen.Pollard@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 26 October 2025

Attachments:

• Registered Midwife Level 1 Role Description
• Clinical Midwife - Role Description
• Australian applicant guidelines
• International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
• The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.  Job ref: 914360