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• Yorke and Northern Local Health Network, Midwifery Group Practice
• Positions available at Crystal Brook, Jamestown, Wallaroo & Port Pirie
• Midwife
• Salary : RN/M1 - $77,824 p.a. to $106,187 p.a. (pro rata)*
• Eligibility Open to Everyone
  
  

*+ 35% on-call allowance loading + 12% super + leave loading + salary sacrifice benefits + other allowances (where applicable)

Midwifery Group Practice

WHERE YOU'LL BE AND WHAT YOU'LL DO

YNLHN offers an all-risk Midwifery Group Practice, enabling midwives to work autonomously within a continuity of care caseload model. Our MGP model is recognised for its high levels of professional satisfaction and strong clinical support, allowing you to work to the full scope of your midwifery practice while delivering truly woman-centred care.

About the Role

As an MGP Midwife, you will provide continuity of care across the entire maternity journey, including:

• Antenatal care and clinics from 12–14 weeks
• Intrapartum care
• Postnatal care in hospital and at home
• Collaborative multidisciplinary clinics
• Lactation support
• Childbirth and parenting education

This role supports autonomous practice while working within a collaborative, progressive, and supportive multidisciplinary environment.

Our MGP Services

Across five MGP sites, YNLHN supports approximately 600 women and families each year:

• Larger sites: Port Pirie, Wallaroo, Clare
• Smaller sites: Jamestown, Crystal Brook

What We’re Looking For

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:

• Recent midwifery practice across the full maternity continuum
• Strong clinical knowledge within woman-centred continuity models
• Well-developed communication, leadership, and clinical escalation skills
• Experience in quality improvement and risk management
• Digital capability to support safe, effective patient care

About Us – Yorke & Northern Local Health Network

YNLHN delivers quality, accessible healthcare to communities ranging from major regional centres to remote rural towns.

Our vision: To be a global leader in rural and remote healthcare.
Our values: Community, Compassion, Quality, Integrity, Equity, and Curiosity — guiding how we care, collaborate, and lead.

Our Locations

• Clare – the heart of South Australia’s renowned Clare Valley, offering a relaxed lifestyle surrounded by world-class wineries, scenic landscapes, and a strong sense of community
• Crystal Brook – A thriving agricultural hub and gateway to the Flinders Ranges, located 200 km north of Adelaide. Close to Bowman Park and the iconic Heysen Trail.
• Jamestown – A historic town nestled along Belalie Creek, near the Southern Flinders Ranges and Bundaleer Forest, Australia’s oldest plantation forest.
• Port Pirie – A vibrant regional city on the Spencer Gulf, close to the Flinders Ranges, offering cafés, markets, arts, and strong community connections.
• Wallaroo – A popular coastal town just 160 km north of Adelaide, famous for its beaches, fishing, diving, and award-winning tourism appeal.

WHO ARE WE AND WHAT WE OFFER?

The Yorke and Northern Local Health Network (YNLHN) supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe in their work environment encouraging all people to use their talents and be valued and rewarded for their contributions.

A career in the YNLHN can be very rewarding and comes with great lifestyle benefits. Not to mention your choice of scenery from farm to ocean, vineyards, and the Southern Flinders Ranges.

At YNLHN we offer opportunities to extend, progress or consolidate your career with us in the following ways:

• Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) and meal entertainment expenses  click here more information.
• Access to professional development opportunities, enabling staff to build skills across a diverse range of services while contributing to high-quality, person-centred care for the community.
• Support for you and your family via our free Employee Assistance Program.

WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW/WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR SUCCESS?

Working in this environment, it is important to use that we employ people with the utmost integrity and commitment to provide a service to the highest possible standard to all visitors.  To ensure that we meet that commitment there are a few checks that you will be required to undertake.  These are detailed on the Role Description, but are likely to include:

• Registration or eligibility for enrolment as a Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and hold, or be eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate.
• Undergo employment screening and meet immunisation requirements.

Please contact us, if you have any queries.  For further information please see: Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy and details in the application to help guide you.

NEED TO RELOCATE?

Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility.  See what is available here: Relocation support | SA Health.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

At YNLHN we pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees. We encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, disability, all genders, and LGBTQIA+SB community and people who live with disability and/or neurodivergence.

HELP IS HERE!

Please apply online and complete the required documentation (Job ref: 933304), or reach out to

Vanessa Watson
CenSTaR Administration Officer
Phone: 0468 810 489
E-mail: vanessa.watson@sa.gov.au 

DON'T HESITATE! Applications close on Tuesday, 21 April 2026 at 11.55PM (Central Australian Standard Time)

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR NETWORK

Stay connected with our Network! Click here to find out more about working with Yorke and Northern Location Health Network or watch our video here:  Work with us - Yorke and Northern LHN

ATTACHMENTS

933304 Midwifery Group Practice Registered Midwife Role Description.pdf

Registered Midwife Job Capacity Statement.pdf

Crystal Brook Fact Sheet.pdf

Jamestown Fact Sheet.pdf

Port Pirie Fact Sheet.pdf

Wallaroo Fact Sheet.pdf

Australian applicant guidelines

International applicant guidelines