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Otepoti Dunedin Maternity
Salary Band $83,000 - $115,000 per annum + Kiwisaver

• 1 FTE Position (40 hours a week)
• Project based - Fixed term until June 2025
• Excellent opportunity to coordinate our outreach services

Lead and collaborate with the wider senior leadership team to support primary care in a tertiary environment and provide an antenatal and postnatal midwifery service to persons accessing the outreach which would include caseload team/s model when needed.

Mō te tūranga | About the role

• Support the provision of an outreach service which meets the need of whanau, monitoring whanau needs, clinical outcomes, whanau satisfaction and clinical standards
• Coordinate resources to meet identified needs, encompassing staff and equipment
• Monitor communication and documentation standards
• Notify managers any areas of concern e.g. disciplinary matters, practice issues
• Provide clinical and professional leadership
• Ensure discharge planning/handover of care to a well child provider processes are robust and timely
• Demonstrate an understanding of consumables within the service, and assists in identifying variances
• Ensure the service is appropriately staffed and best practice human resource standards are met,
• Manage quality and risk programmes.

Mōu ake | About you

• It is essential that you are a NZ Registered Midwife and hold a current APC
• Hold a relevant post-graduate qualification
• Demonstrate sound professional judgement
• Have relevant knowledge of patient safety and resource management,
• Demonstrate clinical quality, safety and best practice.
• Confidence to build successful working relationships with those around you, the ability to work independently or within a multidisciplinary team environment
• Confidence with te ao Māori, tikanga, and te reo Māori or a commitment to starting your journey

Painga | Benefits

• Continuous support for career development
• Subsidised gym membership and discounted health insurance
• Access to discounted staff holiday accommodation and a range of retail discounts

Mō mātou | About us
Here at Otepoti Dunedin Hospital, we birth 1,800 births a year as part of a full range of primary, secondary and tertiary maternity services. We offer inpatient and outpatient antenatal, delivery and postnatal services and a Lactation Consultancy Service. Our brand of care and compassion involves a very special blend of strength, compassion and cool headedness from our midwives who welcome our babies into the world.

Find out more about midwifery at Health New Zealand I Te Whatu Ora Southern here Midwifery | Southern Health | He hauora, he kuru pounamu!

Health New Zealand I Te Whatu Ora - Southern has the largest geographical coverage of all the New Zealand regions, providing services to 350,000 people in diverse communities. We take pride in all the services we provide, and our aim is to improve, promote and protect the health of our region. We believe that our dedicated and passionate staff are a significant driving force behind the achievement of these standards, and we need more like-minded people to help us continue providing for our community.

Now is a great time to relocate to family-friendly Southern if you are considering a move! The Southern district offers excellent amenities, first class early childhood through to tertiary education and the opportunity to have an outstanding work-life balance. Check out https://careers.southernhealth.nz/ for what the region and we can offer you and your whanau.

Utu whānui |Salary range
This role falls under the terms and conditions of the MERAS Midwives Collective Agreement (1 February 2024 – 30 April 2025) and falls between the step 2 ($83,667 p.a prorata) and Step 8 ($115,715 p.a prorata) of the Community Midwives Salary Scale.

Rā mōnehu |Closing Date: 29 November 2024
Due to the fast-paced nature of what we do, our vacancy close dates may be subject to change. Don’t delay, make sure you apply as soon as possible.

Tono ināianei | Apply now
We only accept online applications. Please apply via our website: https://careers.southernhealth.nz/

If you currently work for Te Whatu Ora- Health New Zealand - Southern , please apply for this role via our internal careers site, found here: Pulse > Applications > Corporate > Success Factors

For further information regarding the clinical aspects of the role please contact Fioan Thompson, Fiona.Thompson@southerndhb.govt.nz

All conversations will be confidential in nature.

Pre-Employment checks
In the interests of protecting our people and our patients, all appointments will be subject to:

• Occupational Health Assessment
• Police Vetting / Ministry of Justice safety checks
• Serious misconduct checks (previous Public Service departments and statutory Crown entities only).