Senior Midwives, Women's Health

Senior Midwives – Women’s Health

• South Auckland –Permanent Full/Part Time Roles
• Supportive work environment & programme
• Focus on supporting you and your career pathway in New Zealand

Our Organisation:

Health NZ Counties Manukau is a dynamic and progressive organisation at the forefront of innovative health care delivery within the New Zealand Public Health Sector. We continue to work with others to achieve equity in key health indicators for Maaori, Pacific and communities with health disparities and will continue to develop and implement plans, based on local needs to improve the health and wellbeing of Counties Manukau region. Our main sites are Middlemore Hospital, Kidz First Hospital and Manukau Health Park.

We are part of Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora, the overarching organisation for New Zealand’s national health service. HNZ leads the day-to-day running of the health system, with functions delivered at local, district, regional and national levels. Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We welcome applications from our diverse Maaori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities. 

About the Opportunities:

Come work in a midwifery driven environment that strives to meet the needs of our mama, pepe and whaanau as well as our midwives’ passion and drive to give outstanding care that is second to none. 

Our values of Whakawhanaungatanga (Valuing everyone), Manaakitanga (Kindness), Kotahitanga (Together) and Rangatiratanga (Excellence) support our desire to meet the needs of a diverse and wonderful community. 

Counties Manukau has the highest birthing population of any district in New Zealand with 8195 women giving birth in the region during 2020 so there is wide variety of experience to be gained.

You will be challenged by the complexity of women birthing in the our region but this in turns provides the incredible fulfilment of making a difference during pregnancy, birth and the post-natal period. 

Health New Zealand Counties Manukau is open to exploring the design of clinical midwifery roles to suit practice across the spectrum of care. Come to us with a great career idea and we will see what we can do! We are here to support midwives in their career pathway development, potentially we can customise clinical roles to suit your specialty interests. 

We have senior midwife opportunities available throughout our service as a:

• Case Loading Midwife
• Clinical Midwife Manager:

• • Maternity Wards

• Midwife Clinical Coach
• Clinical Midwife Specialist - Maternal & Fetal Medicine

Why us?

• A learning environment focused on supporting you and your career pathway
• Flexibility with shifts and locations of work
• Further education/learning opportunities

Please indicate in your cover letter which role/s you are interested in being considered for.

If you are an internationally registered midwife, please visit the Midwifery Council of New Zealand’s website to explore your eligibility for New Zealand registration https://www.midwiferycouncil.health.nz/

Apply online now at https://careers.tewhatuora.govt.nz/locations/counties-manukau/ or for further information you can contact Fran Upoko in the Recruitment Centre at email nursemidwifejobs@middlemore.co.nz

To contact the Service directly please contact any of the following managers:

• Christina Mallon, Chief Midwife Christina.Mallon@middlemore.co.nz
• Tanya Wilson, Maternity Service Manager on tanya.wilson@middlemore.co.nz
• Amanda Hinks, Service Manager Primary Birthing Units amanda.hinks@middlemore.co.nz

Job Number: CMH08087

 

At Counties Manukau Health people and their lives matter to us. We are a values based and inclusive organisation that is committed to delivering the best health outcomes for our community. To help us achieve this we need a workforce that reflects the population we serve. We strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds who share our values and have a passion to work in our community and would greatly value seeing applicants from our Maaori and Pacific communities. We are also committed to our Disability Strategy, which focuses on people with disabilities; they are our patients, whaanau, community and our staff - all carefully considered in our action plan. Together we will improve the accessibility needs for everyone who has a disability. Our values are Valuing Everyone- Whakawhanaungatanga , Kind –Manaakitanga, Together –Kotahitanga, Excellent- Rangatiratanga. If these are your values too, then join us today.