Job title: Community Midwife

Company: Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation

Location: Broken Hill, New South Wales

Salary: Earn up to $113,000 gross per annum plus superannuation, depending on experience

• Temporary accommodation, up to 4 weeks + Relocation assistance to help you get to Broken Hill
• Working Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.00pm only + 5 weeks paid annual leave per year + Accrued Days Off
• $5,000 Retention Bonus

Summary: Work in partnership with GP’s and Aboriginal Health Practitioners to implement the NSW Aboriginal Maternal Infant Health Strategy integrated within the Child and Family Health Service.

About Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation

Maari Ma Health is an Aboriginal community-controlled regional health service that has been providing a quality service to the Aboriginal people of far western New South Wales for more than 20 years and employs over 140 people within the region.

About the role

Our supportive team is on the look-out for an experienced Community Midwife to join us to provide a quality health service to the Aboriginal people of far western New South Wales. Reporting to the Manager Healthy Start, this full-time opportunity includes key responsibilities such as:

Coordinating and assist in a wide variety of midwifery treatments and care activities using a patient-centered approach in a general practice clinic.

Work as part of the Child and Family Program within the Maari Ma footprint, to provide safe and effective community midwifery services and ensure the continuity of care for mothers and children through pregnancy, infancy and ongoing into childhood.

Mentor and support Aboriginal Health Practitioners and trainees with ante natal and post-natal care, always encouraging their active participation.

Competently perform clinical midwifery duties identified as being required in the preparation, execution and monitoring of maternity care plans according to best available evidence. E.g., antenatal and post-natal assessments, baby checks, immunisations and other injections, collection of pathology samples.

Implement the AMIHS Program Activities working in collaboration with maternity, medical, obstetric, and paediatric staff to provide a range of community-based services for Aboriginal women and their babies. These services include the provision of:

a culturally appropriate continuity of care model through the antenatal and postnatal periods up to 6-8 weeks;

identification of complicated pregnancies and appropriate referral to specialists;

outreach and home visiting service;

Develop and maintain a positive collaborative working relationship with Broken Hill Health Service midwifery team, to facilitate best practice holistic, culturally appropriate care is provided throughout pregnancy and postnatal period.

Emotional and social support for women, especially those with high needs.

Benefits

Annual salary up to $113,000 gross per annum plus superannuation, depending on experience.

Working Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.00pm only, no shift weekend or on call.

Generous Salary Packaging, standard up to $15,900 per year. Plus, access to Salary Packaging Novated Leasing, Meal Entertainment and Accommodation card and Remote Area Benefits to increase the standard amount you can salary package – full benefits go to the employee.

Onsite parking, uniform, and further allowances.

5 weeks Annual Leave

Paid accrued days off (up to 12 per year)

Christmas Closure including additional paid leave to cover the period (4 days)

Flexible leave accrual

Public holidays off

CPI increases annually.

Access to use our accredited health care service for you and your family (conditions apply)

Incentives for this position

Retention bonus of $5,000 paid following 1 and 2 years of full-time service

Temporary accommodation for 4 weeks

Relocation assistance to help you get to Broken Hill

Home base travel allowance to keep in touch with your family - $600 allowance on completion of each 6 months of service for 2 years.

Skills and experience

Currently registered with, or eligible to be registered with Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency (AHPRA) as a Registered Midwife.

Minimum of three years’ midwifery experience, preferably in a community-based role.

Ability to work effectively in a community based setting with women, parents, carers, families and other service providers, and ability to respond effectively to clients who may be challenging to engage.

Currently possess or able to obtain within 3 months of commencing employment, authorisation as an immunisation provider in New South Wales.

Ability to work with Aboriginal staff and communities in a way that fosters mutual respect.

Proven ability to communicate in a clear, considerate manner with genuine compassion.

Proven experience using clinical IT systems and computing skills relevant to the position and competent in the use of information and communication technology including Microsoft Word, email and internet applications and the ability to quickly acquire skills in other applications.

The Location:

We are proud to work on Paakintji country. The Oasis of the Outback, Broken Hill is a living, breathing time capsule where the local Aboriginal Culture blends seamlessly with a rising modern art scene, all set amid a sprawling desert landscape. It is a place of huge skies, rocky red earth, and a fascinating and internationally significant history. This historic town is great for all ages and has several day-cares, primary schools, high schools, and TAFE. Beyond Broken Hill and on your doorstep, you can discover spectacular and culturally significant national parks, lush rivers and lakes, abundant wildlife, and other classic towns of outback New South Wales and beyond. Broken Hill has an airport servicing both Qantas and Rex with two-three flights a day from Sydney and Adelaide and is only a 5-hour drive from Adelaide.

How to apply

If this sounds like you then we want to hear from you! Simply click on “Working with us” page of our website. www.maarima.com.au/employment and follow the prompts. We will get in touch if you are shortlisted for this opportunity.

If you would like to learn more, please contact Claire Allan 0447 807 183 or email [email protected]

Please view our website and see the Strategic Plan, Chronic Disease Strategy and Annual Report at www.maarima.com.au

All Maari Ma Aboriginal Health employees are required to have two doses of a COVID-19 vaccination or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are encouraged to apply for this position.

Maari Ma acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land in which we live, and we pay our respect to their Elders both past and present and emerging.