Company description:

Grampians Health exists to serve our communities across the Grampians region, providing complete care as close as possible to people's homes.

Job description:

$41.17 to $50.68 per hour plus salary packaging | Registered Midwife, Early Parenting Centre

Permanent opportunities available

About The Role

Grampians Health is launching a new Early Parenting Centre in Lucas, Ballarat Victoria, offering day stay and residential (home stay) services.

These centres are specifically designed to support mothers, fathers, parents, carers, and families with children up to four years old, providing essential services through a dedicated nurse-led multidisciplinary team.

The foundation of high-quality and safe EPC service delivery relies on:

A robust nursing leadership team, led by Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Nurses, offering oversight and support for the multidisciplinary clinical team.

Our collaborative clinical team, anchored by MCH Nurses, registered nurses, registered midwives, and enrolled nurses, augmented by allied health professionals like social workers, psychologists, and specialists including Aboriginal health care workers and General Practitioners.

The service will provide flexible targeted services including group sessions, day stay, 4-night stay program, outreach and telehealth targeted to enhance the parent-child relationship and support parents with strategies to achieve their parenting goals.

As a Registered Midwife in the Grampians region, you'll provide woman-centred care aligned with the EPC's model. You'll collaborate within a nurse-led multidisciplinary team to promote maternal health and child development, implementing early interventions as needed. This includes supporting various parenting programs and assuming leadership responsibilities when necessary.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide clinical service to admitted families and implement the EPC model of care.
• Pay an active role in the day-to-day implementation of the EPC model of care.
• Actively participate in opportunities for further development and learning around early parenting practices
• Work as part of the nurse led multidisciplinary team to support parents to achieve their parenting goals.
• Maintain an understanding of parenting challenges and promote prevention, early intervention and help-seeking opportunities.
• Recognise and promote factors that contribute to connection to culture and community diversity, and promote self-determination in decision-making.

Qualifications & Experience

• Hold a current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a Registered Midwife
• Demonstrated clinical experience in early maternal health and child health and development.
• Demonstrated ability to strengthen client capacity to reach their goals.
• Ability to work a rotating roster consisting of days and nights throughout the EPC.
• Demonstrated understanding of broader issues, current trends and a range of possible strategies associated with the delivery of high-quality treatment modalities to people and families during the perinatal period

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Interested?

Click APPLY or if you wish to discuss the role prior to applying, contact Vikki Doddamani, Nurse Unit Manager, on 0467 680 464 for a confidential discussion.

We're actively seeking candidates for this role and will review applications as they are submitted. Applications will close when the position is filled.

About Grampians Health
Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell. Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.

Culture & Benefits

At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.

• Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunities
• Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holidays
• Access to discounted health club membership
• Staff rewards and recognition programs

Ballarat Region

Ballarat is the largest centre in Western Victoria and the state's fastest growing inland city. Dubbed Australia's most liveable city in 2020, Ballarat is home to first class education, fine dining and boutique shopping. Uniquely located within easy access to Melbourne, Geelong, Bendigo and the Western district, Ballarat is blessed with some of Australia's most significant heritage buildings and natural landscapes.

Diversity and Inclusion

All appointments are subject to a satisfactory police records check, immunisation clearance and Working with Children check and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check.

All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.

Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people.

Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex and asexual LGBTQIA+.