Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Clinical Midwife Consultant Grade 2
Remuneration: $131,870.90 - $134,500.70 per annum plus superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ580704
Applications Close: Sunday 15th June 2025

Clinical Midwife Consultant – Quality and Innovation – The Royal Hospital For Women

Previous Applicants Please do Not Apply

The Royal Hospital for Women is a multi-faceted tertiary referral and teaching hospital offering women a wide range of comprehensive women's health services. It is one of the world's leading hospitals for mothers and babies and for women with benign gynaecological and gynae-oncology conditions. The hospital is committed to the provision of excellence in health care for women as well as continued research into how to best provide that care.

The Royal Hospital for Women is the only stand-alone Women's Hospital in New South Wales providing unique opportunities for innovative clinical practice initiatives.

It is part of South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) and is co-located with other hospitals on the Randwick Hospitals Campus. The Campus offers one of the State's most comprehensive ranges of facilities and expertise in health care.

The Royal Hospital for Women is close to some of Sydney's best beaches, restaurants and sporting facilities and only fifteen (15) minutes from the Sydney Central Business District and harbour, adding a quality lifestyle to the satisfaction that comes from working within a committed and decided team. The Royal Hospital for Women is situated between the University of New South Wales and Coogee Beach.

What You'll Be Doing:
The Clinical Midwife Consultant (CMC) provides expert clinical advice to women, family, carers and other health care professionals within a defined specialty through the delivery of specialist consultant service. The Clinical Midwife Consultant (CMC), Quality and Innovation role is to review current evidence relating to maternity services, enhance continuity models of care and contribute to improving maternity care outcomes and experiences. The CMC will also develop outcome measures for evaluating success of models of maternity care, engage with stakeholders and collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to maintain and contribute to high quality service delivery in line with current trends in maternity care.

The CMC will develop an action focused reporting and monitoring framework to support regular reporting of project activity and performance to the Maternity Division Quality and Safety Committee. The purpose of the role will be aligned with ‘connecting, listening and responding: A blueprint for Action – Maternity Care in NSW’ to ensure the maternity service is equipped to provide individualised care that is responsive to people’s unique needs and achieves the health outcomes that matter to them. The CMC will drive innovative practices in maternity care through consultancy, clinical leadership, research, education and clinical service planning. The portfolio will oversee the clinical business rule committee to ensure local business rules remain up to date with contemporary practices, are of high quality and evidence based.

Benefits:

• Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees) in addition to annual leave.
• Salary packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay! Up to $9K for living expenses and $2.6K meal & entertainment & Novated Leasing.
• Discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members.
• Discounted Private Health Insurance.
• For Nurses – Opportunity to apply for Continuing Education allowance based on tertiary qualifications attained where applicable.
• For Nurses – Opportunity to obtain Clinical Nurse Specialist status where relevant.

Selection Criteria:

1. Current Authority to Practice as a Registered Midwife, Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and current NSW Drivers Licence.
2. Minimum five years full time equivalent post qualification experience, with at least three years full time equivalent experience in the specialty field and post graduate qualifications relevant to the field of practice.
3. Proven clinical leadership skills and an ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary framework with a demonstrated commitment to excellence in Midwifery practice.
4. Demonstrated effective communication and inter-personal skills across a variety of mediums and an understanding of the practice development framework.
5. Proven ability to implement changes and develop direction in clinical practice by the utilisation of evidence based research.
6. Demonstrated skills in strategic and clinical service planning including an understanding of organisational behaviour, change management and cultural change processes.
7. Demonstrated skills in project management and quality improvement including competency in the use of contemporary information systems.
8. Demonstrated clinical expertise in client-centred consultancy with the ability to work independently.

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