Midwife Specialist - Womens Assessment Unit

Clinical Midwife Specialists for the acute maternity service

• Permanent full time and part time roles

Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity

We are seeking experienced midwives to provide senior clinical midwifery support for kaimahi at Te Toka Tumai Auckland. This role will also support our commitment to equity by enabling and improving access to care within our service. You will comfortable and knowledgeable about health equity and our commitment to upholding this within the service and our population. As a midwife specialist you will understand the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi and how it is woven into midwifery practice.

As a Clinical Midwife Specialist you will be a highly competent and confident midwife with a commitment to keeping birth normal and be experienced managing women experiencing pregnancy complexities. You will provide triage and prioritisation services for hāpū whanau accessing WAU and plan their placement within our service. You will be a specialist midwife in labour and birth care being able to support and grow our midwives in all levels of midwifery care.

 The expectation of this role is to enable you to work at the top of the midwifery scope, with full autonomy consulting with other members of the team as and when required.

Our service:

Women’s Assessment Unit (WAU)

 WAU is a 16 bed unit providing care for whānau accessing acute maternity and gynaecology services at Te Toka Tumai Auckland hospital, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. WAU is similar to a Women’s Health emergency department.

Our services include maternity assessments, both antepartum and postpartum up to six weeks, induction of labour, pregnant and non-pregnant acute gynaecological conditions, and a perinatal loss service for women 20 weeks and over who experience a fetal death in utero or require a termination of pregnancy for medical indications or fetal abnormality.

Our team includes Clinical Charge Midwives, Midwives, Gynaecology Nurses, Health Care Assistants and Ward Clerks. The team liaise closely with the multidisciplinary team, including our medical teams, community LMC midwives and private obstetricians with access to our facilitiy.

Day Assessment Unit (DAU)

Our DAU provides planned care for a wild range of pregnancy issues such as:

• SGA/FGR pathway
• PPROM / PET
• ECV
• Iron infusion
• Bloods transfusions
• USS reviews.

Labour and Birthing Suite:

LBS is a 14 bed unit with 2 high risk bed spaces. We care for whānau from across the Auckland region and due to our hospital being a regional referral centre we have whānau coming from across the motu and the pacific. We provide maternity care from primary through to quaternary.

For more information about this role please contact Emmanuelle Pauleau via epauleau@adhb.govt.nz or 021 838 629

Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills

You must be a registered midwife, ideally 5 years of post-registration practice, have a great understanding of the NZ maternity system and hold a post-graduate qualification or be working towards one.

The successful candidates will role model excellent midwifery practice and work within the NZCOM standards of practice, with a commitment to incorporating the principles of Turanga Kaupapa within your practice.

Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation

We are Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland. We provide health and disability services to more than half a million people living in central Auckland, regional services for Northland and greater Auckland, and specialist national services for the whole of New Zealand. Our main sites are Auckland City Hospital, Greenlane Clinical Centre and Starship Children’s Hospital, located in central Auckland.

We are part of Health New Zealand|Te Whatu Ora, the overarching organisation for New Zealand’s national health service. Health New Zealand leads the day-to-day running of the health system, with functions delivered at local, district, regional and national levels.

We are also an Accredited Employer with Immigration NZ (Please visit Immigration NZ Accredited Employer Work Visa for more information if you will be needing a Work Visa)

We are committed to upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi and providing culturally safe care. We value role modelling manaakitanga as demonstrated by Ngāti Whātua in the gifting of their whenua on which our hospitals stand. We aspire to having a workforce reflective of the communities we serve and achieving equitable outcomes for all.

He aha ngā painga o tēnei mahi mōu | Why you will enjoy working here

We recognise there is more to life than mahi | work, and we encourage and provide access to all our staff several services and benefits to support themselves whilst they are employed within Te Toka Tumai Auckland.

For more information on what we offer, please click here.

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

Please submit your application online, outlining your experience and motivation to apply to this role.

If you have any queries about accessibility, or technical issues with the online process, or require information in an accessible format, please contact Jeanine Taccad, Recruitment Consultant via JeanineT@adhb.govt.nz to discuss how we can best support your application.

Immigration/Visa Support

Immigration NZ has introduced a new Accredited Employer Work Visa system from 4 July 2022 that includes a simplified residency process for health workers on the new “Green List” of occupations – and this position is one of those designated critical positions! For successful candidates offered a position with us who require a Work Visa, we will provide support with their Visa application. Here are the links to two key pages of NZ Immigration's official site for more information: Immigration NZ Accredited Employer Work Visa and Immigration NZ Green List Occupations