Midwifery Manager

**Employment Type**: Permanent Full Time
**Position Classification**: Nurse Manager Grade 5
**Location**: Nepean Hospital
**Remuneration**: $150,623.88 - $153,175.41 per annum
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: REQ513261
**Applications Close**: 10/09/2024
- With _**_CORE_**_ Values of _**_C_**_ollaboration, _**_O_**_penness, _**_R_**_espect and _**_E_**_mpowerment,_
- working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed_
- and develop in your chosen career role._

**About Us**

Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean and Blue Mountains and Lithgow Region.

Nepean Hospital is a teaching hospital that provides tertiary referral services in emergency care, coronary care, diagnostics, gynaecology, paediatric, neonatal intensive care/ICU, maternity, mental health, rehabilitation, and surgery. The Nepean Campus has recently experienced tremendous growth and aims to support communities within and outside of Sydney’s western suburbs, providing world-class clinical facilities, services, and care.

A career changing and an incredible employment opportunity is now available to join the Women's and Children's Health team in the role of Midwifery Manager. This is a Permanent Full Time role working Monday to Friday.

The Midwife Manager provides the Clinical, Operational and Professional Nursing and Midwifery leadership to the Women’s and Children’s Division including Maternity, Paediatrics and Neonatal Intensive Care unit to facilitate the effective safe operations of the services.

The Role is responsible for the efficient and effective operational management of the service. Overall, the role is to manage and lead the team, systems and effective service delivery which encompasses business planning, financial, human resources and financial accountabilities for the service.

This position is also accountable for promoting, facilitating and providing clinical governance to enhance best care outcomes for Women and their Families and, to ensure safe Nursing and Midwifery practice standards are maintained, which includes leading evidence based professional practice, ensuring management of staffing resources matches demand and, the oversight of capacity and variance management planning.

**Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees**
- Accrued Day Off (ADO) (full time employees only)
- Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
- Novated Leasing
- Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
- Fitness Passport

**What you will bring to the role**:

- Current Midwifery Registration with AHPRA without conditions
- Demonstrated Nursing/Midwifery knowledge and skills that support excellence in health outcomes and provision of safe care
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including complaints management
- Demonstrated experience managing human and financial resources effectively
- Demonstrated experience and understanding of the clinical governance requirements of a Tertiary Maternity and Neonatal Service
- Extensive Nursing /Midwifery leadership and management experience with proven ability to work in a complex and changing environment
- Demonstrated understanding of professional ethics, and experience leading a team
- Experience in leading quality improvement within Women’s and Children’s services including development of midwifery models of care
- Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa._

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