Extended Postnatal Care Coordinator

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Nursing

Reference: 57063
- **Registered Midwife - EPC Co-ordinator Dandenong**

Grow your career at Monash Health as a Registered Midwife with this opportunity as an **EPC Co-Ordinator** at Dandenong Hospital
- Manage your work/life balance - permanent part time
- Work close to home
- Specialist Midwifery role with professional development encouraged and supported

Monash Health is the largest public health service in Victoria, employing over 18,000 people across a range of specialities.

Monash Women's maternity service is part of Monash Health and provides health care across south Eastern Melbourne, uniquely integrating in one organisation all levels of health services - primary, secondary and tertiary care, as well as world renowned research and teaching facilities.

Our maternity service is the largest maternity provider in Victoria providing care to over 9,000 women each year across three hospitals: Monash Medical Centre, Dandenong and Casey.

**About the Role**

We are excited to announce opportunities to work across a full scope of practice within our Maternity Services at Dandenong hospital.

We are a collaborative service across Monash Women’s, and Dandenong Maternity has opportunities to grow in provide women centred care. We work within a team model of care - Turquoise, Jade and Rose Quartz teams and in practicing within this model, we provide our women and their families, a consistency across their journey.

Dandenong is looking for **Extended Postnatal Care Co-ordinator** who is looking to work in an **ongoing part time capacity** across our Monash Women’s Program. EPC works via a rotating roster, 7 days a week.

**Why Dandenong Hospital?**
- We offer services to a multicultural catchment area which supports diversity and equity for all women. Our numbers of births are growing along with the population growth in this area.
- Dandenong midwives work with multidisciplinary, collaborative teams which consistently care for women throughout pregnancy, birth and postnatally
- Dandenong provides a support clinic to our refugee community in greater Dandenong

**About You**

You are an enthusiastic Midwife who has excellent communication and interpersonal skills and is willing to commit to team work and ongoing professional development that align with the Monash health Women’s new Service Direction. You demonstrate the ability to lead by example and provide coaching and support to other midwives and students. You show passion for leading example in providing excellent women centre care, and show commitment to being an advocate for birthing women. You are an advocate of the Monash Health Strategic Guiding Principles

**What you need**:

- Minimum 3 years birth/postnatal experience
- Willingness to work both lead and work within the EPC team
- Australian working rights
- Current AHPRA registration

**What we offer**:

- Being part of our leading & growing organisation
- Appropriate orientation across all sites and supernumerary time at the commencement of each rotation
- Mentorship & career guidance and opportunities to progress your career in Maternity
- access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your clinical skills & knowledge base
- avenues to further develop your leadership & project management skills

In addition, you will have access to benefits including salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay, access to onsite subsidised staff car parking and gym, uniform and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

**How to Apply**

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.

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