Extended Postnatal Care Coordinator

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Nursing

Reference: 59539

**Working in Healthcare has never been more important or meaningful**

**_ Our Extended Post Natal Care at Monash Women’s is truly a great area to gain further experience across the Maternity scope of practice. Grow your experience in leadership with a skilled management team_**

**Our Journey**:
Monash Women’s provides an extended postnatal care service - which provides women with midwifery follow-up at home to ensure all is well with mother and baby post discharge from hospital. The service helps smooth the transition to home life and provides a check of both physical and emotional wellbeing and provides support for feeding, settling, breastfeeding and linking families to additional care as required.

Our Maternity team in EPC recognises the needs and acknowledges the dignity, culture and values of the individual woman and her family. We aim to empower women and their families within a service that embraces both continuity of philosophy and consistency of advice and information.

**A Day in the Life**:
We are now looking for an experienced and motivated midwife to join our specialist team. Tap into the life experience of some of Victoria’s most senior and experienced clinicians who have built their careers at Monash Health.

The **Extended Postnatal Care Coordinator** performs as a strategic leader, providing day to day assistance and support for the EPC Midwife Manager to ensure a high standard of service provision.
- We have an ongoing part time opportunity
- We also have opportunities for Registered Midwives to rotate through EPC to gain experience and grow your career in Maternity. These are fixed term opportunities.

**What You Bring**:
You are an experienced Registered Midwife and you will be inspired every day working with likeminded, passionate colleagues who share the same values and the same purpose as you.

Monash Health is on journey of innovation and change. You will look forward to embracing this change and innovation as we are undertake a lot of exciting new projects in our midwifery home visiting service.

**On a Personal Level, you**:

- Are Self-directed
- Work in collaboration with other EPC Co-ordinators and leadership team
- Demonstrated ability to manage change
- Provide clinical and administrative management of the EPC under direction of the Midwife Manager
- Are passionate about ongoing professional development

**What you need**:

- To be considered for the ongoing opportunity, you will need to demonstrate experience in Maternity and EPC and ideally, worked in the position of EPC co-ordinator in the past.
- Demonstrated experience in Post Natal, lactation and domiciliary care
- Demonstrated Leadership capability
- Collaborative approach to providing women centred care

**In Return**
- Our midwives are offered many opportunities in midwifery care due to the diversity of services we provide
- We will encourage you to develop a culture that integrates midwifery research, education and practice
- Excellent opportunities for professional growth

For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Lucy Johnston - Recruitment team Leader Nursing and Midwifery on 0436626130

**Monash Health is a great place to work**

Our employees enjoy a range of benefits including:

- salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay
- a comprehensive Health and Wellbeing program
- free flu vaccinations
- private health insurance at discounted rates
- health imaging services
- + more

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service and proudly provides healthcare to one quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire lifespan from newborn and children, to adults, the elderly, their families and carers. More than 22,000 people work at over 40 care locations across south-eastern Melbourne.

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity and we are 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 and our five iCare values.

**How to Apply**

Applications are only accepted that are submitted via the Monash Health online Mercury System (e-recruit).
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