Midwifery Unit Manager Postnatal Services

**Job no**: 905160
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide CBD
**Categories**: Nursing/Midwifery
- **Women's and Children's Health Network, Women’s and Babies Division - North Adelaide - 5006**:

- **Classification - RN3/M3 - $125,183 to $130,779 per annum + superannuation**:

- **Full Time**:

- Ongoing**

**Join Our Exceptional Team: Midwifery Unit Manager, Postnatal Services**

An exciting opportunity exists to join the Women's and Babies Division as Midwifery Unit Manager, Postnatal Services. This pivotal role oversees the 42-bed Postnatal Ward, and the Midwifery Home Visiting service, ensuring exceptional care is provided for new mothers and their newborns.

As the Midwifery Unit Manager, you will leverage your clinical expertise to coordinate and lead a multidisciplinary team, ensuring continuity and quality of patient care. Your leadership skills, including effective communication, problem-solving, conflict resolution, and negotiation abilities, will be instrumental in fostering a positive work culture and achieving outstanding patient outcomes.

In this dynamic role, you will be accountable for the outcomes of midwifery practices and multidisciplinary teams, addressing inconsistencies between practice and policy, and developing team performance. Your ability to review and improve models of care to be person and family-centred will be highly valued.

To thrive in this role, you must be a Registered Midwife or Nurse and Midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA), holding a current practicing certificate and at least three years of post-registration experience. Additionally, you should possess:

- Effective leadership skills and highly developed communication abilities
- Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team
- Demonstrated ability to foster a workplace that develops staff potential
- Proven flexibility, innovation, and creativity within the service setting
- Demonstrated competence in relevant nursing and/or midwifery practices
- Experience in management, leadership, problem-solving, negotiation, and conflict management
- Knowledge of relevant legislation, industrial agreements, standards, codes, ethics, and competency standards

To find out the specifics, including the **key selection criteria** and **special conditions**, please go to the relevant attached role description(s).

**What WCHN Can Offer You**
- **Salary package** a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year. Click here for more information.
- **Access to Fitness Passport** (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
- **Free public transport** for SA Health Metropolitan Hospital workers to and from the Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
- **Access to generous leave** provisions and professional **development**opportunities
- Support for you and your family via our **Employee Assistance Program**

**About Us**

The **Women’s & Children’s Health Network** provides state of the art health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We are the state’s leading provider of specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions as well as being SA’s largest maternity and obstetric service.

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**Special Conditions**:
To find out more about this role, including key selection criteria, all special conditions and minimum requirements, please on the attached role description and also review our document checklists below.

Immunisation Requirements Checklist

Applicant Documents Checklist

**Application Instructions**

**Other Important Information**

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

**Enquiries**:
Jennie Magor - Midwifery Manager - WABS

08 81617722

**Application Closing Date: Sunday, 6**th** July 2025 - 11:55pm**

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**Advertised**: 05 Jun 2025 Cen. Australia Standard Time
**Applications close**: 06 Jul 2025 Cen. Australia Standard Time