Midwifery Director

3 days ago

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Metro South Health Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

Your new role:

As the Midwifery Director, you will provide strategic, operational, and professional leadership to ensure the delivery of safe, quality, and efficient midwifery services within our health service. Your expert guidance will shape clinical governance, support workforce capability, and foster continuous improvement across midwifery practice and healthcare teams.

  • Leading the coordination and management of midwifery services to meet operational and strategic goals while ensuring compliance with clinical governance and quality frameworks.
  • Collaborating with nursing and midwifery executives, internal and external stakeholders to promote innovative models of care and multidisciplinary integration.
  • Overseeing workforce development, education strategies, and professional leadership to empower midwifery teams and drive transformational change.
  • Managing fiscal responsibility, data analysis, and performance monitoring.

About you:

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced midwifery leader who is passionate about advancing midwifery practice and delivering exceptional patient care. The ideal candidate will:

  • Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of contemporary midwifery theory, clinical governance, and innovative care models.
  • Exhibit strong leadership skills with a proven track record in managing teams, driving change, and fostering collaborative partnerships.
  • Possess excellent strategic planning, fiscal management, and data analysis capabilities.
  • Be committed to continuous quality improvement, research integration, and workforce capability development.

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What we can offer you:

  • We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
  • We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
  • We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
  • You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

The Metro South Health (MSH) Executive Director Nursing and Midwifery (EDNM) Division provides overarching governance, leadership, strategic support and guidance for the Nursing and Midwifery professions across the health service. The EDNM Division is responsible for creating and delivering the MSH Nursing and Midwifery Strategy and associated Workforce, Education and Research priorities in alignment with the MSH Strategic Plan. The EDNM Division sets the governance and structure that enables the MSH Nursing and Midwifery Professional Stream to function in alignment with MSH values, meet practice standards, comply with legislative requirements, and deliver on quality indicators.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.

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