Antenatal Clinic Midwife at Hawke's Bay District Health Board (Hastings/Napier), Hawkes Bay

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi. Engari, he toa takitini.

Success is not the work of one, but the work of many.

Fixed term 18 July 2022 to 19 March 2023

40 Hours per fortnight (0.5FTE)

A rare and exciting opportunity has presented for a Midwife to join our Te Kakano Antenatal Clinic team in maternity services.

The Antenatal Clinic Midwife is a vital member of our outpatient team supporting safe, effective, culturally responsive midwifery care to women and whanau accessing Te Kakano Antenatal clinic

Hawke's Bay Maternity is recognised nationally as providing innovative programs to improve maternal and infant health and wellbeing. In addition to our main secondary care birthing facility, we are the only DHB in New Zealand with a co-located Primary Birthing Unit.  Last year 700 women benefited from our purpose-built contemporary home away from home facilities. With this incredible facility we are able to actively support and encourage women to birth naturally. 

We pride ourselves on clinical excellence and we will support you to achieve the same.  We encourage a workforce that is innovative, eager to learn and enhance their skills, and is passionate about caring for our community.

This role has a strong focus on addressing health inequalities as well as ensuring a positive experience for women and whanau.

We are proud of our team’s diversity and believe in the strength of a diverse and inclusive workforce - we know this helps us achieve the best outcomes for our women, babies and their whānau.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• A strong equity and quality focus for improving our outpatient services for women and whanau
• Strong primary and secondary skills
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with women and families as well as other health professionals
• Passion for helping woman, whanau and colleagues
• A can-do attitude
• Ability to work effectively within a busy environment with competing demands
• Willingness to work hard
• This is a job-share position with each midwife working 0.5 FTE each.

The ideal candidate would have a degree of flexibility and the ability to support planned and unplanned leave.

The successful candidate would be multi-jobbed as a Staff Midwife 0.1 - 0.5 FTE work a minimum of 0.6 FTE across both positions.

If you are not already living in Hawke's Bay and making the most of what's on offer, you should know it boasts an enviable lifestyle with great homes, superb schools, a burgeoning economy, and no traffic headaches.  Whether you like living by the sea, next to the river, nestled in the hills, in a village community, or an art deco city...Hawke's Bay has it all.

View the Position Profile HERE

For more information please contact Roisin Van Onselen, Clinical Midwife Manager, Communities, Women & Children Directorate, ph. (06) 878 8109, ext. 6069.

We are committed to delivering and living our DHB values of He kauanuanu – Respect, Ākina – Improvement, Rāranga te tira– Teamwork and Tauwhiro – Care. You should be someone who has similar personal values.

As per COVID-19 Public Health Response Amendment Act (No 2) 2021, Hawkes Bay DHB requires ALL its employees to be both fully vaccinated against COVID-19 which now includes boosters.  For full details of this mandate, please click HERE.

Failure to meet these requirements will result in your application being rejected.