Take your midwifery career to new heights with Darling Downs Health as a Clinical Midwife at Toowoomba Health Service! Be part of a passionate team delivering compassionate, evidence-based care in a supportive continuity of care model. In this fulfilling role, you’ll work closely with women and their families, providing expert midwifery care while inspiring and mentoring the next generation of midwives. Make a meaningful impact—join us today!
We are incentivising health workers to move to Darling Downs Health, to take up a job in regional and remote Queensland. To find out if you are eligible, click here.
What your day will look like….
You'll be responsible for providing holistic midwifery care to a caseload of women, guiding them through their pregnancy journey with personalised, evidence-based practices. Working within a close-knit, multidisciplinary team, you'll lead assessments, develop care plans, and make key clinical decisions to ensure the best outcomes for both mothers and infants. A big part of your role will be offering mentorship to midwifery students and junior staff, sharing your expertise, and promoting a positive practice environment. You'll coordinate resources, manage your workload with autonomy, and collaborate with various healthcare providers to ensure comprehensive, high-quality care. Your role will also include active participation in quality improvement initiatives, ensuring adherence to safety standards, and fostering a culture of continuous learning.
Let's talk about you!
Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:
- Compassion – you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.
- Integrity – you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.
- Dignity – you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.
- Innovation – you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.
- Courage – you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up.
Why Us?
Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect. DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.
Benefits!
- Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
- A diverse work culture
- Career development
- Professional development opportunities
- Education opportunities, Study and Research
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Discounted Private Health Insurance
- Fitness Passport
- Work-Life Balance, Variety and Flexibility
- Generous Salary Sacrificing
Next step….
Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.
Find out more about us!
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Further information
We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.
For more information about Darling Downs Health, please go to www.health.qld.gov.au/darlingdowns
Documents
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