Core Midwife

**Permanent 0.8FTE position working 64 hours per **fortnight.**

**Maternity Unit, Nelson Hospital**
- Work as a midwife in true midwifery practice in a wonderful maternity unit
- We are committed to women-centred and culturally respectful care.
- We have a fabulous supportive midwifery team environment.

**Ngā mōhiohio e pā ana ki tēnei mahi (About this position)**

As a **recent **or** new graduate**, who meets the Midwifery Council and NZCOM enrolment requirements for the Midwifery First Year of Practice programme (MFYP), we will assist your transition to practice through a comprehensive orientation, access to midwifery educator support and a range of clinical experiences to help prepare you to become a confident midwifery practitioner.

As a midwife you will be able to use all of your clinical and organisational skills and expertise across pregnancy, birthing and postnatal care.

You will be rostered across AM, PM and Nights and will have the choice of working 4 hr, 8 hr or 12 hr shifts.

The best part of our unique midwifery first year of practice programme is being fully supported to get to experience working across our two secondary units (great experience), our primary unit, and community midwifery teams too We will support you with accommodation and travel to work and experience all of these opportunities as a unique part of our Midwifery First Year of Practice programme.

**Why come to the Nelson-Tasman region?**

New midwifery staff are saying:
“We love the pace of life, the climate, the beauty of the region and the team is wonderful to work with"

We have 1,500 births a year across Te Tau Ihu and we can promise that your core midwifery role will be busy and varied - so no two days will be the same. The best thing is that our service is midwifery led so you will get to **_be _**a midwife practising in all areas.

**Ko wai he kaitono tōtika? (Who is an appropriate applicant?)**

You will have loads of passion and a commitment to women centred and culturally respectful care.

**Ā mātou rōpū (About our team)**

The Nelson Marlborough midwifery team is awesome We are very proud of our teams and the service we provide to our communities. Our midwifery led service has close collegial relationships with our Obstetric and Paediatric teams. The Nelson Hospital secondary maternity team works closely with our local primary maternity unit, located in Motueka, and our other secondary maternity unit based at Wairau Hospital in Blenheim.

The team not only enjoys a positive work environment in an active NZCOM region - we also love to get together for social activities. We can guarantee you’ll receive a very warm welcome into our teams

Here at Te Whatu Ora (Nelson Marlborough) we encourage a workforce that’s innovative, eager to learn and enhance their skills, and passionate about caring for our community. We do great work and we need a talented and diverse team to help us deliver.

Nelson Tasman is a place of stunning natural landscapes - lakes, mountains, rivers, native bush and beaches. The region is known for its relaxed lifestyle and year round dry and sunny days.

**Ngā huanga o tēnei mahi (The benefits of this position)**
- ** Clinical support from a midwifery educator and clinical coach?** You sure will have
- ** Ability to work as a midwife in all the areas you love? **Absolutely we value our midwifery led service
- ** Additional remuneration?** Absolutely You will be supported on the Midwifery Quality and Leadership programme and to fully utilise your CPD fund.
- ** Access to education, self-development and midwifery projects? **Absolutely We will support you with your special interest areas
- ** Free onsite parking**:

- ** Being supported to work across a variety of maternity units and our community teams across Te Tau Ihu - wow What an opportunity**

**Me pēhea ahau e tono ai? (How do I apply?)**

Te Whatu Ora strongly endorses Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
- He waka eke noa. We are all in this together._