61419 - 02GYU


Practice Support Midwife
Full-Time and Part-Time Permanent

Closes: 02 May 2024

Classification: Registered Midwife Level 2
Salary: $100,957 - $107,000 plus superannuation
Position No: 61419 - 02GYU
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 04 April 2024
Contact Officer: Rebekah Howard on Rebekah.a.howard@act.gov.au or +61 (02) 5124 6087


What can we offer you:

  • City living without the traffic – click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
  • Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
  • Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
  • Flexible working conditions.
  • 11.5% Superannuation.
  • Scholarships for education support
  • Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).

About the Role:

Are you an experienced Registered Midwife looking for your next challenge?

Are you ready to jump into a clinical education and leadership role?

Then we are looking for you!

Canberra Health Services is seeking enthusiastic and motivated Registered Midwives to join our Practice Support Midwifery team. You will provide educational and clinical support to student midwives across antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care services, as well as continuity of care models. You will be working in partnership with the University of Canberra to support their midwifery students as they grow and develop.

Successful candidates are provided ongoing education and training opportunities. You will be part of a supportive multi-disciplinary team that will work with you to expand and develop your clinical skills to care for the community within Canberra and surrounding regions.

For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.

Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

  • Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
  • Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.

For more information on this position and how to apply "click here"

Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.

Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind

CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.

Canberra Hospital Expansion Project – CHS is constructing a new critical services building called ‘Building 5’ which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territory’s history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution.

North Canberra Hospital - As of 3 July 2023 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities.

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