St George Hospital - Midwifery Unit Manager 2 - 1 South Postnatal - Temporary Full Time

About the role

The Midwifery Unit Manager Level 2 is responsible for leading, directing, and coordinating patient or client care, ensuring the practice of nursing and/or midwifery is safe and efficient, and managing the business and management functions and processes of the ward or unit.

Responsibilities

• Lead, direct, and co-ordinate patient or client care
• Ensure the practice of nursing and/or midwifery is safe and efficient, maintaining standards of care through continual quality improvement initiatives
• Lead and coordinate the nursing and midwifery and multidisciplinary care team at the ward or unit level
• Monitor and manage the business and management functions and processes of the ward or unit
• Demonstrate leadership capabilities through attitude, skills, behavior, and attributes such as broad midwifery experience and knowledge, understanding of patient-centered service delivery, professional integrity, ethical conduct, accountability, advocacy, enabling others, cultivating collaborative relationships, and commitment to advancing the profession of midwifery and care provision.

Requirements

• Current registration as a Registered Midwife with the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia
• A relevant management tertiary qualification or equivalent work experience, or a combination of study and work experience with a demonstrated commitment to professional development
• A demonstrated knowledge and experience in the management and delivery of health care services
• A proven ability in innovative clinical service delivery, harm minimization, and practice development
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills that demonstrate the ability to engage, enable, and manage teams
• A proven ability to create and maintain a positive workplace culture and articulate and achieve a vision for midwifery services
• Demonstrated recent midwifery management experience

Qualifications

• Relevant management tertiary qualification or equivalent work experience

Skills

• Broad midwifery experience and knowledge
• Understanding and acceptance that patients are the central focus of service delivery
• Professional integrity
• Ethical conduct
• Accountability
• Advocacy
• Enabling others
• Cultivation of collaborative relationships and effective team work
• Commitment to advancing the profession of midwifery and care provision

Benefits

• Financial benefits - Salary packaging options, up to $9K for living expenses, $2.6K meal & entertainment, Novated Leasing, and discounted private health insurance
• Work-life balance - Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees) in addition to annual leave
• Professional growth - Learning and development opportunities, including in-house training with RTO My Health Learning
• Health & wellbeing - Discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members