| Job title: | Registered Midwife |
| Contract type: | |
| Location: | Sydney |
| Industry: | |
| Salary | FT: $90,000-$110,000. Casual: $50-$60 per hour |
| Reference: | 96700 |
Job description
- Freedom to choose when and how much you want to work
- Attractive Agency Pay Rates - Paid Weekly
- Positions available all over Sydney and NSW
- We can assist you in getting your Australian Nursing Registration
- Decide your work-life balance by letting us know how much and when YOU want to work.
- Enjoy the extra money with attractive agency pay rates
- Have confidence you’re being offered the best available shifts by working with a long-standing and well-established nursing agency
- Block Bookings available if you are looking for a steady and consistent workload
- Have the opportunity to further your career by training and working in specialised fields
- Extensive training and development opportunities to advance your nursing career
- A strong support base with our friendly and experienced admin staff providing you with assistance
- Great referral bonuses available
- Full-time Base salary of $90,000 to $110,000 depending on experience and area of specialty.
- Casual Base hourly pay rate of $50-$60 depending on experience and area of specialty. Part-Time or Full-Time equivalent hours available.
Counsel and facilitate women, newborns and their families through pregnancy, labour and the postpartum period.
Duties
- Attend to the physical, mental and emotional health of mothers and newborns before, during and after delivery
- Provide prenatal and postnatal education
- Examine and monitor patients during pregnancy
- Assist the patient in creating birth plans
- Assess progress and recognise warning signs of abnormal and potentially abnormal pregnancies
- Ensure the health and well-being of the newborn and mother during delivery
- Perform gynaecological exams and other clinical examinations and screenings
- Explain and demonstrate breastfeeding techniques
- Weigh and measure newborns
- Assist surgeons and physicians in caring for the mother during complicated births
- Perform deliveries and assist caesareans
- Coach mother through the birthing process
- Prepare for birthing
- Assist parents to cope with miscarriage, termination, stillbirth and neonatal death
- Arrange prenatal planning and care for mothers
- Monitor, record and report symptoms or changes in patient’s conditions
- Maintain accurate patient records
- Administer medication and treatments to patients
- Observe for reactions or side effects
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care for the patient
- Provide education to patient and families
- Discharge and admit patients
- Supervise, coordinate and work in consultation with other health care members
- Minimum 1-year recent clinical experience*
- Work rights in Australia
- Current Registered Midwife AHPRA Registration
- Current Criminal Record Check (can easily be applied for)
- Current Working with Children Check (can easily be applied for)
- Full immunisation history
- Ability to work in an intense, concentrated environment
- Calm and cool-headed with a positive attitude
- Good leadership skills
- Strong observational skills
- Great communication skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Compassion and caring for patients
- Ability to work well independently or in a team
- Commitment to quality patient care
- A resume to send with your application
Sydney
- Campbelltown, 2560
- Camperdown, 2050
- Frenchs Forest, 2086
- Hurstville, 2220
- North Sydney, 2060
- Randwick, 2031
- St Leonards, 2065
- Dubbo, 2830
- Glen Innes, 2370
- Tamworth, 2340 (must have RN & RM registration)
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Network Nursing Agency – Who we are
Established in 1997 – Network Nursing Agency specialises in supplying Registered Nurses to General Wards, Intensive Care Units, Mental Health, Theatres, Aged Care, and Palliative Care to Private and Public Hospital. We also offer Nurses, AINs, and Carers to Hospitals, Aged Care Homes and Private Clients in their homes. Network Nursing Agency is one of the largest suppliers of facilitators to Universities throughout Australia.
Network Nursing Agency promotes a respectful and supportive environment for all our staff. We recognise our amazing staff have helped us become the successful nursing agency we are today. NNA consistently works towards maintaining a culture of inclusiveness that encourages and supports all people to achieve their best. We believe having a diversity of office staff and nurses contributes to us providing the best quality care for all patients in every healthcare setting.
If you would like to learn more about Network Nursing Agency, we encourage you to visit our website, https://www.nursing-agency.com.au/.
Additional Keywords: Midwifery, Midwives, RM, Certified Nurse-Midwife, CNM, Baby, Babies
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