Title:  Associate Midwifery Manager - Birthing Suite

Associate Midwifery Manager - Birthing Suite

• Permanent Part Time 

• Box Hill Hospital 

• Providing Maternity Care in AMM position 

Eastern Health 

Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community. 

Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan – which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference. 

About the role 

AMM opportunities exist within our Birthing Unit at Box Hill Hospital.  Our new facilities along with our exceptional staff warmly welcome women and their families during their pregnancy, birthing and postnatal journey.  At Box Hill Hospital you’ll gain and consolidate knowledge and skills while working in a Birthing Suite AMM position.  Box Hill Hospital births more than 2,700 babies each year, and our inpatient and outpatient services for new mums include Specialist Maternity Services, Lactation Support Unit, Women’s Health Physiotherapy, and a Perinatal Mental Health Service.    

Our busy maternity unit has 20 Post-natal beds, 6 Birthing rooms with 2 assessment rooms, a Fetal Assessment Clinic, Antenatal Clinic and a 12 cot Special Care Nursery.  Additionally, we proudly support a Midwifery Group Practice model of care.  We have an innovative, collaborative and supportive maternity team, and with our Learning and Teaching unit and Clinical Midwife Consultants we offer a wide range of online and Face-2-Face learning and up-skilling opportunities.  We embrace and support career progression into leadership roles and support our AMM’s to step up into a relieving Unit Manager position when required.  We have a variety of improvement projects currently underway which support Eastern Health’s innovative strategic direction but also the vision for our exceptional maternity unit.  

About you   

 To be successful in this role you need to have:    

• Current valid midwifery registration with AHPRA   

• Level 3 RANZCOG 

• Previous experience in a leadership role within Birthing suite preferred (AMUM) 

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and networking skills  

• A willingness to embrace Eastern Health values and contribute to a positive team culture  

• Excellent patient assessment skills and attention to detail  

• Strong commitment to high quality patient care and consumer engagement  

• Strong time management and organisational skills  

Please refer to the attached position description for further details of the role.  

Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.  An offer of employment is conditional on you providing evidence that you are currently vaccinated against COVID-19 with booster & Influenza, prior to commencing employment.  

What we offer   

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here!   

• Diverse and engaging career opportunities 

• Friendly & supportive team 

• Flexible working hours 

• Salary packaging options 

• Career progression in our teaching hospitals 

Next Steps
Apply online if you feel we are a good match, you have the skills and qualities to make a difference, and are eligible to work in Australia.

We review all applications when we receive them, and we notify unsuccessful candidates.

If you are shortlisted, we will be in touch to arrange an interview, and you must complete a National Police Check (which we will pay for). We will notify unsuccessful candidates.

Good to know:

• We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability – within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
• We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
• As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
• Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
• Advertising may end before the closing date.
• We do not accept recruitment agency application.

Position Description Link