Title:  2026 PMCV Graduate Midwifery Program

2026 Graduate Midwifery Program

• Ongoing, part-time opportunities available: 64 hours per fortnight
• Excellent graduate-to-educator ratios
• Support from a friendly, dedicated team

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 

Our Graduate Midwifery and Nursing Program is progressive, responsive and innovative. We use the latest evidence to develop our program study days together with regular feedback from our graduates.

We support and facilitate the development of a well prepared, high quality, safe midwifery and nursing workforce committed to improving health outcomes.

We have 2 pathways for Midwifery graduates in 2026 including:

• Blended Nursing / Midwifery Stream: 18 months total (12 months midwifery and 6 months nursing)
• Pure Midwifery Stream: 12 months in midwifery

For more information on rotations, please visit our website.

Our Learning and Teaching team and clinical staff provide a supportive environment that encourages the development of clinical skills, reflective practice and a sense of professional identity and accountability.

As a graduate you will be a key participant and contributor to change and innovation and we invite you to join us for an exciting year and future with Eastern Health.

About You
To be successful in this role you will possess:

• Highly developed interpersonal skills
• A strong commitment to high quality care
• The ability to work as part of a diverse team
• Excellent communication and organisational skills

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 and influenza, prior to commencing employment.

What We Offer

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, and the following:

• Diverse and engaging career opportunities
• Excellent graduate-to-educator ratios. Friendly and 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 you 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.

How to Apply

Please upload the following:

• Graduate Program Application Form - Please download the form, and upload the completed form to the "CV" field. Your CV is not required.
• Official academic transcript with grading key - Digital and non-certified version are accepted. If you transferred credits from another institution / course toward your current nursing / midwifery degree, please submit the transcripts from those institution(s). Transcripts for unrelated degrees (e.g. Education) are not required. Please upload transcripts to the "Additional Documents" field.
• 2 x recent, summative, midwifery placement appraisals (also known as "Clinical Assessment Tools", "AMSAT", or "placement feedback"). These two placement appraisals are to be uploaded to the "Additional Documents" field.
  • Please ensure that the pages contain:
    • the placement location
    • placement type
    • dates
    • scoring
    • feedback
    • assessor signature
• Evidence of COVID vaccinations
• Evidence of most recent flu vaccine
• Cover letters and CVs are not required.

For more information on how to apply, please visit our website.

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.
• We do not accept recruitment agency applications.

For the full position description, please click here.

Contact Person: Transition-to-Practice Administrative Team

Contact Number: (03) 9895 3372 

Contact Email: ttp.admin@easternhealth.org.au

Our Values in Action:

Respect for all | Safe always | Partnering in care | Learning and improving every day