Hutt Valley - Registered Midwives

Nau mai, haere mai ki Te Whatu Ora – Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley District

Location:   Hutt Valley Hospital -Lower Hutt

Service:     Women and Children

Contract:   Permanent / fixed term, full time / part time - do indicate in your covering letter

Salary:     NZNO  $79,261– 103,535 and MERAS $ 76,235 - $100,862  based on experience

                 (SECA increase pending) - pro rata for part time                  

                  Community Midwife scale: $83,677 - $115,715 Minimum 2 years experience

Kōrero mō te tūranga – About the role

The Registered Midwife role is a rostered and rotating role which allows midwives to work across the full scope of midwifery practice. Our midwives provide care for primary birthing people as well as those with more complex needs, to antenatal and postnatal people and their babies. This allows us to offer many options for career development and a superior quality of care for our pregnant people, their babies and whanau in our community. 

Hutt Maternity is a patient focused practice providing personalised, state-of-the-art medical care to pregnant people. On average five babies are born in the Hutt Valley every day and we provide primary and secondary maternity care for about 1800 pregnant people a year in the Hutt Valley.

There is the opportunity to apply to work in the Maternity Assessment Unit on a permanent contract. In the MAU space, you will assess pregnant people in an acute setting, work with pregnant people who are seeing the Secondary Care Obstetric service and provide education to pregnant people related to specific needs they may have. 

The Community Midwifery Team are seeking part time, confident & experienced midwives, providing antenatal and postnatal care and working across a variety of settings, including in the community, clinics, Birthing Suite and postnatal wards.  This role is across the district which includes Wellington, Porirua and Hutt Valley.

The Community Midwifery Team provides antenatal and postnatal midwifery care in any setting to approximately 1200 māmā/parents, pēpi and whanau across the wider Wellington Region per year, including the home and hospital:

• For primary women who cannot find community based LMCs
• For secondary women requiring hospital midwifery services
• For women under tertiary care who have transferred from another District and are less than 6 weeks postnatal and have a baby in the Neo Natal Unit.

Mō tō mātou rōpū – About our team

Our midwifery unit functions much like an extended family, with work-life balance being extremely important to all of our staff. We are committed to providing a competitive schedule that most private and public organisations are unable to offer.

Moū – About you

• Have the ability to work well in an integrated team
• Are organised with good time management 
• Have a strong pregnant people/whanau (family) centred philosophy
• Are experienced and proactive with breastfeeding assistance and support
• Have the ability to work collaboratively with all health professionals to support excellence in maternity care
• Understands the importance of liaising with all stakeholders in the hospital and community environment
• Have strong interpersonal communication skills
• Are adaptable to change
• Are willing and able to perform some non-midwifery duties to ensure the efficiency and seamless management of the unit.

Some new initiatives taking place include:

Developmental opportunities for all members of the team that are individualised depending on need and specific areas of interest

Bespoke orientation and practice support

Two clinical coaches to walk alongside new and less experience midwives

Opportunities to expand your midwifery skills across the scope of practice and in different areas i.e. theatre, outpatient clinic and community

Quality and Leadership Program (QLP)

Flexible shift patterns allowing quality work life balance

If you share our commitment to innovative and personalised care, we’d love to talk with you!

E pā ana ki a tatou – About us

Here at the Capital & Coast and Hutt Valley District, we embrace diversity and welcome applications from all people, including all gender identities, ages, ethnicity, sexual orientations, disability and religions. A workforce that is diverse and inclusive means that we are better positioned to understand and serve our community.

Capital & Coast and Hutt Valley District are pro-equity health organisation, with a particular focus on Māori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.

To find out more about us click on the following link:

Capital and Coast

Hutt Valley

Mental Health, Addiction and Intellectual Disability Service 

Me pēhea te tuku tono - How to apply

Click the apply now button to send your application directly to us. For further information on this role please email Deb.Brodie@TewhatuOra.govt.nz and indicate the job title and vacancy number in the subject line.

Please note, candidates will be reviewed once the role closes.

Ma tini, ma mano, ka rapa te whai

By joining together we will succeed