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Supporting Families When It Matters Most — Clinical Midwife, Collaborative Care

Join the Collaborative Care team at Flinders Medical Centre, one of South Australia's leading tertiary referral hospitals, where your midwifery expertise will directly support women and families navigating high-risk pregnancies. If you're an experienced midwife looking for clinical depth, a committed multidisciplinary team, and a role that offers real work-life balance, this is where your career belongs.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Midwifery Unit Manager, in this role, you'll provide specialist midwifery care to women and birthing people with complex obstetric and medical needs, working collaboratively across a multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, evidence-based care from antenatal assessment through to postnatal support. Duties for the role will include:

• Provide proficient, person centred, clinical nursing/midwifery care and/or individual case management to patients/clients in a defined clinical area,
• Monitoring patient/client care plans to ensure appropriate care outcomes are achieved on a daily basis,
• Oversee the provision of nursing/midwifery care within a team/unit,
• Assists and supports the Midwife Unit Manager or equivalent in management, clinical, and education activities,
• Plan and coordinate services including those from other disciplines

About you:

• Registered or eligible for registration as a Midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate,
• Demonstrated commitment to providing consumer/client and family centred care,
• Effective communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills,
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team,
• Demonstrated competence in midwifery practice in accordance with the relevant standards,
• Experience in the leadership and direction of student nurses, enrolled nurses and less experienced registered nurses

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Helen Pollard, Midwife Manager, (08) 8204 4367, Helen.Pollard@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 4 October 2026

Attachments:

• Clinical Midwife - Complex Maternity Care- Role Description
• Australian applicant guidelines
• International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
• The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.  Job ref: 951069