Midwife

**Requisition ID**: 347935

**Position Number**: 20002360

**Posting End Date**: November 10, 2023

**City**: Winnipeg

**Site**: WRHA Community Health Services

**Work Location**: WRHA Community Health Services

**Department / Unit**: Midwifery Services

**Job Stream**: Clinical

**Union**: MAHCP-WCHREOApr

**Anticipated Start Date**: ASAP

**FTE**: 0.50

**Anticipated Shift**: Days;Evenings;Nights;Weekends;On Call

**Daily Hours Worked**: 4.00

**Annual Base Hours**: 2080

**Salary**:$51.951, $54.558, $57.165, $59.772, $62.376

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**Position Overview**:
The main function of the midwife is to be the primary care provider to women during the childbearing year within a multidisciplinary team. All midwifery services provided are delivered in accordance with the Midwifery Model of Practice and the Standards of the College of Midwives of Manitoba. Throughout all main functions, the WRHA midwife maintains communication and positive working relationships with community and hospital staff, public health and emergency medical services. She/he works cooperatively within a practice group of midwives to provide equitable on-call coverage. The midwife involves herself/himself in professional activities to enhance competency and midwifery services.

**Experience**:

- Recent midwifery practice experience must meet the College of Midwives of Manitoba’s Standards for Currency of Practice Required for Initial/Maintaining Registration as a Practicing Midwife.
- Experience working with multicultural and disadvantaged populations is preferred.

**Education (Degree/Diploma/Certificate)**:

- Graduate of an educational program approved by the College of Midwives of Manitoba.
- Current Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and neonatal resuscitation certification (NRP) with intubation required.

**Certification/Licensure/Registration**:

- Possession of a valid Manitoba Class 5 driver’s license.
- Each midwife must be eligible for liability insurance coverage purchased by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA).

**Qualifications and Skills**:

- Ability to function as a member of an interdisciplinary team is required.

**Physical Requirements**:

- Must be physically capable of performing duties related to the position under varying weather and environmental conditions. This position requires significant lifting and carrying of a variety of clinical and birth equipment as well as the ability to climb stairs with this equipment (i.e. in buildings without elevators).
- Owns or has access to a dependable vehicle that is available for use at all times.

Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions across the WRHA legal entity that combine to equal more than 1.0 EFT. The WRHA legal entity includes Churchill Health Centre, Deer Lodge Centre, Grace Hospital, Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg, Pan Am Clinic, River Park Gardens, Victoria General Hospital, WRHA corporate programs, and WRHA community health services.