Midwife / Sage-femme

**Requisition ID**: 336295

**Position Number**: 880-715101063M096-05

**Competition #**: AH-23-041

**Posting End Date**: May 11, 2023

**City**: Steinbach

**Site**: Southern Health-Santé Sud

**Work Location**: Bethesda Primary Care Centre

**Department / Unit**: Midwifery Services

**Job Stream**: Clinical

**Union**: MGEU Prof Tech

**Anticipated Start Date - End Date**: As mutually agreed - 03/03/2024

**Reason for Term**:Maternity Leave

**FTE**: 0.50

**Anticipated Shift**: Days/Evenings/Nights/Weekends

**Daily Hours Worked**: Various hour shifts

**Salary: A**s per MGEU Prof Tech Collective Agreement
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**Position Summary**:
The Midwife is an autonomous practitioner who provides safe, flexible, maternity care to women in a variety of settings such as the client’s home, in community clinics and in hospitals. The role of the midwife is to be the primary care provider to women and their newborn during the childbearing year. The midwife works collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and will provide service delivery in accordance with policies and procedures of Southern Health-Santé Sud (SH-SS), the Midwifery Model of Practice and Standards of the College of Midwives of Manitoba (CMM). Midwifery care is provided to the women and her newborn until six weeks postpartum. The midwife ensures continuity of access to care beyond the childbearing year by referring to public health that will meet this need for the client and her family.

The incumbent will exercise the appropriate level of initiative and independent judgment in determining work priorities, work methods to be employed and action to be taken on unusual matters. The position functions in a manner that is consistent with the mission, vision and values; and the policies of Southern Health-Santé Sud.

**Qualifications**:

- Graduate of an educational program approved by the College of Midwives of Manitoba (CMM)
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
- Current Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP) certification with intubation
- Active/eligible registration with the College of Midwives of Manitoba
- Knowledge of the Midwifery Model of Practice and Standards
- Demonstrated excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated organizational skills
- Demonstrated ability to multitask and function independently
- Demonstrated ability to maintain positive working relationships and function effectively as a member of an interdisciplinary team
- Demonstrated ability to initiate, self‐motivate and flexibility to meet the demands of the position
- Demonstrated ability to work flexible hours scheduled according to client needs
- Given the cultural diversity of our region, the ability to respect and promote a culturally diverse population is required
- Proficiency of both official languages is essential for target and designated bilingual positions
- Demonstrated ability to respect confidentiality including paper, electronic formats and other mediums
- Demonstrated ability to meet the physical and mental demands of the job
- Good work and attendance record

**Conditions of Employment**:

- Completes and maintains a satisfactory Criminal Record Check, Vulnerable Sector Search, Adult Abuse Registry Check and Child Abuse Registry Check, as appropriate.
- All Health Care workers are required to be immunized as a condition of employment in accordance with Southern Health-Santé Sud policy.
- Requires a valid Class 5 driver’s license, an all-purpose insured vehicle and liability insurance of at least $1,000,000.00

This term position may end earlier as outlined in your collective agreement.
- 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._