Midwife

**Requisition ID**: 391719

**Position Number**: 880-715101063M096-16

**Posting End Date**:November 11, 2025

**Employer**:**Southern Health-Santé Sud

**Site**:_ _Community Health Services - Winkler

**Union**: MGEU

**Department/Unit**: Primary Care/Midwifery

**Work Location**:Community Health Services - Winkler

**City**: Winkler

**Hiring Status**: Permanent

**FTE**: 1.0

**Employment arrangement**:In Person

**Daily hours worked**: 8.0

**Anticipated shift**: Days; Evenings; Nights; Weekends

**Annual base hours**:As per Collective Agreement

**Anticipated Start Date**:11/24/2025

**Salary**: As per MGEU Prof Tech Collective Agreement

Find your rewarding career in a vibrant and diverse community within Southern Health-Santé Sud. Our organization is privileged to provide care for people at every point in their lives.

Partnering with our communities, we provide safe, accessible and sustainable people-centered health care. We are proud to work in collaboration with all our partners within and throughout our diverse region: seven First Nations Communities, Francophone, Métis, Mennonite and Hutterite communities as well as a growing number of immigrants from all over the world.

Be part of the Southern Health-Santé Sud team, who is rooted in what matters most. Join a region that offers a lifestyle like no other - a safe, peaceful, beautiful, fulfilling life for you and your family.
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Position Overview**:

- 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 who are accepted into care 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/primary care to meet this need for the client and her family.
- The incumbent exercises 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.
- **Experience**:

- Not Applicable
- **Education (Degree/Diploma/Certificate)**:

- Graduate of an educational program approved by the College of Midwives of Manitoba (CMM).

**Certification/Licensure/Registration**:

- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Current Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP) certification with intubation.
- Active/eligible registration with the College of Midwives of Manitoba.

**Qualifications and Skills**:

- Knowledge of the Midwifery Model of Practice and Standards.
- Demonstrated excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated organizational skills.
- Demonstrated ability to multi task 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.
- Good work and attendance record.
- Requires a valid Class 5 driver’s license, an all‐purpose insured vehicle and liability insurance of at least $1,000,000.00.

**Physical Requirements**:

- Demonstrated ability to meet the physical and mental demands of the job.
- No hazardous or significantly unpleasant conditions.-
Applicants may request reasonable accommodation related to the materials or activities used throughout the selection process.

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