About us:

Rural and Remote Services comprise rural health services located at Tully, Innisfail, Babinda, Yarrabah, Atherton, Mareeba and Mossman, and remote primary health services at located at Cow Bay, Dimbulah, Chillagoe, Forsayth, Georgetown and Croydon. 

Innisfail is the southern section of Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service (CHHHS), 88km south of Cairns and approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes by road. The Cassowary Hub boundaries for maternity services extend from Kennedy in the South of Deeral in the North. Innisfail Hospital is the largest hospital within Cassowary Hub which encompasses both Babinda Multipurpose Health Service and Tully Hospital. 

The aim of the Cassowary Hub Maternity Service is to empower women to birth locally with the provision of safe and appropriate gold standard of midwifery care services for women in the rural geographical location of Cassowary Hub, North Queensland. 

Maternity has 3 allocated (2 funded) beds, a consult room and 2 birthing suits, providing public obstetric care to women in the Cassowary Hub community. The maternity unit for birthing and inpatient care is currently partially co-located with Ward 2 at Innisfail Hospital.

Cassowary Hub Maternity also offers Shared Care – between local General Practitioners and the hospitals. The obstetric service has a 24-hour, 7 day a week operating theatre service to support emergency and elective lower uterine segment caesarean sections if required.

We're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by providing high quality acute health care services.

About your role:

• Promote cooperation, teamwork and understanding in undertaking generalist and/or specialist midwifery practices for effective health outcomes.
• Practice collaboratively and provide clinical leadership within the interdisciplinary health care team to promote the safety, security and personal integrity of individuals and groups.
• Provide clinical leadership for professional and clinical practice, education and research in conjunction with the Midwife Grade 7 and Midwife Grade 6.2.
• Use effective communication skills to influence and convince others in a mature, confident manner to achieve positive client outcomes, including providing informant and/or advice on clinical issues within the RM scope of practice.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

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What we offer:

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health service offer a number of workplace benefits. Besides attractive remuneration, generous superannuation, salary packaging and career development opportunities, we value a healthy work/life balance that allows you take advantage of the sunshine, hiking tracks, swimming spots, reef and rainforest. 

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