Clinical Midwife Specialist Lactation Maternity Service
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Employment Type:Permanent Full Time or Part time
Position Classification:Clinical Midwife Specialist Grade 2
Location: Nepean Hospital
Remuneration: $58.82 - $60.75 per hour
Hours Per Week:Up to 38
Requisition ID:REQ651924
Applications close:07/05/2026
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About Us
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is an exceptional environment to advance your career while enhancing your skills and expertise. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry we deliver a comprehensive range of public health services across the Nepean Blue Mountains and Lithgow Regions.
Nepean Hospital is a teaching hospital that provides tertiary referral services in emergency care coronary care diagnostics gynaecology paediatric neonatal intensive care/ICU maternity mental health rehabilitation and surgery. The Nepean Campus has recently experienced tremendous growth and aims to support communities within and outside of Sydneys western suburbs providing world-class clinical facilities services and care.
Nepean Hospital is seeking an experienced and passionate Clinical Midwife Specialist (CMS) Lactation to provide expert clinical leadership within the Maternity Service.
This role is pivotal in promoting supporting and embedding best-practice infant feeding education and lactation support across Antenatal Postnatal and Neonatal care settings. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to improve breastfeeding outcomes and enhance the experience of women babies and families.
The role is to provide highquality lactation services within a supportive multidisciplinary team environmen deliver individualised womancentred breastfeeding support exercising extended clinical autonomy and decisionmaking within a therapeutic environment provide direct clinical care when required to support women and families maintain safe service delivery and respond to clinical priorities across the maternity service. You will work collaboratively within the team acting as an advocate for women and families and as a role model resource and mentor to undergraduate and qualified health professionals including nursing midwifery and medical staff ensure a high standard of care for women and their families through the implementation and ongoing maintenance of policies standards and clinical practice guidelines and procedures and participate in and facilitate the development implementation and evaluation of policies clinical practice guidelines and procedures relating to lactation and infant feeding.
Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees
- Accrued Day Off (ADO) for Full Time Employees
- Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
- Novated Leasing
- Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
- Fitness Passport
NBMLHD is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment which reflects the community we serve. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people LGBTIQA Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) people neurodiverse individuals and people with disabilities to apply.
NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information please click here Child Safe Standards
For assistance with applying through the NSW Health Career Portal please click here.
What you will bring to the role
- Current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a Registered Midwife or Registered Nurse/Midwife with relevant postregistration qualifications and at least three (3) years fulltime equivalent experience working in the clinical area of the specified postgraduate qualification or such other qualifications or equivalent experience deemed appropriate.
- Current International BoardCertified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) certification or actively working towards IBCLC certification with a demonstrated willingness and commitment to maintaining IBCLC certification including meeting ongoing professional development and recertification requirements.
- Demonstrated clinical knowledge and recent clinical experience in midwifery care including the assessment and management of complex breastfeeding and lactation issues for women and babies within a multidisciplinary healthcare setting.
- Demonstrated application of evidencebased practice and critical thinking to advocate for and implement individualised womancentred care with a strong commitment to continuous quality improvement service development and risk management.
- Demonstrated ability to provide safe highquality midwifery care in accordance with relevant legislation organisational policies procedures and clinical practice guidelines with accountability for professional practice.
- Highly developed written verbal and digital communication skills including effective use of information technology with the ability to build rapport and communicate clearly respectfully and professionally with women families and members of the multidisciplinary team.
- Demonstrated ability to supervise delegate and negotiate with others to deliver highquality midwifery care show leadership in clinical practice and positively contribute to change management initiatives that improve care delivery and outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to provide high quality breastfeeding support while managing workload effectively upholding professional values and maintaining clinical competence and accountability in lactation and breastfeeding practice.
Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa.
Need more information
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