Employment Type: Permanent Full Time / Part Time, up 38 hours per week
Location: Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital
Position Classification: Registered Midwife
Remuneration: $36.39 - $51.09 per hour
Requisition ID: REQ599992
Application Close Date: 31/08/2025
Interview Date Range: 03/09/2025 – 10/09/2025
Contact Details: Ronia Awick – (02) 9722 7826 | Ronia.Awick@health.nsw.gov.au

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Bankstown Hospital is seeking a passionate and skilled Registered Midwife to join our growing Birthing Unit team. Our unit provides care for women from low-risk pregnancies to those with complex health needs. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where your expertise will support women through one of life’s most transformative experiences.
As part of South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD), you’ll contribute to our vision of Leading Care, Healthier Communities. You’ll work alongside experienced midwives, obstetricians, and multidisciplinary teams in a supportive, state-of-the-art facility. Whether you’re assisting with water births, providing antenatal education, or delivering compassionate postnatal care, your role will be vital in promoting safe, culturally responsive, and evidence-based maternity care.

TRANSFORMING YOUR EXPERIENCE

Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.

TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR PERMANENT APPOINTMENT TO A POSITION IN NSW HEALTH, YOU MUST HAVE AN AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP OR PERMANENT AUSTRALIAN RESIDENCY.

At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of ️ Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander ️ background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.
SWSLHD is committed to driving a child safe culture that upholds children and young people’s rights. We strive to ensure children and young people feel safe, supported and included in their care. Existing staff of SWSLHD and those seeking employment are required to take the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people seriously while taking action to keep them safe from harm and abuse.
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The midwife is a responsible and accountable professional who works in partnership with women to give the necessary support, care and advice during pregnancy, labour and the postpartum period, to conduct births on the midwife’s own responsibility and to provide care for the newborn and the infant.
This position may entail rotating through various clinical areas such as, Birthing Unit, Post/Antenatal Ward, Special Care Nursery and Antenatal Clinic