Clinical Midwife Consultant – Lead Change Across Maternity Services Use your expertise to strengthen screening, prevention, clinical pathways and support for pregnant people across Metro South Health About This Role Your new role:

Role Join Metro South Health as a Clinical Midwife Consultant and play a key role in strengthening preventive health care and improving outcomes for pregnant people and their children. Working as part of the Supporting Healthier Pregnancies Initiative, you will provide expert midwifery leadership and collaborate with maternity services, clinicians and key stakeholders to embed sustainable improvements across antenatal care. You will:

- Provide advanced clinical and professional leadership to support the implementation of preventive health care, recommended screening and effective pathways to ongoing support across Metro South Health maternity services.
- Work collaboratively with the Office of the Chief Midwife Officer, MSH clinicians and multidisciplinary stakeholders to embed contemporary, evidence-based antenatal practices and strengthen clinical triage and referral pathways.
- Contribute to initiatives that address barriers to preventive health care, including screening for vulnerable women, chronic disease and future health risks, as well as strengthening smoking and vaping cessation support during pregnancy.
- Build and maintain effective networks across government, non-government and consumer stakeholders while providing expert advice on clinical practice, policy, service development, education and research.

About You We are looking for an experienced and passionate midwife who can bring advanced clinical expertise, strong leadership and a commitment to improving health outcomes for women,



families and communities. You have:

- Demonstrated advanced clinical and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to provide protected, evidence-based and individualised woman-centred midwifery care.
- Proven ability to lead clinical practice improvement, service redesign, quality initiatives and the implementation of contemporary midwifery-led models of care.
- Highly developed communication, collaboration, negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build productive relationships across multidisciplinary, government, non-government and consumer groups.
- A strong commitment to culturally safe practice, health equity, education, research and workforce development, with the ability to translate evidence into improved midwifery practice and outcomes.

What We Can Offer You

- We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
- We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
- We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
- You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages,



salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Unit Profile The Metro South Health (MSH) Executive Director Nursing and Midwifery (EDNM) Division provides overarching governance, leadership, strategic support and guidance for the Nursing and Midwifery professions across the health service. The EDNM Division is responsible for creating and delivering the MSH Nursing and Midwifery Strategy and associated Workforce, Education and Research priorities in alignment with the MSH Strategic Plan. INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together .

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

📌 Clinical Midwifery Consultant - Supporting Healthier Pregnancy Initiative (South Brisbane)
🏢 Metro South Health
📍 South Brisbane