Graduate Midwife Program

Our midwifery program is structured to enable graduates to consolidate their respective knowledge and skills. The Midwifery Graduate Program allows you to get first-hand experience within our Women’s Health Unit (WHU) providing antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care.

General information

The 12-month program is structured to enable both single-degree Midwifery and double degree Midwifery/Nursing graduates to consolidate their respective knowledge and skills. Graduates will rotate through areas of the Women’s Health Unit including the Inpatients ward, Delivery Suite, and the Pregnancy Assessment Unit, Antenatal Clinic and Midwifery Home Care or Special Care Nursery. A three-month rotation within a general medical/surgical ward enables combined-stream graduates to consolidate their nursing knowledge and skills. Supernumary shifts are provided on commencement of all rotations.

To complete this program, graduates must participate in a three day orientation and work 0.6 to 0.8 EFT. Annual leave is accrued and can be taken during your maternity rotations.

Support

Graduate midwives are well supported throughout their program headed by the Clinical Midwifery Educator Graduate Coordinator, with a team of Clinical Midwife Educators and Clinical Support Midwives.

Clinical Support Midwives are rostered onto a morning, day and afternoon shift from Monday to Friday, and a day shift on Saturday, providing support and assistance to graduates during the shift.

Graduates are allocated a preceptor at the commencement of the graduate midwifery program, ensuring each graduate is well supported and has a ‘buddy’ during the program to ask questions to.

Graduates will experience being a part of the multidisciplinary team during the graduate program, working with clinical staff, senior and medical staff, Associate Midwife Unit Managers and the Midwife Unit Manager.

Continued education

• The online Learning Management System provides graduates access to the mandatory training to be completed.
• Five study days are provided throughout the program, plus two midwifery specific professional development days including FSEP and MIST @ Peninsula.
• Education sessions: Practical sessions are provided during the program and run by Clinical Support Midwives, as well as in-services run during your rotations.