Midwife - Part-Time

Midwife/LMC– Pacific Peoples

• Kahu Taurima – Well Child development. 
• Mothers, babies, and whanau.
• Leading in Pasifika wellbeing outcomes.
• Advance your career in a well-supported role.

About the role 

Are you passionate about working with pregnant mothers and newborns? The Fono is expanding its range of child-centric services and is looking for a midwife to join the newest Maternity and Early Years initiative, Kahu Taurima. 

Kahu Taurima incorporates our existing integrated model of care with specialised services, ensuring every Pacific mother and child feels empowered. We ensure top-tier maternity care is simple, personalised and culturally safe. 

If you're ready to embark on a journey to redefine Pasifika maternal and infant care, we invite you to apply.

About you

The successful applicant will show dedication to creating new approaches. You will work alongside our Kahu Taurima team to help develop and grow the service. 

What you will need for this position is: 

• To be a New Zealand Registered Midwife. 
• Must hold a current Annual Practicing Certificate and have evidence of recent practice. 
• Must have no conditions, issued by the Midwifery Council of NZ. 
• 5+ Years Experience as an LMC
• Have a sound understanding of Pacific culture and values. 
• Experience working in a Pacific environment may be an advantage. 
• Experience working with complicated pregnancies. 
• Full NZ driver’s license.
• Spoken and written fluency in English

About us

A message from The Fono’s CEO - Tevita Funaki

Because you’re thinking about a career with The Fono Trust let me tell you why that could be a great idea.  When you become part of The Fono family you are sharing over 30 years of heritage as the Pacific organisation proven to have the power to generate substantial improvements for Pacific peoples in health and wellbeing right across Auckland.

As an employee you become an important part of FonoCare – our unique Integrated Model of Care.  It is The Fono’s lifeforce and guides us all in our commitment to equity in outcomes.  What our Integrated Model of Care can achieve inspires us every day when we connect with the communities and families we serve. Seeing how The Fono has grown through innovative thinking that doesn’t accept it can’t be done - It can, and we’ve proved it time and time again.  Taking personal inspiration from the past and what our people at The Fono are achieving every day through our services.

FonoCare - The Fono Integrated model of Care is an expanding range of high-quality primary health, mental health, dental services, public health, health support, whanau ora, social services -- including the Feleoko family support/food bank to Pasifika and all who need our care.  The Fono also has the Oceania Career Academy as a service providing, as a NZQA Category One tertiary institution, highly successful training, and transitions to employment. 

We lead the way in developing partnerships with the community and other providers.  The term "fono" in our name is particularly suitable for our identity as its meaning reflects meetings between people. And that’s what we offer the people we serve and the people who join The Fono family as employees or contractors. With links into all areas of Pasifika community life we have a unique ability to make our high quality, affordable health, and social services conveniently available across our vibrant and multicultural city from eight locations and through outreach services. For more on The Fono see www.thefono.org

 Find out more / apply:

For an application form, job description or further details text KTM to 0210 244 8929 with your email or respond to this advertisement and send your details – [email protected] putting KTM in the subject line.