If your idea of a perfect work life balance is being part of a small community with the backdrop of the spectacular West Coast, then this is the role for you!

Your typical day will be spent providing antenatal and postnatal care to the wāhine of the Buller region and you will be present at homebirths or births in our primary birthing unit at Kawatiri, Buller Hospital and the facilities when the new Buller Hospital and Health Centre is built.

Outside of work, you will have access to some of the Aotearoa s best kept scenic secrets, with the Buller especially popular for tramping, rafting, canoeing and many other outdoor pursuits. As well as low cost housing, daily flights from Westport to Wellington and Queenstown.

Although you will be based in the community, you will be provided with access to education, training and support from the team at Te Nikau and collegially supported by your central and southern colleagues providing LMC care.

Working here you will be eligible to access some great benefits:

• Will be provided with a current caseload
•  A sustainability package per woman under your care
• All women qualify for remote rural mileage
• Eligible for support via the NZ College of Midwives Rural Midwifery Recruitment and  Retention Service (RMRRS) including nine days Locum cover per year and extra locum days paid by WCDHB.
  

About you:

• NZ Midwifery Registration and a current practicing certificate
• A new Graduate Midwife will be considered.
• Be vaccinated for COVID-19 under the Governments Mandate
  
  

Apply online, or to find out more information, please contact Dawn Kremers on 03 7697803 or Dawn.Kremers@wcdhb.health.nz

To find out about the recruitment process please contact Tracey Sutherland Recruitment Partner on Tracey.Sutherland@cdhb.health.nz

The role that you are applying for is one that may only be performed by a person who has been vaccinated against Covid-19.  It is therefore a condition of this application that you are vaccinated against Covid-19.  As a person working in the health and disability sector you will come into contact with a large number of people, some of whom may be vulnerable.  Without a vaccine, there is the risk that you may contract Covid-19.  The requirement to be vaccinated is to keep you safe and also to endeavour to protect others against the potential transmission of Covid-19 as a result of you contracting it in the course of your employment.