Eastern Health offers you two pathways to experience a Transition to Practice Midwifery Program. Read below about options to start your career with us!
Pathways Overview
Pure Midwifery Pathway
This pathway provides you, as a graduate midwife with clinical experience across the full scope of practice in midwifery. A range of opportunities are available for you in areas such as Birth Suite, Post Natal, Special Care Nursery, Fetal Monitoring Unit, Extended Post Natal Care, Lactation Services, and Antenatal Clinic.
Blended Midwifery/Nursing Pathway
This pathway is available you if you have studied a double degree in Nursing and Midwifery. The program is 18-months in duration and provides opportunities in the same midwifery areas as experienced in the Pure Midwifery pathway, plus a 6-months nursing rotation.
Number of positions available
40+
across the two midwifery pathways
Number of births annually
5052
Pure Midwifery Pathway
Intakes & Rotations
- Three intakes per year commencing in January, March and July
- 12-month program experiencing a wide range of midwifery areas
Clinical Areas
- Antenatal Clinic (elective)
- Birthing Suite
- Postnatal
- Special Care Nursery (by Expression of Interest)
Additional midwifery experiences are available in:
- EPC (Extended Postnatal Care)
- Fetal Monitoring
- Lactation
Campuses
- Angliss Hospital, Ferntree Gully
- Box Hill Hospital, Box Hill
Blended Midwifery/Nursing Pathway
Intakes & Rotations
- Three intakes per year commencing in January, March and July
- 18-month program consisting of three 6-month rotations
- Two 6-month rotations in a range of midwifery areas and 6-months in a medical, surgical or sub-acute rotation
- Specialty rotations available by expression of interest
Clinical Areas
Midwifery
- Antenatal Clinic (elective)
- Birthing Suite
- Postnatal
Additional midwifery experience opportunities
- EPC (Extended Postnatal Care)
- Fetal Monitoring
- Lactation
Medical, Surgical or Sub-acute rotation
- Cardiac
- District Nursing
- Day Surgery
- Dialysis
- Emergency
- Endoscopy
- Geriatric Evaluation Management
- Medical
- Neurology/Endocrine
- Oncology
- Paediatrics
- Palliative Care
- Perioperative
- Rehabilitation
- Renal and Vascular
- Residential Aged Care
- Special Care Nursery (by expression of interest)
- Surgical
Campuses
Midwifery rotation
- Angliss Hospital, Ferntree Gully
- Box Hill Hospital, Box Hill
Medical, Surgical or Sub-acute rotation
- Angliss Hospital, Ferntree Gully
- Blackburn Public Surgical Centre, Blackburn
- Box Hill Hospital, Box Hill
- Healesville Hospital, Healesville
- Maroondah Hospital, Ringwood East
- murrenda, Wantirna
- Peter James Centre, Burwood
- Wantirna Health, Wantirna
