Registered Nurse/Student Midwife Program

Registered Nurse/Student Midwifery Program – Midland Public Hospital

Are you a Registered Nurse, with an interest in providing compassionate maternity care?

In partnership with the University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA), St John of God Health Care offers the Student Midwife Employed Program, enabling you to complete the Graduate Diploma of Midwifery while being employed as a Registered Nurse/ Student Midwife. As one of the largest health care providers, we have a sole focus on patient care and will invest our resources being YOU! We will support you to meet the clinical requirements of the qualification through regular, rostered, paid shifts,  building skills and confidence to become the midwife you want to be.

You will be offered employment on a fixed term part-time basis, working as a Registered Nurse/Student Midwife, with access to paid study leave. While a place on the University of Notre Dame Australia Graduate Diploma in Midwifery course is guaranteed for successful candidates, the enrolment into the course and payment of course fees is arranged directly with the university and is the responsibility of the participant.

St John of God Midland Public Hospital our maternity unit features a 24-bed ward and five modern birth suites. As one of the busiest hospitals in the region, St John of God Midland Public Hospital offers a dynamic, fast-paced environment with growing demand for public maternity services. This means ongoing opportunities for professional development, whether you’re looking to enhance your clinical practice or grow into leadership roles.

Our midwives are dedicated to providing all aspects of pregnancy, birth and postnatal care in our antenatal clinics and services, on our maternity wards and in birth suites, in addition to care for our babies in our special care nurseries.

If you have a keen interest in a supported career pathway into midwifery, this is the opportunity that you have been waiting for!

In addition to the numerous benefits of working at one of Australia's leading private health providers, we offer the following under this employed model:

• A diverse range of clinical rotations in our maternity units

• Rostered shifts in a maternity setting that count towards your clinical placement hours for the post-graduate course

• Paid supernumerary rotations in birth suite and neonates

• Intensive preceptor and clinical educator support, in addition to UNDA facilitator support

• An opportunity for a pathway into our Graduate Midwife Program on completion of your qualification

• Opportunity to apply for a scholarship to cover course fess, for eligible applicants

• Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits, increase your take home pay each fortnight

• Employee discounts on Private Health Insurance

• Access to a range of Lifestyle, Health & Wellbeing rewards and discounts

• Free on-site parking

• Access to fitness and wellbeing benefits through Fitness Passport

The Requirements:

• Required to be enrolled or eligible to enrol in the February 2027 intake of the Graduate Diploma of Midwifery at the University of Notre Dame Australia

• Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (AHPRA)

• At least one year post graduate experience as a Registered Nurse

• Must be eligible to work in Australia

• It is an expectation that you will remain employed as a Registered Midwife at St John of God Health Care for 12 months post completion of qualification

For program enquires please contact Lauren Robertson, Early Career Pathways Coordinator on (08) 6116 0518

Applications close 11pm 21st September 2026

At St John of God Health Care, we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

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