Start date negotiable for the right candidate.

This is a locum position to cover a maternity leave but there are vacancies in Fraser Health so a long term position is available.  

The Island Health Department of Midwifery has  full-time opportunities for Registered Midwives to join 42 other midwives practicing in greater Victoria.

Victoria Midwives are currently involved in 32% of the total births in the Capital Region and the home birth rate is approximately 15%. Midwives have admitting privileges at the Victoria General Hospital, a medium sized tertiary care center for Vancouver Island, which has approximately 3,000 deliveries per year. 

The GEO 4 Department of Midwifery is well-integrated within the Island Health medical staff structure. Midwives are active members of the multi-disciplinary perinatal care teams and have been instrumental in affecting how maternity care services are delivered in the region. 

Midwives in B.C. are required to practice in both the home and hospital settings.  They are independent practitioners with their own practices in the community.

The successful applicants must be eligible to obtain full licensure with the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives and demonstrate suitable experience and training.

 Midwives who self-identify as IBPOC are strongly encouraged to apply. If you choose to disclose that you self-identify as IBPOC, this may be indicated in your cover letter.

We are looking to fill multiple positions with flexibility on team sizes, part time or full time and scope of practice. We have excellent administrative support and a beautiful space to welcome midwives and the clients we serve!

Thank you for having a look at our job posting attached below. We look forward to hearing from you. Successful candidates will apply for, and obtain privileges at Victoria General Hospital. There are several posting for privileges now up here: https://medicalstaff.islandhealth.ca/node/6256

Application for privileges deadline is Nov 8, 2023.

The Cook Street Community Midwives in Victoria, BC are seeking 1-2 locum midwives for flexible dates starting in May/June 2024 onwards. We are open to considering a short-term (summer 2024 only) and/or a long-term (for 1 year or more) locum, depending on mutual needs and fit. 

Cook Street Community Midwives is an established midwifery practice located in a beautiful heritage building in the heart of Victoria, BC. We are supported by two amazing MOAs and use Accuro EMR for charting. 

We currently practise in a supported solo model with two teams of two. Each midwife books ~4-5 EDDs per month. We cover each other for regular long weekends plus two months off call per year, with additional ad-hoc coverage for sleep relief and other support as needed. We are flexible in trying something new but have found our model has been very sustainable for work life balance.

We anticipate that a long term locum midwife would collect their own, full billings rather than being compensated through locum fees.

Clients electing a hospital birth do so at Victoria General Hospital (VGH). We enjoy collaborative working relationships with our obstetric colleagues. We have many repeat clients and word of mouth referrals, and typically keep a long wait list. 

Although at least one set of locum privileges will be available starting in May/June 2024, we encourage any prospective applicants to consider submitting an application for regular privileges in Island Health’s upcoming midwifery recruitment for VGH, which closes on November 8th, 2024 (https://medicalstaff.islandhealth.ca/node/6256). 

Please direct your questions, CV and letter of interest to cookstmw@gmail.com as soon as possible and no later than November 27th, 2023. Please note that the position(s) may be filled prior to the end of November if there is sufficient interest before then. Please visit our website for more information about our practice: https://www.cookstmidwives.com. 

We look forward to hearing from you!

- RMs Amy Brownhill, Ashley Kruse, Tobi Reid & Brandi Wasyluk

0.75 to Full time locum midwife position with flexible dates from November 2024 to January 2025 in beautiful Victoria, BC. Please see attached posting.

Start time flexible-open to new registrants. 

The Community Birth Program in Surrey is seeking 2 full-time registered midwives to join our team. We are thinking of a soft start as soon as possible and full time by March 2024. Workload is one clinic day per week plus 4 to 5 x24-hr shifts per month and everyone on the team supporting each other with home births.

Compensation will be reviewed with candidates with serious interest. We pay flat rate for call and clinic shifts so that income is predictable.

We invite you to join our team-based practice of midwives, naturopathic physicians, nurse practitioner, obstetricians, lactation consultant and doula collective to provide maternity care to clients in the Surrey/North Delta/White Rock/Langley communities.

Our program has been running since 2012. We are well rooted at our site and midwives have an active role in unit operations and QA. We are grateful for a dedicated call room with a private bathroom and an on-call lounge.

We enjoy a model of care that serves a diversity of clients with social & medical complexities that keeps us learning & growing. The goal of our APA has been to increase access to midwifery care and support normalcy of pregnancy, birth and postpartum in a densely populated area and an ever growing maternity care gap. We have a consistent home birth roster.  We are well supported by our local specialists of various disciplines, sharing care with OBs in our office for clients that would normally risk out but want midwifery care.

Our program offers Connecting Pregnancy group care or individual prenatal care. Families have found the group prenatal visits rewarding with many families staying connected well after care and choosing to do group again in subsequent pregnancies.

Please forward letters of interest & CVs to:

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