Midwife

Are you our new colleague?

We are looking for midwives and midwifery students who are passionate about providing safe and good care to women, newborns, and the new family.

We have strengthened our core staffing and have vacancies for both temporary positions and permanent roles in various degrees of employment. Work is conducted in three shifts with duty every third weekend. The maternity ward at Sykehuset Østfold is Norway's sixth largest maternity ward with over 3,000 births per year. We have a dynamic work environment with a focus on normal births and specialized maternity care.

We offer an exciting and challenging workplace with great colleagues and a pleasant working environment. You will work within the entire care chain surrounding pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum care, including monitoring of inpatient pregnant women, normal births, specialized maternity care, and postpartum ward care.

We place great emphasis on quality, professional development, and interprofessional collaboration. Our goal is to take care of the whole family and offer safe and qualitative childbirth and postpartum care. With us, you will encounter an integrated women's clinic. In addition to the maternity and postpartum sections, we also have a gynecological ward with nine beds. We conduct extensive surgical activities, including day surgery, and have our own operating room at the outpatient clinic. The operations are located in both Kalnes and Moss.

We conduct approximately 26,500 outpatient visits annually within:

• Maternity clinic
• Postpartum clinic
• Emergency maternity and gynecological clinic
• Urodynamic clinic
• Gynecological clinic

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Sykehuset Østfold in Kalnes is located approximately a 50-minute drive from Oslo and approximately 30 minutes from Strömstad, with good public transport connections.

We apply a preference-based schedule (önskeschema). For those who desire greater flexibility during the day, there are opportunities for more night shifts or pure night duty. We also work with solutions that include 12.5-hour shifts, which can provide opportunities for compressed work schedules and longer periods of leave.

Interviews are conducted continuously, and employment can occur before the application deadline. Please state in your application which degree of employment you desire.

Tasks: As a midwife with us, you will rotate between the observation unit, the maternity ward, and the postpartum ward.

Observation unit:

• Care of ill pregnant women and patients undergoing induction of labor.

Maternity ward:

• 9 delivery rooms, of which 6 are adapted for water birth.
• Normal births and specialized maternity care.

Postpartum ward:

• Two postpartum units, one with 20 beds and one with 9 beds.
• Individually adapted postpartum care.

Other tasks:

• Midwifery responsibility for inpatient pregnant women, women in labor, and recently delivered women.
• Support and guidance to new parents.
• Follow-up of newborns during the perinatal period.
• Work in journal systems such as DIPS, Partus, and Metavision.
• Contribute to quality work, patient safety, and operational development.
• Collaboration with midwives, nurses, assistant nurses, and doctors.

The position may develop and change over time.

Qualifications/We are looking for you who:

• Has experience from a maternity or postpartum ward.
• Has experience as a midwife during births.
• Enjoys a dynamic work environment.
• Is professionally committed and wants to contribute to the development of the ward.
• Focuses on collaboration and patient care.
• Has Norwegian authorization as a midwife.
• Proficient in Norwegian and English, both orally and in writing.

Personal qualities: You are:

• Motivated, committed, and responsible.
• Positive and contributes to a good working environment.
• Flexible and communicative.
• Capable of handling a high pace of work.
• Comfortable with multiple parallel tasks.
• Team-oriented and appreciates collaboration.
• Independent with good collaborative abilities.

Great importance is placed on personal suitability.

We offer:

• A pleasant working environment with a focus on support and collaboration.
• Good opportunities for competence development.
• Individually adapted introduction for new employees.
• Competence plans and professional follow-up.
• Committed education managers and recurring training days.
• Varied tasks in an exciting everyday life.
• Modern facilities and high medical competence.
• Own research group within the women's clinic.
• Preference-based schedule with work every third weekend.
• Opportunity for 12.5-hour shifts and longer continuous leave.
• Recruitment supplement of 50,000 NOK after 5 years of experience as a midwife.
• Employee benefits.
• Favorable insurance.
• Occupational pension through KLP.

Does this sound interesting? Then we look forward to receiving your application!

Information about salary placement: Documentation of education, work experience, and statutory leaves, such as parental leave and military service, must be attached to the application and appear in the CV. Documents must be in PDF format in a Scandinavian language or English. All work experience from the age of 18 must be registered in the CV as it is used as a basis for salary placement and calculation of employment time.

Other information: According to Norwegian law on health and care personnel (§20a), an extract from the police certificate is required upon employment. The hospital works actively for diversity and inclusion and welcomes qualified applicants regardless of gender, age, functional variation, national or ethnic background, or other circumstances.

About the employer: Sykehuset Østfold is one of Europe's most modern and high-tech hospitals. Here, over 7,000 committed employees work together to provide patients with safe, qualitative, and cohesive care. The hospital offers specialist care within somatics, psychiatry, and addiction care to more than 300,000 inhabitants in Østfold and Vestby. Operations are primarily conducted at the hospitals in Kalnes and Moss. In addition to patient care, the hospital conducts extensive research, innovation projects, and educational activities. Here, you will have good opportunities to develop professionally throughout your career. While you work with world-class care and technology, you are close to nature, the sea, and charming small towns in Østfold. Perhaps you will find your new professional life with us?