Are you our new colleague?

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

We have strengthened our core staffing and have vacancies for temporary and permanent positions with varying degrees of employment in three shifts, including work every third weekend. The Delivery Department at Sykehuset Østfold is the country's 6th largest, with just over 3,000 deliveries per year. We have a dynamic work environment focused on normal deliveries and specialized delivery care.

We can offer an exciting and challenging workplace with good colleagues and a good work environment. You will work with all parts of delivery care, such as observation of inpatients, normal deliveries, specialized delivery assistance, and postnatal care. We focus heavily on quality, professional development, and interdisciplinary collaboration/teamwork. Our goal is to take care of the whole family and provide safe and good delivery and postnatal care.

With us, you will encounter a consolidated women's clinic. In addition to the delivery and maternity ward, we also have a gynecological department with 9 beds. We have extensive surgical operations, including day surgery, and our own operating room in the outpatient clinic. We have operations both at Kalnes and in Moss. Annually, we have approximately 26,500 outpatient consultations, consisting of delivery outpatient clinic, postnatal outpatient clinic, acute delivery/gynecological outpatient clinic, urodynamics outpatient clinic, and gynecological outpatient clinic.

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Workplace and Scheduling

Sykehuset Østfold, Kalnes, is located about a 50-minute drive from Oslo and about 30 minutes from Strömstad. There are good public transport connections nearby. We have a preference schedule. For those who desire more flexibility during the day, there is the possibility of more night shifts in the schedule/pure night schedule. We are currently investigating solutions with, among other things, 12.5-hour shifts that can provide the opportunity to work more compactly and have longer periods of leave, especially if you live some distance from the hospital.

Current candidates are called for interviews on an ongoing basis, and employment can take place before the application deadline expires. Please state in your application which degree of employment you desire.

Job Responsibilities

As a midwife with us, you rotate between the observation, delivery, and postnatal departments.

The observation department takes care of sick pregnant women and induction patients.
The delivery department has 9 delivery rooms, of which 6 are adapted for water birth. We have both normal and specialized deliveries.
The postnatal department consists of two wards, one with 20 beds and one with 9 beds. We offer individually adapted postnatal care.
Professional responsibility for inpatients, delivery, and postnatal patients.
Care and guidance for new parents.
Follow-up of newborns in the perinatal period.
We use systems such as Dips, Partus, and Metavision.
Contribute to quality and patient safety work as well as professional development.
You work in a team with skilled midwives, nurses, childcare workers, and doctors.
Changes in the position may occur.

Qualifications

Experience from delivery and postnatal departments.
Experience as a delivering midwife.
Thrives in a dynamic work environment.
Is professionally engaged and wants to contribute to the development of our department.
Focuses on collaboration and patient care.
Norwegian license as a midwife.
Proficient in Norwegian and English, with good oral and written communication skills.

Personal Attributes

You are motivated, professionally engaged, responsible, and contribute to a continued good work and professional environment.
You are flexible, engaged, and communicate well.
You have high work capacity.
You thrive in a hectic environment and handle several parallel tasks.
You like working in a team with other skilled colleagues.
Good communication and collaboration skills, as well as the ability to work independently.
Personal suitability will be given great weight.

What We Offer

A pleasant work environment focused on support and collaboration.
Good opportunities for professional development and competence enhancement.
Close follow-up of new employees with individually adapted introduction periods and competence plans.
Engaged professional developers and mandatory professional days in the schedule.
Varied tasks in an exciting and dynamic daily life.
Modern facilities and high professional level.
The Women's Clinic has its own research group.
Preference schedule with the possibility to influence your own working hours, work every third weekend.
Ongoing work on solutions for 12.5-hour shifts with compressed working hours and longer leave.
With 5 years of experience as a midwife, a recruitment supplement of 50,000 NOK is given.
Good welfare arrangements.
Good insurance arrangements.
Pension scheme through KLP.

Salary and Seniority

Documentation of education, work experience, and statutory leave such as childcare and military service must be attached to the application and appear in the CV. Documentation should be in PDF format and in Scandinavian or English. All work experience from the age of 18 must be registered in the CV as it is used as the basis for salary and seniority.

General Information

According to the Health and Care Services Act § 20a, an extract from the police register is required upon employment.

In accordance with the Public Access to Information Act, information about applicants may be published even if the applicant has requested not to be included on the applicant list.

The hospital practices an inclusive working life and follows the government's inclusion initiative. This means that we welcome qualified candidates regardless of gender, age, disability, national or ethnic background, and candidates who for various reasons cannot document a continuous career.

If you do not have a Norwegian license, you can read more on the Directorate of Health's website about how to proceed. Here you will also find information for foreign workers in Norway about what is required when you are to work here.