Midwifery Scholarships 2025
Midwifery Scholarships 2025
Take the next step towards a Flight Nurse career with an iconic Australian charity. The RFDS Midwifery Scholarship offers support to make it happen!
Classifications
- Healthcare & Medicine
- Nurse / Midwife
- Full-time
Key points
- Up to $10,000 towards a midwifery qualification
- Future employment opportunity with Australia's leading aeromedical provider
- Supportive team with ongoing training opportunities
Description
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) (RFDS) is offering midwifery scholarships to suitably qualified Registered Nurses with a background in critical care. As part of the scholarship program, nurses will receive financial assistance of up to $10,000 as they pursue the midwifery qualification required to become a Flight Nurse for RFDS. The Midwifery Scholarship is generously donated by the Dalara Foundation and the Maureen Stevenson Foundation.
Who are we looking for?
You are an adaptable, resourceful, and skilled critical care nurse who is highly committed to your patients. You are confident in applying your hard-earned experience in an unique and autonomous environment outside of a hospital setting across a variety of presentations. As part of your application, you will be able to demonstrate:
- Registration with AHPRA as a Registered Nurse
- At least three years experience in a critical care environment in either a recognised major regional or tertiary hospital Emergency Department, with 24-hour in-department medical coverage and/or a recognised Intensive Care Unit; and
- Evidence of an application or acceptance into a relevant midwifery course commencing in 2025 or be currently enrolled in a midwifery course with completion due in 2025; an
- A commitment to work at any RFDS (Queensland Section) base within 12 months of successful completion of your midwifery studies and registration as a Midwife with AHPRA; and
- Valid working rights for Australia
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) are leaders in improving the health of people in remote, rural and regional Queensland. As we head toward our 100th year of providing services, we are focused on providing safe, high-quality clinical care.
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) offers primary healthcare services at three traditional bases (Mount Isa, Charleville, and Cairns) and inter-facility transfers and aeromedical retrieval services at all operational bases. Various clinical scenarios require retrievals, such as intensive care, trauma, emergency, cardiology, neurology, obstetrics, paediatrics, and neonatology. No day is ever the same in this dynamic role with new and exciting challenges!
After completing your midwifery studies, you will be able to utilise all the skills you have acquired to make a positive impact on people's lives by providing essential care during emergencies. RFDS (Queensland Section) offers Flight Nurses (Midwifery):
- $137K pa (FTE) + Super
- Access to generous not-for-profit tax-free benefits of up to $18,550
- Relocation allowances
- We provide extensive and supportive orientation, training and development programs
- Ongoing commitment to support your professional development with additional paid study leave
- Employee Assistance Program; advice for staff and their families (support, nutrition & financial)
- Discounted private health insurance
- Rent/ mortgage assistance (up to $465 per week in Mount Isa and $260 per week in Charleville)
- Gratuity payments starting at $3,800 (payable after 12 months of service with yearly increases)
- Annual remote area payment of $4600
If you would like any further information, please contact Talent Acquisition at recruitment@rfdsqld.com.au or call 07 3852 7553.
Alternatively, please contact State Manager Aeromedical Nursing- Jacinta Jones jjones@rfdsqld.com.au
Please ensure that your resume identifies your job title, start and end dates, department, a brief description, whether you worked full-time, part-time or casually and the number of hours or FTE you worked. This information helps us establish your FTE and experience.
Before commencement as a Flight Nurse, successful candidates must undergo a drug and alcohol test and possibly a medical assessment. You must possess a valid, unrestricted Australian Driver's Licence and obtain an ASIC Card. Additionally, candidates must complete the RFDS and Queensland Health credentialing process successfully.
The Royal Flying Doctor Service acknowledges the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of the nation and the Traditional Custodians of the land. The RFDS is committed to eliminating all forms of discrimination in the provision of healthcare. We embrace diversity and welcome all people irrespective of faith, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity.
Applications for this role close on the 15th of December 2024 however, shortlisting and screening processes may begin before this date.
