Midwife Specialist - Quality (MQSP)

About the role

Wellington Hospital is recruiting an experienced midwife to join its Maternity team as a Midwife Specialist - Quality in a permanent 0.5 FTE position (20 hours per week). The role leads and coordinates the maternity quality and safety programme, working with maternity leadership, clinical teams, Lead Maternity Carers, consumers and other stakeholders to turn ideas and evidence into improvements in maternity care.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate maternity quality improvement and quality assurance activities
• Support Maternity Clinical Governance, including the progression of agreed quality initiatives
• Lead and support quality improvement projects, audits and evaluation
• Monitor maternity outcomes and identify opportunities for improvement, with a focus on equity of outcomes for Māori whānau
• Ensure the consumer and whānau voice contributes to clinical governance and service improvement
• Work with LMCs, maternity staff and community and primary care partners
• Support review and development of maternity guidelines, consumer information and other controlled documents
• Contribute to maternity outcome reporting and the Annual Maternity Clinical Report
• Support colleagues in building their knowledge of quality improvement and audit
• Connect with Midwife Specialists - Quality regionally and nationally to share learning

Required profile

• New Zealand Midwifery Council registration and a current APC
• Minimum of three years' midwifery experience
• Curious, collaborative and passionate about improving maternity care
• Understanding of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its application in maternity care
• Ability to work across professional and service boundaries
• Interest in using data, evidence, audit and consumer feedback to drive improvement
• Strong organisation, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Experience in quality improvement, audit or maternity clinical governance is an advantage; postgraduate midwifery or women's health education and QLP Leadership Domain is desirable

Applications are made through the online careers portal by 22 November 2026; applications are reviewed as they arrive.