Midwifery Job Openings

Lovely, gentle, summer locum opportunity in beautiful Victoria, BC!

Arbutus midwifery is looking for coverage is from June 26-July 27, 2025 for a solo postpartum-only caseload. Anticipate approximately 6 postpartum clients with due dates during that period, with a regular caseload of 4-5 postpartum EDDs per month. The caseload is full of wonderful humans, many have medical complexities and/or are newcomers to Canada, so special consideration will be given to experienced midwives, and we strongly encourage midwives who identify as IBPOC and/or speak additional languages to reach out. 

Benefits of a postpartum-only caseload include sleeping all night on most nights, and lots of flexibility with your time, which makes solo-life very manageable, if not downright pleasant! 

Please reach out to Maghan Campbell, RM for more information via the contact info below.  

Family Health Midwives is seeking a Locum for a temporary  leave of one of our team members  with  flexible  start time ideally starting May 1, 2025,  with  opportunity for permanent employment and privileges if you are a good fit for our team.     New registrants are welcome to apply. 

Family Health Clinic was founded originally in 1983 as a Naturopathic Medical Clinic and added Registered Midwives in1998. The clinic is situated in central Langley ,in the Fraser Valley, a fast-growing area with many young families. The Fraser Valley is still quite rural with a variety of organic farms, wineries and markets, opportunities for horseback riding, hiking, canoeing, paddle boarding, close to camping, skiing and more! Langley is only 45 minutes from downtown Vancouver, for the perfect balance of city and country.

Family Health Midwives work in a small team model, with a shared caseload of 4  EDD’s per midwife. Our team is committed to maintaining a satisfying work/life balance, working 1 day of clinic and 2-3 days of call each week. The midwives enjoy 12-24hr shifts and 6 weeks of vacation/year is encouraged. Our team uses Juno/Oscar and electronic faxing and is well supported by an MOA 5 days/week (and She’s awesome). Working within a Naturopathic environment offers an opportunity to learn about naturopathic medicine and pregnancy.

The successful candidate will initially be eligible for locum privileges or new registrant privileges  through the Fraser Health Authority and there is an opportunity to apply for permanent privileges . Our primary site is Langley Memorial Hospital.

The midwives enjoy many repeat clients and a home birth rate of 20-25 %. The midwives work closely and collaboratively with a small group of local specialists and feel very fortunate to have such a positive and supportive work environment in their local hospital!

We are a very supportive team who communicate well and value respect and teamwork. We are generally very flexible around scheduling and believe strongly in not tolerating bullying within healthcare. We have an excellent and fair system for allocation of pay based on a points system. All of the team are practitioners with many years of experience and would be happy to support a new graduate or a bridging graduate.

We would love to hear from you if you think our team and the lovely Fraser Valley could be the place for you! Please forward your CV or any inquiries to:

familyhealthmidwives@gmail.com or drcathycr@gmail.com
Applications will be considered until the position is filled. Contact: Cathy Carlson-Rink ND,RM

Come and spend a month in the mountains !

The position:

- 2-3 days of postpartum home visits between Whistler and Pemberton. Typically 6-9 hr days

- 1 day per week of clinic held at the Whistler Health Center. You can schedule your own hours

- 24/7 on call availability for POSTPARTUM concerns (I rarely get called past 8pm)

- Liaising with other providers in the community including public health, GP/ER physicians and our maternity group in Squamish 

- Aprox 10-14 dyads will be delivering in August 2025

The candidate:

- IBCLC is an asset 

- Ability to work independently and comfort working in a solo rural practice (there is support in Squamish but you need to be ok to work on your own).

- I have a medically and socially complex caseload so 5 years + experience is an asset  

Compensation:

- Overhead is covered. We use Telus EMR 

- Updated BC locum guidelines will be used with consideration for travel and accommodation. 

Mutiple flexible locum opportunities in beautiful Gitxsan territory with service contract payment model.

The First Nations Health Authority has 1 contract position available for a midwife in north Vancouver Island, serving Midwifery clinics in Port Hardy and/or Port McNeill, Kwakwaka’wakw Outreach Program, and in community. This contracted position also includes funded clinic space, MOA and some funding for local work-related travel.

The components of this role include provision of clinical midwifery care and non-clinical work including collaborating with Kwakwaka’wakw Maternal Child and Family Health Program as well as offering education to acute care nurses, other health care providers and doulas. These roles also involve community-based education to support families and outreach to local First Nations communities.

The midwife will provide comprehensive prenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care, in the Mt. Waddington area. The midwife will also ensure that these clinical services are provided in a culturally safe and appropriate way to the local First Nations communities in the north island region. The midwife will share call coverage, with at least one midwife on call at any given time.

The successful midwife will collaborate with other practitioners to meet the care needs of mother and baby, whether the birth is planned to take place locally on the north island or requires a higher level of care at another site on Vancouver Island. The midwife will work collaboratively with other midwive(s) to serve this area.

This unique midwifery opportunity, providing clinical care, leadership activities and educational support to other health care providers, will be especially appealing to midwives seeking diversity in their work, and who have keen interest in serving a predominantly indigenous population.

There is a requirement that the successful Midwife will register for and complete the San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety training available through PHSA within 6 months.

Community Information

Located on the northeastern coast of Vancouver Island, the communities of Port McNeill and Port Hardy offer year-round recreational activities in a natural wilderness with large expanses of undeveloped coastline.

The combined population of the communities is approximately 6,800 residents. With regularly scheduled daily flights from Port Hardy, Vancouver is less than an hour away. Combining this with a good highway, you can live and work close to nature, while enjoying ease of access to larger centres.

For additional information, visit: https://www.porthardy.ca/  and http://www.town.portmcneill.bc.ca/ . This recruitment collaboration between First Nations Health Authority and Island Health; the contracted position is held with FNHA, while privileging and credentialing is in accordance with the Island Health Medical Staff Rules and Bylaws.

Please contact: Celina Callaghan, Medical Staff Recruiter, Island Health, medstaffrecruitment@islandhealth.ca 

Surrey Mama Midwifery is currently seeking a full-time or part-time midwife to join our growing practice.