Midwives provide care and advice to women during pregnancy, labour and childbirth, and postnatal care for women and babies in a range of settings such as the home, community, hospitals, clinics, and health units.

Skill Level

1

Alternative Titles

• Certified Midwife
• Registered Midwife

Specialisations

• Community Midwife
• Midwife Practitioner

Unless you are exempt in very limited circumstances, you are required to have a positive Skills Assessment to apply for the visas listed above.

Skills Assessment authority for Midwife is Australian Nursing & Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC). To have a positive skills assessment, you must meet the following criteria:

• ANMAC uses five criteria to assess the skills of applicants. Applicants are required to meet all requirements to obtain a positive skills assessment
  • Proof of Identity
    • Applicants must provide evidence of passport, change of name documents and a passport sized photo
  • English Language Proficiency
    • IELTS Academic Test – minimum score of 7 in each component
    • OET – minimum score of B in each component
    • PTE Academic – minimum overall score of 65
    • TOEFL iBT – minimum total score of 94 and minimum scores of 24 in listening and reading, 27 in writing and 23 in speaking
  • Educational Equivalence
    • Applicants are assessed against the current Australian nursing and midwifery educational standards
    • Applicants must provide graduation certificates and basic transcripts from all nursing or midwifery courses that are completed
    • Full Applicants must also provide a transcript that details the number of hours completed in both theoretical and practical components of the relevant nursing or midwifery course
  • Professional Practice
    • The applicant must have practised as a nurse or midwife in the past 5 years
    • Applicants must provide professional references that meet the following criteria:
      • Official letterhead
      • Written by a direct supervisor who is a nurse or midwife
      • Dated
      • Contain an original signature
      • Includes hospital email address and contact phone number for organisation *note mobile numbers are not accepted
      • ANMAC provide a Professional Reference Template for applicants to use

Provide care and advice to women during pregnancy, labour and childbirth, and postnatal care for women and babies in a range of settings such as the home, community, hospitals, clinics and health units.

Tasks

• Providing advice and support during pre-conception, intrapartum, antenatal and postnatal periods in partnership with women
• Providing care and management of pregnancy and birth
• Assessing progress and recognising warning signs of abnormal and potentially abnormal pregnancies requiring referral to an Obstetrician
• Monitoring the condition of women and foetuses during pregnancy and throughout labour
• Conducting health education classes and seminars to promote the health of mothers and babies such as reproductive health, antenatal education, preparation for parenthood and breastfeeding
• Providing advice on nutrition, childcare and family planning

Skill Level

Occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with a bachelor degree or higher qualification (ANZSCO Skill Level 1).

Registration or licensing is required.

Occupations in this Group

• 254111 Midwife