Jennifer Stewart
Summary
Skilled midwife with 8 years experience educating and caring for women and their families during pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal period. Experience working in all areas of midwifery. Highly experienced in postnatal care and infant feeding, working in busy public and private healthcare facilities with patients and staff members from diverse backgrounds. Developed skills in the management of a maternity unit, clinical education, lactation and infant feeding consultations, and the implementation and provision of mental health support services for patients and their families. Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills, with aspirations to develop and improve leadership and clinical education skills, adopting new innovative ideas and methods to continue to provide excellent, high quality, evidence-based care to improve patient outcomes.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Lactation Consultant
North Shore Private Hospital
06.2022 - Current
- Educated expectant parents about the importance of exclusive breastfeeding and factors that promote facilitate successful breastfeeding
- Improved patient outcomes by providing comprehensive lactation support and education to new mothers.
- Assisted management and clinical educators in developing breastfeeding policies and protocols for optimal infant nutrition.
- Worked closely with pediatricians to address complex feeding issues in premature and medically fragile infants.
Agency Midwife
Kemp Recruitment
07.2023 - Current
- Experience working in regional Queensland (Mackay and Bundaberg) on a short-term contracts. Expanded knowledge and skills on clinical care and services offered to women and their families in rural parts of Queensland.
- Ability to adapt to work in various clinical environments and work alongside different multidisciplinary teams on daily basis in Sydney's private hospitals
- Expanded knowledge on various hospital policies and guidelines and embraced diverse work cultures
Clinical Midwife Specialist/Casual Midwife
North Shore Private Hospital
02.2018 - Current
- Adopted team leader role on evenings and weekends, supporting and communicating with all staff in unit, monitoring patient acuity and workload to identify staffing requirements in unit and ensuring appropriate skill mix
- Demonstrated ability to identify systems in place to evaluate potential clinical risk and safety concerns, aspects of care requiring improvement or change in practice and patient experiences
- Established excellent rapport with all stakeholders including obstetric and paediatric VMO's and multidisciplinary team
- Developed skills in preceptorship, continuous assessment and educating students and new staff members, identifying individual learning needs and objectives
- Working as lactation consultant, assisting maternity team with providing lactation support in management of difficult infant feeding issues.
Agency Midwife
Nurse On Call
11.2016 - 09.2017
- Orientated between antenatal, postnatal and birthing unit in busy public maternity hospital (Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin) with over 9000 births per year, providing midwifery care to both low and high risk women.
- Experience working in High Dependency Unit on birthing suit
- Developed skills in quickly adapting to change in working environment being allocated to particular maternity unit which changed on daily basis
Staff Midwife
The Rotunda Hospital
10.2015 - 11.2016
- Experience working in busy 12 bed public birthing unit with over 9000 births per year.
- Demonstrated ability to provide intrapartum and early postpartum midwifery high-quality safe care for both low risk and high risk women, women and families from diverse backgrounds, women with social issues including but not limited to drug/alcohol abuse and victims of domestic violence.
- Worked in partnership with large diverse, multi-disciplinary team including clinical/non clinical managers, obstetricians, paediatricians, nursing/midwifery staff and maternity support workers.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Midwifery
University of Dublin, Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland12.2015
Skills
- International bord certified lactation consultant (IBCLC)
- IV Cannulation and phlebotomy competency
- Experience as team leader
- Preceptorship and clinical education skills
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Flexible and adaptable to all departments in maternity care
- Software Proficiency
Additional Information
- Currently registered as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) as of June 2022. Credential no: L-306759
- AHPRA registration no: NMW0002150504
- FSEP Level 3
Timeline
Agency Midwife
Kemp Recruitment
07.2023 - Current
Lactation Consultant
North Shore Private Hospital
06.2022 - Current
Clinical Midwife Specialist/Casual Midwife
North Shore Private Hospital
02.2018 - Current
Agency Midwife
Nurse On Call
11.2016 - 09.2017
Staff Midwife
The Rotunda Hospital
10.2015 - 11.2016
Bachelor of Science - Midwifery
University of Dublin, Trinity College
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