{"id":32753,"date":"2025-05-20T02:28:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T02:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=32753"},"modified":"2025-05-20T02:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T02:28:26","slug":"start-your-midwifery-career-with-nsw-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/start-your-midwifery-career-with-nsw-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Start your midwifery career with NSW Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NSW Health invites registered nurses to take up the opportunity to train as midwives in a NSW public hospital in 2026.&nbsp;<a>Training includes completion of a postgraduate course and employment as a midwifery student to gain clinical experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applications have now opened for MidStart 2026 and close on 2 June 2025. Training locations are available across the state, including in rural and regional areas. Associated university enrolments into a postgraduate course open later in the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Candidates may be eligible for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.nsw.gov.au\/nursing\/scholarship\/Pages\/default.aspx\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>scholarships&nbsp;<\/strong><\/a>and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.nsw.gov.au\/careers\/Pages\/health-study-subsidies.aspx\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>study subsidies<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People are eligible to apply if they are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>an Australian citizen or Australian permanent resident<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a Registered Nurse (Division 1) with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia at the time of application.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>More information on MidStart is available on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.nsw.gov.au\/nursing\/employment\/midstart\/Pages\/default.aspx\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NSW Health website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Minister for Health, Ryan Park:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to encourage all registered nurses interested in becoming a midwife to apply for this annual program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMidStart is a great opportunity for registered nurses to become midwives in the NSW public health system and share the special journey from pregnancy to parenthood with women and their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMidwives do an exceptional job in our hospitals, making a difference every day in the lives of women, babies, and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSW Health invites registered nurses to take up the opportunity to train as midwives in a NSW public hospital in 2026.&nbsp;Training includes completion of a postgraduate course and employment as a midwifery student to gain clinical experience. Applications have now opened for MidStart 2026 and close on 2 June 2025. Training locations are available across &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/start-your-midwifery-career-with-nsw-health\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Start your midwifery career with NSW Health&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32754,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32753\/revisions\/32754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}