Obstetric nurse, Training position

• A specialist training program in which theory and practice come together directly.
• Broad experience with low-, medium-, and high-complexity maternity care.
• Intensive guidance from experienced obstetric nurses, clinical supervisors, and a clinical educator/coordinator to train.
• Working according to Family Centered Care, where mother, child, and partner stay together as much as possible in a private suite.
• A place within a growing Birth Center where development, innovation, and education play an important role.

During the training, you will develop into an independent obstetric nurse. You will guide pregnant women, postpartum women, newborns, and their partners during a special and sometimes unexpectedly complex period in their lives.

You will learn to recognize and analyze clinical signs and deploy appropriate nursing care accordingly. Within our Birth Center, you will deal with low-, medium-, and high-complexity care. As a result, you will build your knowledge and independence step by step.

The training consists of theory and practice. You will follow the theoretical part at the UMC Academy, which consists of various themes and skills training. Simultaneously, you will work within our Birth Center, where you will directly apply what you have learned.

Depending on your contract size, the training lasts approximately 12 to 17 months. You work a minimum of 24 hours per week. The training starts at fixed moments. Depending on the available training position, you can start early with a preparatory period. During this period, you will further develop the competencies needed to begin the training well-prepared.

After completing your training, you can work independently as an obstetric nurse within our maternity care.

"My work is very diverse. Sometimes I go to the OR for a C-section or a pregnant or laboring woman arrives. You only experience a birth a few times in your life. I find it very special that I can witness that as an obstetric nurse and contribute to it."

Within our Birth Center, we work according to the vision of Family Centered Care. Mother, child, and partner stay together as much as possible in a private suite. As a nurse, you come to the family, instead of the other way around, and you actively involve parents in the care of their child.

You work in a large and diverse multidisciplinary team. Together, we ensure a safe environment for families and good cooperation between the various professionals surrounding mother and child.

Approximately 3,500 births take place annually within our maternity care. With the expansion of the Birth Center, we are growing towards 4,000 births per year.

In addition to regular maternity care, we have medium care, high care, and post-ICU care for newborns. Because of this, you will work with a wide range of care needs and situations.

In this video, get to know our maternity care and your future colleagues Vronie and Sofie.

• A training position within our growing Birth Center, with intensive guidance from experienced colleagues.
• An employment of 24 to 32 hours per week.
• During your training, scaling in FWG 45, or appropriate to your current position. After graduation, scaling in FWG 55 follows, in accordance with the Cao Ziekenhuizen.
• 8.33% end-of-year bonus in December and 8.33% holiday allowance.
• A pension scheme with PFZW, in which St. Antonius pays 50% of the pension premium.
• Annually 57 hours Personal Life Phase Budget based on a 36-hour work week, which you can use in a way that suits your life stage.
• Tax benefits via our Flexible Benefits System. With this, you can use part of your gross salary for, for example, a bicycle, fitness and sports, study costs, extra travel expenses, or a device.
• Plenty of room to develop professionally and personally via our extensive learning platform with live training and e-learnings.
• Through Epassi, Benefits at Work, and Tickets for Good, you get access to activities, workshops, events, and cultural outings, often for only the administrative costs.

A Certificate of Conduct (VOG) is mandatory for all positions within the St. Antonius Hospital.

You maintain an overview when a situation changes and can assess clinical signs well. You communicate clearly with patients, loved ones, and colleagues, and know when you can act independently and when you must involve others.

You are open to feedback, reflect on your actions, and enjoy further developing yourself within a specialist field. In doing so, you have an eye for both the medical situation and for what a family needs at that moment.

Furthermore, you have:

• an MBO or HBO diploma in Nursing;
• a valid BIG registration;
• clinical work experience as a nurse within a hospital.

Please explicitly mention that it concerns clinical work experience as a nurse. Many recently graduated nurses also apply who consider their internship in the hospital to be clinical work experience.

At St. Antonius, you work on (highly) complex care with your heart in the right place. We are a top-clinical teaching hospital where patient care, education, and research go hand in hand. Thanks to our size, we make a real impact, but remain agile and personal.

Our clinical priorities are heart & vascular, lungs, and cancer. Additionally, we are one of the leaders in the Netherlands in the field of value-based care. This means that we do not only look at what is medically possible, but especially at what truly makes a difference for the individual patient. By structurally measuring the most important outcomes and learning together, also with the other Santeon hospitals, we make care a little bit better every day. With us, every employee, including you, makes a difference for the patient.

Do you want to develop into an obstetric nurse within St. Antonius? Then we would love to meet you.

Would you like to know more about the training or working within our Birth Center first? Please contact Monique Commu, Clinical Educator and training coordinator, via 0686559098. She will be happy to tell you more.