Why build your career with Cabrini?
Choosing your Graduate Program is the first step in creating the career you want. So it’s important to choose the program that works for you.
Our Graduate Program is designed to shape Victoria’s best midwives. With greater access to 1:1 teaching, ongoing contracts and a proven track record of supporting graduates to build successful pathways, Cabrini’s Graduate Program offers you the best opportunity to build a career you’ll love.
With a model of care that allows you to work with mothers and their babies over their first several days together, you will have access to deeper experiential learning, and get opportunities to have a greater impact on your patients and their families.
Curated by a team informed by their own time as Cabrini Graduates, our program works for and with graduates to deliver the best possible experience.
Cabrini Graduate Program – Let’s build your career in care.
What you need to know:
- 12-month program with ongoing contract – starting mid-February 2025
- Open to newly graduating registered midwives
- Applications close 18 July
- Rotation between birth suite, post-natal and special care nursery
What you need to apply:
- No registered midwife AHPRA registration prior to 2024
- Be-on-track for AHPRA registration as a registered midwife before February 2025
- CV and certified transcripts
(please provide the key to understanding these academic results)
- Two most recent clinical placement reports with references
Please note Cabrini runs our program applications and offers independently and is not part of the PMCV APS match process.
“Cabrini is big enough to offer all the professional opportunities we want in our careers. Plus, Cabrini has a really friendly community, and people who actually care about each other”. - Cabrini Midwives
Our program - built by past graduates for today's graduates
Join our Graduate Midwifery Program to access a full range of learning experiences supported by a talented and robust team of educators, some who have been Cabrini graduates themselves.
Through your 12-month program and beyond, we will provide you access to 1:1 teaching to set you on the path to becoming confident in your practice and on your way to a successful career.
Our program centres on creating the best pathway for you, which is why we work hard to match you with the right educators and opportunities.
Operating out of the Gandel Wing at our Malvern hospital, you will have access to leading facilities, obstetricians and midwifery teams.
Secure your future - get the best start with Cabrini
Our program is designed to set you up for a successful Graduate year, to help you become the best midwife you can be. That’s why we offer:
- Ongoing contracts
- 30.4 hour week
- Free uniforms
- Interactive study days
- Leading number of supernumery days
- Flexible rosters
- Smaller cohorts, and more educators
- Leading salary packaging (means you will take home more pay)
- Committed rotation at offer stage
- Career coaching
At the conclusion of the 12-month program you will transition into your second year post registration as a midwife.
Cabrini creates a raft of professional development opportunities to enhance their graduates year, including the chance to partake in post-graduate studies and other Transitions to Speciality Practices critical care areas. Our Graduate program alumni have also developed careers beyond midwifery, working in education, leadership, quality, compliance and corporate services.
How to apply
You’ll need the following before completing your application:
- CV, including details of clinical placements undertaken
- Details of two clinical referees (name, position title, email address)
- Certified copies of your academic transcript (you can get these certified at your local chemist)
(please provide the key to understanding these academic results) - Two recent acute clinical placement reports (including your final year)
- An appropriate photo for your ID badge
Shortlisted candidates will be emailed an invite to participate in an on-site interview at the Cabrini Graduate Discovery and Assessment Day. This will involve team assessments, a hospital tour, and an opportunity to network with our current and past graduates, maternity managers and other Cabrini leaders.
Got questions?
Our graduate coordinator, Sue Hewat, is here to help you present the best possible application you can.
Feel free to send her any enquiries or questions throughout the application process.
Please send enquiries to shewat@cabrini.com.au.