Certified Nurse Midwife - Advanced Practice

Mercyhealth, an award-winning fully integrated health care delivery organization based in Wisconsin and Illinois, is seeking an experienced Midwife to join our Women's Health team at our Mulford Clinic in Rockford, IL.

Mercyhealth's Mission - "Exceptional health care services with a passion for making lives better." Touching lives invigorates, inspires and drives us to do our very best, and we continuously look for ways to make each life better with the utmost care and professionalism

Opportunity:

• Provide patient care and education to an assigned caseload of obstetrical and gynecological patients in accordance with established midwifery practice guidelines
• Educate midwifery, medical and nursing students, and nursing and resident staff in normal childbirth.
• Collaboration with our experienced OB/GYN physician team
• Hours will vary clinic office hours are 8a-5p and calls are shared amongst midwife group with CNMs performing 24-hour on call shifts
• Position will include both clinic and assisting with deliveries at the hospital, including c-sections in the OR
• Our newly constructed $505 million-dollar specialty referral hospital along I-90 in Rockford features a women's and children's unit with neonatal and high-risk maternity care.

Qualifications:

• Graduate of an accredited Midwifery Program
• Current IL RN license
• Current IL APRN license
• Current DEA number
• Other certifications as required
• Previous Midwife experience preferred

Compensation:

• Highly competitive compensation
• Sign-on bonus
• CME allowance
• Robust and comprehensive benefit package

Mercyhealth

Mercyhealth is a vertically integrated health care system in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois with approximately 800 physicians, 8,000 employees, 7 hospitals, 80 ambulatory locations; pharmacies, DME, Home Health, and an insurance company. We continue to grow and looking forward to opening our new Crystal Lake Hospital early in 2023! We are large, but treat our physicians and employees as family.

Community

Rockford is the third largest city in the state of Illinois. Settled on the banks of the Rock River, Rockford is notable for its economic diversification into automotive, aerospace, and healthcare industries, as well as the undertaking of various tourism and downtown revitalization efforts.

Rockford is known for various venues of cultural or historical significance, including Anderson Japanese Gardens, Klehm Arboretum, the Coronado Theatre, and the Burpee Museum of Natural History. Rockford has been recognized as one of the most affordable housing markets in the nation less than an hour and a half drive from downtown Chicago and Milwaukee and less than an hour from Madison, Wisconsin.

Mercyhealth offers a generous total rewards package to eligible employees including, but not limited to:

* Comprehensive Benefits Package: Mercyhealth offers a retirement plan with competitive matching contribution, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance options, life and disability coverage, access to flexible spending plans, and a variety of other discounted voluntary benefit options.

* Competitive Compensation: Mercyhealth offers market competitive rates of pay and participates in various shift differential and special pay incentive programs.

* Paid Time Off: Mercyhealth offers a generous paid time off plan, which increases with milestone anniversaries, to allow employees the opportunity for a great work-life balance.

* Career Advancement: Mercyhealth offers a number of educational assistance programs and career ladders to support employees in their educational journey and advancement within Mercyhealth.

* Employee Wellbeing: Mercyhealth has a focus on wellbeing for employees across the organization and offers a number of tools and resources, such as an employer-sponsored health risk assessment and a Wellbeing mobile application, to assist employees on their wellbeing journey.

* Additional Benefits: Mercyhealth employees have access to our internal and external employee assistance programs, employee-only discount packages, paid parental and caregiver leaves, on-demand pay, special payment programs for patient services, and financial education to help with retirement planning.