Helen Ireland ABN: 97315789512
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Helen started training as a midwife in Britain in 1983 and has worked internationally, interstate and locally providing antenatal, labour, birth and postnatal care to women from all walks of life.
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She is a passionate midwife and believes in a woman's right to make her own informed choices. A major part of her role is to inform and educate women by providing up-to-date information and education to empower them to make the best choices to keep their family safe and healthy.
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Her early life was spent with her family living in Fiji and Nigeria. She has travelled to many other countries and sees these experiences as an influence on her respectful approach to birthing and parenting. It has broadened her knowledge and understanding of the differences in cultures and ways of growing families. She likes to work with the woman and the people the woman chooses for her support at this very significant time in her life.
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Being at the birth of a baby is always a privilege. Where a woman chooses to have, her baby is a personal decision and Helen respects all possible choices available to women; whether it is a home birth or in hospital, a water birth or a Caesarian Section. Helen is happy to provide pregnancy and postnatal care in the comfort or your own home.
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She is mother of an adult son, Ben, and qualified as a nurse in London in 1982
Registered Midwife & registered Nurse
Medicare provider no: 4808771X
AHPRA reg: NMW0001007456
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Position title: Medicare eligible midwife in private practice
Period of Employment: April 2017 - Current
Self employed working with MMC offering midwifery care during pregnancy and post birth period until baby is 6 weeks old
Shared Care affiliate with The Women's, The Mercy and Sunshine hospitals
Childbirth Education sessions
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Position title: Midwife
Period of employment: September 2013 - 2019
Name of organisation: Casual Bank, Royal Women's Hospital, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria
Summary of key duties and responsibilities:
Midwifery duties in antenatal and postnatal ward setting. Also, covering midwives leave in the Women with Individual Needs Clinic and the Young Women’s Clinic.
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Position title: Midwife
Period of employment: July 2013-present
Name of organisation: Agency Midwife, Your Nursing Agency and Programmed Health, Melbourne, Victoria
Summary of key duties and responsibilities:
Midwifery duties in antenatal and postnatal ward settings in public and private hospitals across Melbourne
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Position title: Community Midwife
Period of employment: June 2013-January 2017
Name of organisation: Community Midwifery Services, Melbourne, Victoria
Summary of key duties and responsibilities:
Community midwifery duties being a known midwife to women receiving care with eligible midwives, GP's and obstetricians. Providing midwifery care for women in their homes, clinics or hospitals.
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Assertive Outreach Community Midwife
March 2009-June 2013
Inner South Community Health Service, Child, Youth and Family Team, South Melbourne, Victoria
Engaging and linking disadvantaged, pregnant women in the City of Port Phillip with health care providers, especially caring for street sex workers and teenagers, to improve their birth outcomes.
Community Midwife and Clinical Midwife Specialist
September 2002-April 2013
Monash Health (formerly Southern Health), Greater Dandenong Community Health Service, Springvale, Victoria
Midwifery duties in all areas of midwifery from the Birth Centre to tertiary care of mothers and babies and Young Women's clinic and Low English Proficiency (Non-English Speaking Background/Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) clinic.
Midwife Mentor 2006-2012
Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Victoria
Midwife mentor for the Bachelor of Midwifery students with their Follow Through Journey part of their degree.
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1982- 1983 Nurse Cardio-thoracic surgical ward, UK.
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Education
Title of qualification: Screening, Diagnostics and Prescribing for Midwives
Period of course: July 2015 - November 2015
Name of educational institution: Griffith University, Queensland
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Title of qualification: Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
Period of course: 2012
Name of educational institution: William Angliss Institute, Melbourne, Australia
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Title of qualification: Midwifery Refresher Course
Period of course: 1997
Name of educational institution:University of Brighton, England
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Midwifery: November 1983 - May 1985
Bath School of Midwifery, Bath District Health Authority, England
General Nursing: July 1979 - 1982
St Bartholomew's School of Nursing, London, England
Clare : 0416 130 291 Louise: 0409 594 676 Helen: 0421 108 056 Erin: 0404 996 815 Amanda: 0433 546 775 Sam: 0451 458 862
Renee: 0409 978 854 Kate: 0492 889 214 Nicky: 0419 135 197 Fiona: 0412 491 080 Meg: 0425 245 874 Nikki: 0439 818 581
Megan: 0438 530 394
Please note we do not have professional indemity insurance (PII) for labour & birth. Midwives have a regulatory requirement to have PII but are unable to obtain the product due to a world wide shortage of PII for midwives.
Therefore Midwives in private practice have been provided with an exemption for homebirth until June 30th 2025.
The Midwives working within the Collective have PII for antenatal and postnatal care with MIGA.
We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country throughout Victoria and pay respect to the ongoing living cultures of First Peoples.
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