Midwifery in Ireland

Professional Connections has been working in partnership with the Health Service Executive (HSE) for the past two years to recruit midwives for midwifery jobs in Ireland. We are seeking to recruit newly qualified and experienced Midwives. 

We offer "cradle to grave" support from inital enquiry, preparing your paperwork, interview preparation, exploring best location for you and your family if applicable. Assisting you with all aspects of obtaining registration with the Irish Nursing Board, assistance with the logistics of the recruitment process post interview to include health screening and medical screening.

Benefits include

• Paid flight from your nearest international airport to Ireland
• Six weeks free accommodation
• Meet and greet service on arrival
• Orientation programme
• Ongoing support during your contract
• Assistance with registation with Irish Nursing Board
• Immigration and visa assistance if you are a non EU Citizen

We also have posts at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, the center of excellence in the Active Management of Labour.

More information

It is a very interesting and exciting time to be a midwife in Ireland. There are many changes occurring within the profession and in the provision of maternity services and the two are inter-linked. Midwives are reasserting their separate professional identity. Midwifery education has gone through a period of change and it is expected that this will continue in the coming years.

Community Midwifery Services and Integrated Hospital Community Midwifery Services are developing and becoming established as an integral part of making the health service more responsive to the needs of the population and promoting individual, family and community health and well-being. Other maternity services are looking at ways of providing more choice about the type of care offered and delivered, about who provides it and where. Midwives are actively involved and leading all of these developments. The continuing rise in the birth rate and the changing cultural profile of the population also has had a significant effect on the role of midwives.

Most midwives are employed in maternity hospitals or maternity units attached to general hospitals. There are a small number of midwifery led units being developed. Midwives may also practice independently in the community.

There are seven schools of midwifery in Ireland and all are situated in healthcare facilities. All offer post registration midwifery registration education programmes in partnership with a linked third level institution. On successful completion the students are awarded a Higher Diploma or Post-Graduate Diploma in midwifery from the third level institution. Pre registration (direct entry) Midwifery Registration Education Programmes are offered from most universities from September 2006 and from one I.T. Following successful completion of the all programmes, students are eligible for registration as a midwife with An Bord Altranais.