Midwife Opportunities

Midwifery at Lakeridge Health

Join a growing community academic health system where midwives can build meaningful careers, practice collaboratively, and help shape the future of maternal-child care in one of Ontario's fastest-growing regions.

Build. Belong. Thrive.

At Lakeridge Health, midwives are an essential part of how we care for patients, families, and communities throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum journey.

Through partnerships with affiliated community midwifery practices, midwives provide care across Durham Region while attending births at Lakeridge Health hospitals, including Oshawa and Ajax Pickering. Together, we are building sustainable, collaborative, and patient-centred models of maternal-child care within one of Ontario's largest regional health systems.

Whether you are a new graduate, experienced clinician, educator, or leader, Durham Region offers the opportunity to build a meaningful midwifery career within a growing community academic environment.

Build Your Practice

Midwives practicing with Lakeridge Health affiliated clinics provide comprehensive care throughout pregnancy, labour, birth, postpartum, and newborn care while maintaining autonomous community-based practice models grounded in informed choice and continuity of care.

Build an autonomous practice while benefiting from the strengths of a large regional maternal-child system.

Midwives with hospital credentials at Lakeridge Health benefit from access to:

Strong referral and consultation relationships.
Continuity-based models of care.
High demand and growing patient populations.
Collaborative interdisciplinary teams.
Access to tertiary expertise and hospital services.
Opportunities for innovation and leadership.
Simulation and emergency skills development programming.
Learner, teaching, and preceptor opportunities within a growing academic environment.
Research and quality improvement participation.
Continuing education and professional development opportunities.
Academic resources and evidence tools.
Ability to help shape future care models.
Opportunities to help shape evolving models of maternal-child care in one of Ontario's fastest-growing regions.

As part of our broader workforce sustainability strategy, Lakeridge Health is also exploring future opportunities related to learner integration, simulation, academic involvement, flexible practice models, and evolving maternal-child workforce design.

Belong to a Collaborative Community

At Lakeridge Health, we recognize that midwifery is more than a profession—it is a relationship-centred model of care built on trust, continuity, informed choice, and community connection.

We foster respectful and collaborative practice environments where midwives practise autonomously while working closely with physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and hospital teams across the continuum of care.

Physician Opportunities

Learner and preceptor roles

Simulation and interprofessional education through LHEARN.

Quality improvement and innovation initiatives

Maternal-child leadership opportunities.

Participation in a growing community academic health system

Learning and Academic Partnerships

Through partnerships with Queen's University and other academic institutions, Lakeridge Health continues to expand its role as a centre for learning, collaboration, research, and workforce development throughout Durham Region.

Supporting Inclusion

Lakeridge Health continues to strengthen the visibility and inclusion of midwives across broader women's health , maternal-child, education, and community care initiatives throughout the organization.

Recent examples include recognition of the International Day of the Midwife and the inclusion of midwifery perspectives within women's health and maternal-child events. These efforts reflect our commitment to collaborative, interdisciplinary, relationship-based care while strengthening professional visibility, inclusion, and belonging for midwives across the organization.

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Located just east of Toronto, Durham Region offers the opportunity to practise in a large regional system while enjoying strong community connection and quality of life.

Durham includes vibrant urban centres, growing family communities, waterfront living, rural spaces, and access to parks, trails, and conservation areas. Many clinicians are drawn to the region for its balance of professional opportunity, affordability relative to downtown Toronto, and family-friendly communities.

Durham offers opportunities to practice within a large regional health system while maintaining strong community connection and quality of life

Family-friendly communities;

More affordable housing relative to central Toronto;

Access to urban and rural practice environments;

Growing maternal-child population;

Close proximity to Toronto;

Strong community identity.

Midwives affiliated with Lakeridge Health provide care:

thought out pregnancy, labour, birth, and postpartum;
inclined, community, home, and hospital settings;
with continuity through a small team-based practice model;
and in collaboration with specialists and hospital teams when medically required

Midwives are regulated primary care providers who support physiologic birth while ensuring access to higher levels of care when needed.

Importantly, patients and families in Durham Region benefit from choice regarding their pregnancy and birth providers and care experiences. Lakeridge Health and affiliated practices are committed to supporting informed, patient-centred, and relationship-based maternal-child care.

Midwives practise through independent community clinics that hold hospital credentials at Lakeridge Health and conduct their own recruitment processes.

Community Care Midwives

135 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, Ontario
Phone: (905) 723-6088
Email: communitycaremidwives@bellnet.ca

Sages-Femme Rouge Valley Midwives

1020 Rylander Boulevard, Scarborough, Ontario
Phone: (416) 286-2228
Email: office@srvm.ca

Additional affiliated clinic opportunities may be added as partnerships continue to evolve.