Midwife Opportunities

Practise with Community Midwifery Teams Affiliated with 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. Durham Region is one of Ontario’s fastest growing communities. At Lakeridge Health, midwives are an essential part of how we care for patients, families, and communities through 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 working to build 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 affiliated with Lakeridge Health benefit from:

· 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;

· Leadership and innovation opportunities;

· Ability to help shape future care models;

· and 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 grounded in informed choice, continuity, autonomy, and community connection.

Midwives practise autonomously while working closely with obstetrics, family medicine obstetrics, anesthesia, pediatrics, nursing, allied health professionals, and hospital teams across the continuum of care.

Lakeridge Health continues to strengthen visibility and inclusion of midwives across broader women’s health, maternal-child, education, and community care initiatives throughout the organization. Recent examples have included recognition of the International Day of the Midwife and inclusion of midwifery perspectives within women’s health and maternal-child initiatives and events.

Serving one of Ontario’s fastest growing and increasingly diverse regions also creates important opportunities to support culturally responsive, equitable, and community-informed maternal-child care. Through partnerships across maternal-child, community, and population health teams, Lakeridge Health continues to advance approaches that recognize the importance of access, informed choice, belonging, and relationship-based care for diverse patients, families, and communities.

Live in Durham Region

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.

Community Midwifery Practices

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.

Learn More About Midwifery at Lakeridge Health

Visit our Midwifery at Lakeridge Health page to learn more about:

· practising in Durham Region;

· affiliated community clinics;

· maternal-child services;

· learner and academic opportunities;

· simulation and education supports;