Certified Nurse-Midwife Job Opening

Community Home Birth Practice | Waukesha, Wisconsin

Who We Are

Family Focused Midwifery provides personalized, evidence-informed home birth care to families throughout Southeastern Wisconsin. We believe pregnancy and birth care should feel relational, supportive, and individualized while maintaining high standards for safety and clinical care.

Our model allows us to spend meaningful time with families throughout pregnancy, prepare them well for birth and postpartum, and support physiologic birth while maintaining clear clinical guidelines for consultation, collaboration, and transfer when needed.

As our practice grows, we are intentionally building a collaborative team where midwives can provide meaningful, relationship-based care without carrying the responsibility of running a practice or being on call alone.

We want our midwives to have sustainable careers, meaningful time away from work, and a team they can rely on.

What It's Like to Work Here

Family Focused Midwifery is a growing community-based practice where collaboration, professionalism, communication, and excellent clinical care matter.

Our midwives work together rather than practicing in isolation. Clients have the opportunity to know the midwives who may attend their birth, while midwives benefit from shared call, backup coverage, administrative support, and clinical collaboration.

We value midwives who trust physiologic birth while also recognizing when consultation, intervention, or transfer is the safest next step.

Our goal is to create a practice where both families and the clinicians caring for them feel well supported.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) interested in becoming part of our growing community birth practice.

We are intentionally keeping this position flexible and are open to building the role collaboratively with the right candidate. Depending on experience, availability, interests, and the needs of the practice, the position may include a combination of prenatal care, home birth attendance, postpartum and newborn care, shared call, and clinical support.

The role may begin on a smaller part-time or PRN basis and grow as our practice and clinical team expand. We are open to discussing different scheduling and call arrangements and want to create a position that is sustainable for both the midwife and the practice.

Responsibilities may include:

  • Providing prenatal care and client education

  • Attending home births as part of a collaborative midwifery team

  • Providing postpartum and newborn care

  • Participating in a shared call schedule

  • Providing telephone or portal triage as appropriate

  • Collaborating with the practice owner/CNM, RN birth assistants, and other members of the clinical team

  • Maintaining timely and accurate clinical documentation

  • Coordinating consultation or transfer to hospital-based care when clinically indicated

  • Participating in team meetings, case reviews, emergency drills, and continuing education

  • Contributing to the continued development and growth of the practice

Specific clinical hours, expected birth volume, call responsibilities, and scheduling will be determined collaboratively based on the candidate's availability and the needs of the practice.

Who We're Looking For

We would love to find a midwife who:

  • Is compassionate, dependable, professional, and collaborative

  • Loves relationship-based maternity care

  • Is confident supporting physiologic pregnancy and birth

  • Uses sound clinical judgment and evidence-informed decision-making

  • Recognizes when consultation, intervention, or hospital transfer is appropriate

  • Communicates calmly and effectively during both routine and emergent situations

  • Values informed decision-making and individualized care

  • Is comfortable practicing independently while also valuing a collaborative team

  • Is committed to ongoing learning and maintaining strong clinical skills

  • Values respectful relationships with clients, birth assistants, EMS, hospital teams, and community providers

  • Is interested in helping shape and grow a sustainable community birth practice

Home birth or birth center experience is strongly preferred, although CNMs with significant maternity experience and a genuine interest in community birth are encouraged to apply.

Requirements

Candidates must:

  • Be an APRN with a Certified Nurse-Midwife specialty

  • Maintain an active, unrestricted Wisconsin license appropriate to their role

  • Maintain current Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification

  • Maintain current BLS/CPR certification

  • Meet practice requirements for professional liability coverage

  • Maintain any additional certifications or credentials required for their scope of practice

  • Have reliable transportation and be comfortable traveling throughout the practice's service area

  • Be able to participate in an agreed-upon on-call schedule

  • Demonstrate competency in maternal and newborn assessment, emergency management, stabilization, and transfer of care

  • Successfully complete practice orientation, emergency drills, and clinical competency requirements

Compensation & Position Structure

This is a flexible opportunity with the potential to grow alongside the practice.

The exact structure of the position will be developed collaboratively with the selected candidate and may vary based on experience, desired workload, and availability.

Salary is dependent on experience.

Apply

To apply, please send a resume to beth@familyfocusedmidwifery.com.