Senior Charge Midwife AA

Nhsscotland; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Charge Midwife for a part-time position focusing on clinical coordination in the maternity service. The role offers responsibilities in governance and support for staff development. Applicants must be experienced NMC Registered Midwives, have a degree in Midwifery, and possess strong communication skills. This position involves collaboration with various medical teams to provide high-quality care to women and families. Competitive salary pro rata and flexible working offered.

Benefits

Flexible working

Family-friendly policies

Support for disabled candidates

Qualifications

• Must be an experienced NMC Registered Midwife.
• Educated to degree level.
• Possess enthusiasm and excellent teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical, professional, and managerial responsibility.
• Ensure capacity and flow in the Maternity unit.
• Collaborate with medical staff in guideline review.

Skills

Effective communication

Team working skills

Clinical governance

Education

Degree in Midwifery

Job description

Due to career progression we currently have a vacancy for a 22.2 hour per week Senior Charge Midwife. Primarily this post is for the Clinical Coordination of the Inpatient Maternity Service but can be rotational.

NHS Fife maternity is a modern, thriving and progressive unit with approximately 3000 births per year. The services includes outpatient and community services, and multi faceted inpatient services which include a complex care Consultant Unit and an alongside Midwife Led Unit

We also have our own Elective Caesarean Section team as well as a separate Induction of Labour Suite.

Last year our maternity triage unit provided over 17,000 triage phone assessments and in excess of 7000 face to face consultations.

We are a fast paced thriving unit, looking for a motivated, experienced midwife to assist, lead, nurture and develop our service. To continually provide a high level of care and meet the changing needs of pregnant woman and families of whom we serve. We are looking for an individual who has the knowledge and capabilities to guide and support our staff to maintain this level of skill.

You will have clinical, professional and managerial responsibility on an ongoing basis, including all clinical and staff governance issues.

The Maternity co-ordinator ensures capacity and flow and a seamless patient journey. You will have close working relationships with all grades of medical staff and collaborate in the review and writing of departmental guidelines.

We will encourage you with your professional development education via our dedicated clinical midwife educator and midwifery PEF. We have an extremely successful in house leadership programme and regularly encourage staff to participate in external networking.

An organisations culture and values cascades from its leadership. Our Head of Midwifery was a Royal College of Midwives national awards nominated finalist in 2021 for her work and dedication to staff well being during a Global Pandemic. This if nothing else should let you know how much NHS Fife values its staff.

Women and families are at the centre of all we do. We are progressive, dynamic and willing; all that is missing from our service is YOU

You must be an experienced NMC Registered Midwife, educated to degree level. In addition you should possess enthusiasm, excellent team working skills with effective communication.

For informal enquiries, please contact Pamela Higgins, Clinical Midwifery Manager, 01592 729768

A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.

Please note as this a part time post salary is pro rata

NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application.

We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.
As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK websitehere.

For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or going rate. Further information on these criteria can be foundhere.
It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsoredBEFORE submitting your application form.

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

Reference: 229242

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 23/12/2025

How To Apply: https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/./displayjob.aspx?jobid=229640&source=JobtrainRss