Senior Charge Midwife 197034 AA

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Charge Midwife within our team at NHS Fife. You will have Clinical, professional and managerial responsibility for own area which includes all clinical and staff governance issues. The post holder is responsible for service provision, including the delivery of safe and effective clinical practice, ensuring that all local and national guidelines and targets are adhered to and met.

Our unit is modern and progressive with approximately 3000 births per year. The services include outpatient and community services, a complex care Consultant Unit and an alongside Midwife Led Unit. We have an Induction of Labour unit and Elective Caesarean section team. We have the following additional teams: Birth at Home Team, Vulnerable in Pregnancy, Infant Nutrition, Perinatal Mental Health and Child Protection.

We are developing services in line with Best Start recommendations. We are focussing on increasing our rates of continuity of carer in the first instance.

We will encourage you with your professional development educational 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.

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.