Victoria Hospital
We currently have an exciting opportunity for an experienced band 6 midwife to join our team here at NHS Fife.
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 Planned Caesarean Section team as well as a separate Induction of Labour Suite.
Last year our maternity Assessment unit provided over 17,000 triage phone assessments and in excess of 7000 face to face consultations.
We have an increasing number of Maternity Care assistants who are invaluable to our service.
Our team along with Held In Our Hearts were RCM Finalists 2025 in Outstanding Achievement in Bereavement Care category, of which we are extremely proud and grateful.
Our maternity ward is a 13 bedded area that caters to ante and postnatal women as well as provides stage 1 level National Transitional Care. The ward has a multifaceted team of midwives, nursery nurses, maternity care assistants as well as the wider multidisciplinary team.
We provide education and training for the multi disciplinary team and provide practice assessors and supervisors for our student midwifery cohorts.
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 training and education to support all our staff to 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 provide evidence based safe effective care
You should be motivated, passionate about midwifery and have woman and families at the heart of everything they do.
We encourage professional development and 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 needs added to 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, Inpatient 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.
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 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.
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