The Role
We are looking to recruit a Charge Midwife to join the Maternity team at University Hospital Monklands.
The successful candidates will assist the Senior Charge Midwife to deliver high quality evidence based woman and baby centred care.
S/he will be involved in providing both individualised patient care and in planning, implementing and evaluating clinical care within all areas of the maternity service, ensuring compliance with NHS Lanarkshire’s policy and procedures and maintaining statutory requirements in accordance with the NMC.
Contract type & Shift Pattern
Band 7 / Part Time / 34.02 hours / Permanent
NHS Lanarkshire
Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.
Why join NHS Lanarkshire?
Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.
Some of NHS Lanarkshire benefits include:
1. A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service (pro-rata for part time staff)
2. A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
3. Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the )
4. Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
5. Occupational health services
6. Employee Counselling services
7. Work-life Balance policies and procedures
NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.
What we'll need you to bring
8. Registered Midwife with valid NMC Registration
9. Educated to/working towards/operating at Degree Level
10. Post graduate expertise within speciality / area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently.
11. Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality / area of practice.
12. Specialist knowledge and experience of relevant conditions, pathology, policies and procedures associated with the speciality/area of practice ensuring that the level of expertise can be utilised to deliver leadership within speciality / area of practice.
13. Management qualification or equivalent gained through experience and continuous professional development
14. Further education/evidence of Continuous Professional Development in area of speciality including study days/courses/post graduate qualification
15. The post holder will possess excellent team-working/leadership skills and have the ability to motivate others and work using own initiative
16. Excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills.
17. Effective time management skills
18. Working knowledge of basic information technology
It would be good if you also had
19. Relevant demonstrable midwifery/nursing experience
20. Presentation skills
21. Training and facilitation skills
22. Ability to work at strategic level
23. Car driver with a full, valid UK/EU/EEA licence
Looking to find out more?
If you’re looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you!
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Further Information
For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our .