Safeguarding Midwife

NHS Scotland

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NHS Ayrshire and Arran are one of 14 territorial NHS Boards within NHS Scotland.

In support of our core purpose of Working together to achieve the healthiest life possible for everyone in Ayrshire and Arran, we are committed to a culture that is Caring, Safe, and Respectful. You will be required to work collaboratively in a safe, caring and respectful way.

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We are seeking an experienced and motivated Safeguarding Midwife to join our integrated maternity service, delivering specialist midwifery and safeguarding expertise for women with socially complex needs across Ayrshire. You will work as a key contributor within the wider multi-agency safeguarding network, providing high‑quality assessment, care planning and coordinated intervention to promote the safety and wellbeing of mothers, unborn babies and infants.

This role operates within a robust governance framework and contributes directly to the public protection responsibilities of NHS Ayrshire & Arran, including accountability to the three locality Child Protection Committees in North, South and East Ayrshire.

28.8 hours per week over 4 days working Mon-Fri.

A UK driving licence is essential for this role.

• Provide autonomous midwifery care and comprehensive safeguarding assessment for women with socially complex needs from early pregnancy to the postnatal period.
• Lead on risk analysis, information synthesis and contribution to multi-agency care plans, including participation in Child Protection Planning Meetings and pre-birth GIRFEC groups.
• Respond to police concern reports, late referrals and emerging wellbeing concerns, ensuring timely and proportionate safeguarding actions.
• Manage and contribute to cases involving vulnerable adults and high-risk domestic abuse at MARAC level, offering expert professional judgement and coordinated safety planning.
• Provide specialist advice to midwives, social work colleagues and wider multi-agency partners, supporting high-quality decision-making across complex and emotionally demanding scenarios.
• Deliver continuity of carer in alignment with the Best Start initiative, ensuring trauma-informed, person-centred, safe and effective care pathways.
• Contribute to service development, learning reviews, audit and quality improvement, strengthening the safeguarding culture and clinical governance standards.
• Provide learning, supervision and support to colleagues and students, helping embed contemporary safeguarding and midwifery practice.

• NMC Registered Midwife.
• Educated to degree level.
• Post graduate qualification in Child Protection or demonstrable evidence of equivalent work-based experience demonstrating expert knowledge of child protection policies and guidelines within Scotland.
• Demonstrates effective team working.
• Proficient in Microsoft software packages e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams
• Exceptional time management skills.

If you want to find out more about the role, please contact Siobhan Reid SCM for Safeguarding

Please note that we anticipate a high level of…