Senior Charge Midwife AA

Job Summary

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.

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.

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.

As from 1/4/2026, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reducing from 37 to 36 hours per week. Part time hours will be reduced pro-rata. Please note that the pay scale in this advert will not be changing as a result.

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.

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 Immigration 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  website here.

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 licensed 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 sponsored BEFORE 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.

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