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Senior Charge Midwife
The Balfour – Maternity Unit
Band 7 £42,186 - £49,160 including Distant Islands Allowance per annum
Full Time 37.5 hours per week
Permanent
Relocation Assistant may be available*
NHS Orkney is looking for a flexible, enthusiastic Senior Charge Midwife to join our Integrated Midwifery team which was recently awarded the “Midwife Award” at the Scottish Health awards 2021.
As the Senior Charge Midwife (SCM) you will carry out 24 hour continuing responsibility for the service and you will provide clinical leadership to the midwifery team.
For this post, we are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic SCM, with a desire to develop the service and the ability to inspire others. You will have the opportunity to embrace the challenges that this leadership and management role brings and to support the team in providing safe, effective and high quality clinical care for women and their families in line with Best Start.
Our Maternity Service and Midwife Led Unit is based from The Balfour and provides the whole range of Maternity care in both Community and hospital settings including fertility, antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal, triage/day care, early pregnancy assessment and midwife sonography services.
Our model also includes close partnership working with local Obstetricians which enables women to access some aspects of consultant led care & interventions locally. Tertiary Obstetric care is predominantly provided in NHS Grampian. We have close working relationships with the multidisciplinary team and work collaboratively with a wide range of teams & services.
NHS Orkney is working hard to be the best remote and rural care provider in the UK, do you want to play a part in helping us achieve our vision?
With views as far as the eyes can see, stunning beaches and miles-upon-miles of coastline, you’ll always find your own space in Orkney. Lying off the northern coast of Scotland, between John O’Groats and the Shetland Isles, these enchanting islands await you. With this, it is no surprise that Orkney has been voted the best place to live in Scotland for eight years running.
Orkney is an archipelago of 70 beautiful islands, of which 17 are inhabited. As a genuinely wonderful place to live, Orkney offers unique wildlife, amazing scenery, and real opportunity to experience a wide range of cultural and sporting activities. There is something for everyone; state-of-the-art leisure facilities, various clubs and societies, and an excellent education system creates our strong community spirit.
NHS Orkney’s hospital and healthcare facility, The Balfour, opened in 2019 and is transforming the way healthcare is delivered. With inpatient wards, an emergency department, outpatients, diagnostic services, Dentistry, two GP practices and the Scottish Ambulance Service all under one roof, there are excellent opportunities for close multidisciplinary working to benefit our patients. We are now working towards further investment in our outer island facilities. These developments allow us to drive forward service improvement with confidence.
If you’re enthused by what we have to offer, share our vision, and believe you can contribute to NHS Orkney, we would be thrilled to hear from you.
For further information on this post, please contact Michelle Mackie, Lead Midwife, on 07774640602 and email michelle.mackie@nhs.scot
This post is subject to a Protecting-Vulnerable-Groups Scheme Record check .
A full driving licence is essential to the role.
*An excellent relocation package of up to £8,000 is available depending on eligibility. Distant Islands Allowance, currently £1,314 pro rata per annum, is also included into the NHS Orkney Salary.
A Recruitment Pack containing a Job Description and Person Specification is available to download below.