NHS Scotland
Senior Midwife - Child protection (Maternity Services) AA
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Senior Midwife - Child Protection
We currently have a permanent vacancy for a senior midwife to lead on the development and implementation of safe child protection and wellbeing systems in all maternity services within NHS Fife.
Role Responsibilities
- Provide professional specialist advice and clinical case supervision to health staff within the maternity services in relation to child protection issues in line with local and national guidance.
- Work in partnership with multidisciplinary teams to ensure delivery of child-focused outcomes.
- Offer accessible expert advice and support to individual cases and promote evidence-based practice in child protection.
- Ensure that child protection health services are delivered effectively, efficiently, and safely within maternity services.
- Develop systems to maintain and develop the quality of child protection practice in line with clinical governance and risk assessment frameworks.
Qualifications
- NMC registered midwife, educated to degree level.
- Excellent team working skills with effective communication skills.
- Ability to provide leadership and work autonomously.
- In-depth knowledge of Child Protection.
About Us
- We are a dynamic, progressive, and friendly team.
- The unit is modern and progressive with approximately 3,200 births per year.
- Services include outpatient and community services, a complex care Consultant Unit, and an alongside Midwife Led Unit.
- We are developing services in line with Best Start recommendations, focusing on increasing our rates of continuity of carer.
- We already have teams established for birth at home, vulnerable in pregnancy, infant nutrition, and child protection.
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Professional Development
- We will encourage your professional development through 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.
Application Information
- For informal enquiries, please contact Roisin Gormley or Pamela Galloway on 01592 643355 ext 29941.
- A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme prior to appointment.
Eligibility to Work in the UK
- 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.
- NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK as part of the pre-employment checks.
- 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.
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Equality and Diversity
- 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.
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