Staff Midwife

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Full & Part-time hours considered, fixed term contracts until September 2025.

Raigmore Hospital provides midwifery, obstetric and neonatal care to pregnant women and their families living in the Scottish Highlands. It covers a wide rural area of 12500 square miles and has approx 1800 births a year.

The post holder will be a rotational midwife within the Unit including Triage, Day Assessment Unit, Antenatal Clinics, Antenatal inpatient ward, intrapartum, Postnatal and High dependency area.

The successful candidate must be flexible in their approach, be a good team player and have excellent time management skills. Previous experience is desirable but not essential. Candidates need to be eligible to apply for a B6 post and completed Flying Start programme.

The city of Inverness is on Scotland’s North East coast; it is the largest city in the Scottish Highlands and has excellent road and rail links with Inverness airport having direct rail links to it. Inverness attracts visitors from all over the world. There are many beauty spots perfect for wild swimming, walks, mountain biking, and hill walking for outdoor enthusiasts. The Highlands offer the perfect work/life balance.

For informal enquiries please contact Sharon Graham, Lead Midwife at Sharon.graham3@nhs.scot.

If you wish to apply for this post on a secondment basis, please complete the secondment consent form below and return to nhshighland.recruitment@nhs.scot, in addition to completing a full application for the post.

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NHS Highland is geographically the largest of the 14 regional boards of NHS Scotland, covering an area of 12,500 square miles, across Highland and Argyll & Bute.

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NHS Scotland is reducing their full time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Recruiting Board.