We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for an experienced Band 6 Midwife to join our Antenatal Outpatient Services within NHS Fife.
NHS Fife Maternity Services is a modern, progressive, and thriving unit supporting approximately 3,000 births per year. Our service spans:
Outpatient and community maternity care, comprising: high-risk obstetric clinics at Queen Margaret Hospital and Victoria Hospital, community midwifery teams across three sites, Daycare services across two sites, a Fetal Medicine Team, Drug Liaison Team, Family Liaison Team (as part of our Vulnerable in Pregnancy Service) and Birth at Home Team.
Our inpatient service includes: our modern Consultant Led Unit, an alongside Midwife-Led Unit, a dedicated Planned Caesarean Section team, an Induction of Labour Suite and our Maternity Assessment unit
This post is based within our Antenatal Outpatient Services, offering a varied and rewarding role across a wide range of settings.
This role offers the opportunity to develop skills across both routine and complex maternity care, contributing to a highly responsive and person-centred outpatient service.
Multidisciplinary Working
We are proud of our strong, collaborative relationships with our obstetric colleagues and the wider multidisciplinary team.
Midwives within our service are:
Actively encouraged to contribute to service development and improvement
Supported to participate in innovation and quality improvement initiatives
Empowered to shape the future of antenatal care within NHS Fife
We are committed to education and development, offering:
Specialist midwifery education, coordinated by our lead midwife for Education, offering a variety of training opportunities to ensure ongoing CPD.
Practice Assessor and Supervisor roles for student midwives, supported by our PEF.
Our Achievements
In partnership with Held In Our Hearts, we were proud to be RCM Finalists 2025 in the Outstanding Achievement in Bereavement Care category.
What We’re Looking For
We are seeking a midwife who is:
An NMC Registered Midwife, educated to degree level
Passionate about woman- and family-centred care
A strong communicator and team player
Motivated to lead, support, and develop both people and services
Why Join NHS Fife?
We are proud of our supportive culture and commitment to staff wellbeing and development:
Access to a highly successful in-house leadership programme
Opportunities for leadership courses and professional development
Encouragement to engage in external networking and learning opportunities
Flexible working and family-friendly policies
Our Head of Midwifery was an RCM National Award finalist (2021) for dedication to staff wellbeingreflecting our commitment to our teams.
Additional Information
Full time post, part-time hours will be considered.
PVG Scheme membership required
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK
NHS Fife is committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion
Informal Enquiries; For further information, please contact: Lianne Hood, ANC manager 01592 729080/01383 723733
Join Us
Our outpatient service is dynamic, evolving, and central to the maternity journey in NHS Fife.
Women and families are at the heart of everything we docome and help us continue to enhance and deliver outstanding antenatal care.
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
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.
We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
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 Immigrations 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 GOV.UK websitehere.
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 licenced 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 sponsoredBEFORE submitting your application form.
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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.
