Professional Lead Midwife

NHS Scotland; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Scotland is seeking a highly experienced Midwifery Professional Lead to provide strategic leadership and expert advice within Healthcare Improvement Scotland. This role involves ensuring high-quality care delivery and oversight of midwifery standards across the organization while engaging with various partners in the health sector. Candidates must have senior leadership experience and active registration as a Midwife.

Qualifications

• Experience in senior leadership role providing oversight.
• Knowledge of Scottish health and social care systems.
• Ability to engage with professional networks and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic professional leadership across the organization.
• Deliver expert midwifery advice and support programs of work.
• Ensure compliance with professional standards within HIS.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

Current active registration as a Midwife

Job description

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Scotland – hybrid working will apply for the foreseeable future with travel throughout Scotland as required

Visible, active clinical and professional engagement is central to the success of our work and will support the delivery of clinically effective, high quality, safe care to people and their families.

Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) is seeking a highly experienced Midwifery Professional Lead to provide senior level strategic professional leadership and high-level expert advice across the organisation and externally with partners in NHS Boards, Education and Professional and Regulatory bodies. The post holder will be directly responsible to the Executive Director of Nursing and Integrated Care.

As a key member of the Nursing and Integrated Care Senior Management Team, NMAHP Leadership and Advisory Group, and Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s Professional and Clinical Leadership group you will be a highly visible, proactive and accessible midwifery leader, acting as a role model and clinical resource providing professional leadership for Midwives across the organisation and to provide expert midwifery advice across HIS programmes of work in order that all appropriate professional standards are met within HIS. You will have significant experience of working in a complex, emergence environment ensuring that within HIS you are able to provide oversight and guidance, as well as constructive challenge in relation to the strategic planning and delivery of programmes of Midwifery Improvement and Assurance at national level.

Candidates must hold current active registration as a Midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and have recent experience of working in a senior leadership role providing professional and clinical oversight and guidance in relation to strategic planning and delivery of care. Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills will be fundamental to success in this role, as well as the ability to build upon current professional and clinical networks. In addition, candidates will have experience and knowledge of Scottish health and social care systems, structures and policies.

Any individual wishing to pursue this opportunity as a secondment must first seek the support of their line manager.

This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in a national improvement initiative.

For an informal discussion about this post please contact Mhairi Hastings, Interim Director of Nursing and Integrated Care at Healthcare Improvement Scotland, on [emailprotected] .

Closing Date: Thursday 03 July 2025 at midnight

It is anticipated that interviews will be held via MS Teams on Friday 11 July 2025