Advert details:
Salary: Band 7 (£52,845 - £61,466)
Job closing date: 24/11/2026
Job Type: Nursing and Midwifery
Location: Perth Royal Infirmary
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 36
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Tayside
Department: Perth Community Midwifery Unit

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.

The post holder will have responsibility for the day-to-day management of the service, including supporting the process of care quality assurance to the wider NHS Tayside maternity service, contributing to local and service wide reviews, managing the performance and attendance of the team and ensuring an environment of continual improvement and reflective practice.

The Perth CMU is a freestanding Midwife Led Birth Unit, situated within Perth Royal Infirmary. The obstetric Unit is situated 20 miles away within Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. The Perth CMU is the link unit and hub for all community based care provision facilitated by the maternity services in Tayside, for women and families living within the Perth and Kinross area.

We are looking for a strong leader who can guide the teams through change and use innovative approaches to realise the ambitions of Scotland’s 5 year forward plan for maternity and neonatal services (Best Start). The successful applicants will work closely with maternity, neonatal and other colleagues from across NHS Tayside, our Health and Social Care and 3 rd sector partnership agencies, and the women and families who use our service.

The core hours of work are 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday with twice per month contribution to the NHS Tayside Women’s Coordinator rota (Monday-Sunday support), based within the Ninewells site.

We want to hear from you if you are ready for an exciting challenge, have the qualities needed and wish to embrace this career development opportunity.

Informal enquiries to Stephanie Gardiner, Senior Midwife, stephanie.gardiner@nhs.scot

Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.

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