Midwife - Transitional Care Unit

Job reference: 262225
Salary: Band 6 (£43,231 - £52,679)
Job closing date: 04/11/2026
Job Type: Nursing and Midwifery
Location: University Hospital Wishaw
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 17.25
Job posted date: 21/10/2026
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Lanarkshire
Department: Neonatal

About The Organisation
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

The Role
The postholder will assist the Senior Charge Midwife to deliver high quality evidence based woman and baby centred care. S/he will be involved in providing both individualised patient care and in planning, implementing and evaluating clinical care within all areas of the maternity service, ensuring compliance with NHS Lanarkshire's policy and procedures and maintaining statutory requirements in accordance with the NMC. To provide safe, effective centred person care

In this key role, you will:

• Planning, assessing, developing, implementing and evaluating planned programmes of care
• Being an advocate for women and their families and promoting normality throughout pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period
• Provide a health education role for women their partners and extended families
• Setting and maintaining standards of care

What You'll Bring:

• Registered Midwife with valid NMC Registration
• Educated to/working towards/operating at Degree Level
• Post graduate expertise within speciality / area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently.
• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality / area of practice.

What we Offer

• Annual Leave - 35 days including public holidays
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• NHS discounts and more.

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent - regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
*Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children's settings.

For informal discussion, please contact Sharon Oosterbosch, Neonatal Senior Nurse, Woman's Services on Sharon.Oosterbosch@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
Recruitment queries: Gemma Irwin, Recruitment Administrator on Gemma.Irwin@Lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Supporting Documents: Job Description (DOCX) and Person Specification (DOCX) are available on the advert page.