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Please note: the salary quoted is for full-time hours (37 hrs per week). For appointments to part-time hours, the salary will be pro-rata.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and experienced Midwifery Practice Education Lead to join our Clinical and Professional Development team. The post holder will support midwifery education and professional development across maternity services, including registered midwives, support workers, Midwifery, paramedic and pre and post registration students. You will provide strategic and professional leadership for midwifery education and practice development, ensuring highquality learning environments that support safe, effective and compassionate care for women, babies and families across our services.

Skills Include

Responsibility for designing and delivering education and development programmes as a major job responsibility
To enhance the quality of learning opportunities available to the midwifery workforce.
To develop local opportunities with our partners for inter professional learning within the Health Board area
To make a significant contribution supporting the identified education needs of midwifery workforce within the workplace
To increase the capacity of the Health Board area and other sectors to provide learning opportunities for pre-registration midwifery students.
Act as a visible professional role model, promoting reflective practice, professional accountability and compassionate leadership
Contribute to clinical governance, quality assurance, audit and service improvement related to education and practice

If you are a confident, enthusiastic and highly motivated individual who shares our desire to promote evidence-based practice and develop and maintain high standards of quality care then we would like to receive an application from you.

Interviews will be held on 21 April 2026

As from 1st April 2026, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reducing from 37 to 36 hours per week. Part time hours will be reduced pro-rata. However, there will be a corresponding increase in the hourly rate so that pay will not be affected.

Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check done than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a "regulated role", your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: .

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 website.

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 found.

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.

PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early***

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.

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