# Community Midwife

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** NHS Highland
- **Location:** Caithness General Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Midwife
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £34,544 - £43,039
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-16T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-31T10:32:37.585Z
- **Source information URL:** https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=267439
- **Application URL:** https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/DecideInternalExternal/DecideInternalExternal?JobId=267439
- **Employer website:** https://www.nhshighland.scot.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job details

- Job reference: 257029
- Salary: Band 5 (£34,544 - £43,039)
- Job closing date: 16/09/2026
- Job Type: Nursing and Midwifery
- Location: Caithness General Hospital
- Employment type: Permanent
- Hours Per Week: 36
- Job posted date: 31/08/2026
- Employer (NHS Board): NHS Highland
- Department: Midwifery

The Caithness Integrated Midwifery Team are looking for a midwife keen to experience remote and rural midwifery practice as part of our small, friendly CMU. The post offers an exciting opportunity for a newly qualified graduate midwife, keen to practice midwife-led care and to develop skills as an autonomous practitioner in remote and rural practice.

The midwifery team provide maternity services within the community midwifery unit based in Caithness General Hospital, and across the Caithness and North Sutherland area. The service supports the choice of local birth in a low risk environment, facilitates approximately 15 births annually and supports around 120 pregnant people throughout their pregnancy and postnatal journey.

To support the care and transfer of higher risk pregnancies and sick neonates the midwifery team work closely with NHS Highland Obstetric, Midwifery and Neonatal Maternity Unit team based in Raigmore Hospital, Inverness (approx 110 miles away). The midwifery team work flexibly to provide a 24/7 service with an on call provision. A full and current driving licence, access to a car and work insurance is essential for this post.

The Community Midwifery Unit is situated in Wick, the most northerly town on the East coast and within the beautiful county of Caithness with stunning scenery and dramatic coastlines. The town of Wick has a vibrant local community with many amenities including a supermarket, cafes, restaurants, takeaways, hotels and churches. There is a local High School in Wick and also in the nearby town of Thurso where there is also a college. The area provides the opportunity to enjoy village life, explore the rural lochs and both sandy and rocky beaches. There is the opportunity to partake in wild swimming or surfing or to relax and watch the local wildlife including seals, puffins, deer, otters and orca. The city of Inverness is a 2 hour drive where you will find travel links and many shops and hotels.

Becoming part of this friendly and co-operative team will offer you work in a stunning location and embrace the unique challenges and opportunities presented by rural practice.

### Informal enquiries to: Donna Firth, Midwifery Team Lead, email: donna.firth@nhs.scot or tel: 01955 880330

## Documents

- [Job Description (PDF, KB)](https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=1186166&JobId=267439)
- [Highland Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions of Employment (DOCX, KB)](https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=1186167&JobId=267439)

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