Job summary
Are you an experienced Midwife with advanced clinical skills? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

This is an exciting time to join our team. We are continuing to implement the principles outlined within 'Better Births', so continuity of carer is high on our agenda.

As the Practice Development Midwife you will provide stable guidance and advice to the entire team in the development of skills around the department, whilst ensuring the statutory training is provided to staff throughout the year.

This is permanent, part time post for 22.5 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

• Participates in the process of staff development and review, completes appraisals and absence management as required.
• Ensures the maintenance of good relationships across all disciplines within and beyond the trust, by ensuring clear and timely lines of communication are maintained.
• Exercising of leadership to achieve high staff morale by fostering good relationships and communications between all groups and grades. Be able to recognise issues that may require disciplinary action and liaise with and support the Senior Midwifery team with development of personal improvement plans and staff support relating to education where necessary.
• Ensures that a safe environment is maintained at all times. Making effort to secure their own safety and that of service users, staff as well as the general public.
• Reporting accidents / incidents to service users, relatives or staff to Governance and Senior Midwifery Team and completing the appropriate form. Supports the maternity / trust Risk Management Strategy
• Demonstrates high levels of clinical decision making skills

About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

Find out about living and working here - Apply through our website

Details
Date posted: 15 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year Per annum pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 432-HR513-26
Job locations: Colchester Hospital, Colchester, CO4 5JL, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role, please see attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Extensive experience at band 6 or above
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate maternity care
• Experience in teaching, mentoring, assessment and clinical supervision
• Experience in group teaching/presentations to peers and other professionals.
• Experience of acting as a mentor to both qualified and students, encouraging evidence based practice
• Able to identify opportunities to develop needs and to change existing practice
• Ability to impart unwelcome news to staff, .e.g. where performance targets have not been met

Desirable

• Experience in developing new initiatives

Qualifications
Essential

• NMC Registered Midwife
• Mentorship in practice/practice supervisor/assessor
• Degree in midwifery or equivalent experience
• Evidence of further study and development of professional and academic skills

Desirable

• Teaching or assessing qualification
• PMA
• Leadership/management qualification
• Masters

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
Employer details: East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Address: Colchester Hospital, Colchester, CO4 5JL, United Kingdom. Employer's website: https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/
For questions about the job, contact: Education and Practice Development Lead Midwife, Zoe Gentry, Zoe.Gentry@esneft.nhs.uk