# Practice Development Midwife

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Colchester
- **Region:** East of England
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Midwife
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 Per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-23T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-09T08:21:21.150Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Colchester/East_Suffolk_North_Essex_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Maternity/Maternity-v8142622
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8142622?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.esneft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

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

### Detailed job description and main 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

## Documents

- [jd and ps (docx, 51.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10441493)
- [staff networks (pdf, 230.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2724)
- [dbs information (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1262)
- [apprenticeship handbook (pdf, 373.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2499)
- [esneft values and behaviours (pdf, 74.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2146)
- [value of joining nhs pension (pdf, 125.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2404)

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