Preceptorship Midwife Colchester/Ipswich | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£32,073 - £39,043 per annum pro rata
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Colchester/Ipswich, CO4 5JL
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	9 Oct 2026
Closing date:	8 Nov 2026

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Summary

Are you a newly qualified midwife who has qualified within the last 12 months, or a student midwife due to qualify by January 2027? If you are motivated,caringand compassionate, we would love to hear from you!

We are recruiting Band 5 midwives to join our maternity teams at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) and develop their careers through our Preceptorship Programme.

You will need todemonstrateexcellent organisational skills, the ability to prioritise your workload and a commitment to our Trust values.

Applications are welcome from all eligible newly qualified and student midwives, including those who have trained outside ESNEFT. Please include the hospital or maternity service where you undertook your trainingwithin your application.

This will be a competitive recruitment process, so please ensure your application clearlydemonstrateshow you meet the person specification. We would love to hear, in your own words, what motivates you to become a midwife at ESNEFT and what you would bring to our team, using examples from your training and experience.

Recruitment is primarily for Colchester Hospital. However, contracts will be cross-site, and you maybe requiredto work at Ipswich Hospital according to service needsand followingappropriate orientation.

Please be advised we will close the advert earlier if sufficient amount of applications are received.

Practical interview will be 12th & 13th November, second stage 16th & 17th November 2026

You will work across all areas on maternity rotating through antenatal settings, postnatal/antenatal ward, delivery suite/birthing unit, triage/DAU and community.

You will be responsible for co-ordinating, planning, organising and directing activities to ensure optimum care is achieved and continued learning is created and maintained.

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 thatTime Mattersto 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 bringwhat’swidely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

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

This advert closes on Sunday 18 Oct 2026

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