Preceptorship Midwife Colchester/Ipswich

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, caring and 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 to demonstrate excellent organisational skills, the ability to prioritise your workload and a commitment to our Trust values.

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 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.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mollie Haskey Job title: Retention and Recruitment Midwife Email address:

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