Continuity Team Midwife - Ivy Team | East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 11 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 11 July 2025 |
| Location: | Hastings, TN37 7RD |
| Company: | ESHT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7152183/374-LB5184 |
Summary
East Sussex Healthcare Trust is offering the opportunity to join our Continuity of Carer Ivy midwifery team and is seeking enthusiastic midwives, passionate about promoting continuity and providing homebirths. Eastbourne and Hastings is on the South East Coast of England with its beautiful seaside towns and villages, a stones through away from the beautiful countryside of the South Downs and Kent. A perfect place to work.
The post holder needs to be committed and passionate in providing continuity of care with a specialist interest in providing personalised care to a caseload of patients planning to birth at home, pregnant people with the need for an interpreter, asylum seekers, or refugees, those that have experienced a previous still birth and pregnant people with children’s services involvement or severe mental health needs. You will provide continuity during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period to patients that may choose or be recommended to give birth at home, in the birth centre or in an obstetric setting.
We are proud to provide ‘Outstanding’ care and be a great place to work
We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people’s own homes.
In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated ‘Outstanding’. Eastbourne DGH rated ‘Good’.
In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious ‘Building for our Future’ programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.
Please refer to the job description attached.
If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.
This advert closes on Wednesday 25 Jun 2025
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