Preterm Birth Specialist Midwife Band 7
| Posting date: | 09 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 October 2025 |
| Location: | Brighton, BN2 5BE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9279-25-1912 |
Summary
Understand preterm pregnancy management options including the pros and cons of prophylactic vaginal progesterone or cervical cerclage procedures, services and support. To be responsible for the management of individualised care to a defined group of mothers and babies using the assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating process within a multidisciplinary framework. Facilitate midwife led clinics, face to face, telephone and online facilities as appropriate to enable collaborative multidisciplinary communication in clinical decision making and care planning. To be confident in communicating with professionals at all levels in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary care settings. Able to participate professionally when having challenging conversations or delivering unwelcome and often unexpected bad news in an informative and compassionate way. To act as an advocate for women, ensuring informed consent for any proposed intervention or treatment and encouraging women/birthing people to be partners in their own care, supporting them to make informed decisions which best suit them. Willing to be a non-medical prescriber and/or work within pre-defined Midwifery patient group directives (PGDs) and have knowledge of drug regimens and side effects. Able to have supportive multidisciplinary discussions relating to neonatal care of preterm babies including location of care and explanation of the immediate complications which can result from a baby being born pre-term. Ensuring women at risk of preterm birth are supported and able to have opportunities to discuss their wishes regarding ongoing treatment and resuscitation of their baby in the event of a preterm delivery, including potential tours of the neonatal unit and opportunity to speak with a consultant neonatologist. Be responsible for the data collection, audit and evaluation of the service, ensuring compliance with internal and external reporting mechanisms such as UHSussex governance meetings and CQC reporting. The Preterm Birth Midwife will work closely with neonates becoming part of an MDT reviewing and audit all cases of preterm births against the KPI's, feeding back learning and creating action plans. This role will support all the maternity services on different sites. A key priority of this role will be to work with the neonatal and obstetric team on improving preterm optimisation and implementation of the PERIPrem passport. This role is eligible for visa sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. Sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements set by UKVI, including the relevant skill and salary thresholds, and any role-specific criteria.