Preterm Birth Specialist Midwife
| Posting date: | 25 February 2026 |
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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: | 11 March 2026 |
| Location: | Brighton, BN2 5BE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9279-26-0276 |
Summary
Please note: This role does not meet the minimum criteria for visa sponsorship under the current UK immigration rules, which set specific salary and skill thresholds. As such, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. Applicants will therefore need to already have the right to work in the UK to be considered. We include this information at the outset to provide clarity and avoid unnecessary inconvenience for applicants. If you are applying using a Graduate visa as your right to work, you must have a minimum of 18 months remaining on your visa at time of application. 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.