Continuity Team Midwife - Ivy Team

Job 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.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, compassionate, and highly motivated midwife to join our continuity team. This is an exciting opportunity for a practitioner who is passionate about delivering high-quality, personalised, relationship-based care to a diverse and often vulnerable caseload.

The post holder will work within a continuity of carer model, supporting pregnant people and families throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods. You will provide care across a range of settings, including at home, in our birth centre and within the obstetric unit, ensuring safe and seamless care pathways.You will also provide support within the acute unit as required during periods of escalation.

This role is ideal for a midwife committed to equity, inclusion, enhanced continuity, and supporting people with additional needs or complexities.

A full UK driving license is required and ability to travel independently between sites in timely manner.

Main duties of the job

You will hold a dedicated caseload and provide personalised continuity of care to individuals planning to birth at home as well as those with a range of social, emotional or medical vulnerabilities. Your caseload will include, but is not limited to:

• Pregnant people planning homebirth
• Individuals requiring interpreter support
• Asylum seekers or refugees
• Those who have experienced a previous stillbirth
• Families with involvement from children's services
• Pregnant people with complex psychosocial circumstances
• Individuals with severe or enduring mental health needs

You will build trusting relationships that enhance safety, promote choice, and support positive birth experiences--particularly for groups who may experience barriers accessing maternity care.

We are seeking a midwife who is:

• Passionate about relationship-based continuity models
• Committed to personalised care, informed choice, and equity
• Confident supporting homebirths and community-based care
• Skilled in providing care to families with complex social, emotional or mental health needs
• Trauma-informed and culturally sensitive in their approach
• Keen to work collaboratively within a supportive multidisciplinary environment
• Flexible and responsive to the needs of the caseload
• Enthusiastic about improving outcomes for underserved communities
• Compassionate, adaptable and motivated by making a meaningful difference
• Able to support the acute unit during escalation with confidence and professionalism

About us

A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto-enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to onsite nurseries. staff restaurants and accommodation.

In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme. Onsite parking is available from only £50 a year.

There has never been a better time to join East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, submit your application today.

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Employer details

Employer name

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Conquest Hospital

The Ridge

Hastings

TN37 7RD

Employer's website

http://jobs.esht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Conquest Hospital

The Ridge

Hastings

TN37 7RD

Employer's website

http://jobs.esht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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