Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Community Lead Midwife

The closing date is 19 September 2025

Job summary

We are pleased to announce an exciting new opportunity to join our dedicated midwifery team at Southend Hospital as one of our Community Lead Midwives.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest Trusts in the country. As a fully established, merged trust we are extremely proud of the maternity services across MSE. Our sites include Southend, Basildon and Broomfield Hospital and two Freestanding Midwifery Units.

Providing high quality patient care, a positive experience for both Women and their families and being an excellent, compassionate and respectful workforce is at the centre of our service.

Our maternity units are both modern and well equipped which helps contribute to development and progression of our midwives.

Facts/Achievements

One of the largest Trust's in the country serving a population of 1.2 million people.
Our Maternity units have around 12,000 births a year
Won the Management Award 2019 for our preceptorship programme at the London Maternity and Midwifery Festival
A number of midwives at MSE were awarded the CMO silver Award, which is the equivalent of a midwifery OBE
A supportive Occupational Health and Wellbeing Team to support all staff across MSE.

You could help shape the future of our midwives here at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

Main duties of the job

Have overall (24 hour rotational) continuing clinical responsibility for the Maternity service demonstrating excellent clinical, leadership and professional skills. The ability to develop effective programmes for antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care, and provide highly specialised advice to the multidisciplinary team. The post-holder will provide strong leadership support to the Maternity Matron / Head of Midwifery, and will demonstrate expert clinical skills, providing advice to staff and colleagues.

You will be working in collaboration with other multidisciplinary professionals enhancing and promoting the health and wellbeing of mothers and neonates in line with local and national standards relating to maternity care and referrals as appropriate.

About us

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust

Date posted

09 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 a year Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

390-WAC-SO-7330

Job locations

Southend

Prittlewell Chase

Westcliff-on-Sea

SS0 0RY

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details and information please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification.

We look forward to your application!

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details and information please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification.

We look forward to your application!

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Midwife
Leadership course or equivalent experience

Desirable

Master's Degree or evidence of studies at this level

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

Post-registration experience working at Senior/Managerial level
Current knowledge of national initiatives directly impacting on Directorate specialties
Demonstrable band 6 experience

Desirable

Experience of data analysis and audit evaluation
Experience of financial and budgetary management

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Midwife
Leadership course or equivalent experience

Desirable

Master's Degree or evidence of studies at this level

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

Post-registration experience working at Senior/Managerial level
Current knowledge of national initiatives directly impacting on Directorate specialties
Demonstrable band 6 experience

Desirable

Experience of data analysis and audit evaluation
Experience of financial and budgetary management

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Certificate of Sponsorship

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Southend

Prittlewell Chase

Westcliff-on-Sea

SS0 0RY

Employer's website

https://www.mse.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Southend

Prittlewell Chase

Westcliff-on-Sea

SS0 0RY

Employer's website

https://www.mse.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)