Preceptorship Midwife Colchester/Ipswich | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust; Ipswich, Colchester; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS health service provider is seeking Band 5 Midwives to join their Maternity teams in Ipswich and Colchester. This role requires a Student Midwife qualifying in 2025/2026, exhibiting excellent organisational skills and a compassionate approach. Successful candidates will coordinate, plan, and provide care across various maternity settings. The Trust offers a generous benefits package, including training opportunities and a supportive environment for career growth.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Unsocial hours payments

27 days annual leave (pro rata)

Access to NHS discounts

Staff Health and Wellbeing programme

Qualifications

• Demonstrate excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workload.
• Must be a student midwife with placement at ESNEFT.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinating, planning, organising and directing activities for optimum care.
• Working across all areas of maternity including antenatal and postnatal settings.

Skills

Excellent organisational skills

Ability to prioritise workload

Caring and compassionate personality

Education

Student Midwife qualifying in 2025/2026

Job description

Are you a Student Midwife qualifying in 2025/2026?

Are you a highly motivated person with a caring and compassionate personality?

If you answered 'yes' to any of the above, we'd love to hear from you!

We are looking for Band 5 Midwives to come and join our fantastic Maternity teams at ESNEFT.

You must be able to demonstrate excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workload.

Only students with ESNEFT placement to apply.

We are recruiting for both Ipswich and Colchester Hospital. You may be offered a job at the site you did not train in.

Please be advised we will close the advert earlier if sufficient amount of applications are received.

Practical interview will be 7th & 8th January, second stage 14th & 15th January 2026.

You will work across all areas on maternity rotating through antenatal settings, postnatal/antenatal ward, delivery suite/birthing unit, triage/DAU and community.

You will be responsible for co-ordinating, planning, organising and directing activities to ensure optimum care is achieved and continued learning is created and maintained.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bringwhat’swidely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

This advert closes on Monday 22 Dec 2025