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Job overview

East Sussex Healthcare Trust is offering the opportunity to join our midwifery team and is seeking an enthusiastic midwives who are passionate about promoting individualised care.  Eastbourne 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. A perfect place to work!

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a midwife to join our Community team, providing care to pregnant people within Eastbourne and the surrounding areas including Polegate, Hailsham and Seaford. The community team is based out of our stand alone midwifery unit and you will have the opportunity to work in a variety of settings. As a community team we provide on calls to cover the standalone midwifery unit and homebirths across the East Sussex countryside, as well as at our consultant led unit, based on the Hastings site. 
We are a tight knit team working closely together to provide women and their families with high quality, evidence based midwifery care. You will need to be a highly motivated team player committed to improving and developing the service. The role will include home visits and therefore own transport is also essential. 

Excellent communication skills and the ability to work confidently and autonomously within the team is essential, you will gain experience in all aspects of midwifery care.  There is an on call provision, so flexibility is essential.

Working for our organisation

We are proud to provide ‘Outstanding’ care and be a great place to work

We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people’s own homes.

In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated ‘Outstanding’. Eastbourne DGH rated ‘Good’.

In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious ‘Building for our Future’ programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop, and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.