Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
Band 5: £32,073
Do you want to work in an organisation that values you as an individual, in a team that provides multi-disciplinary support, encourages your development, and values your contribution? If so, come and join our fantastic team.
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to be able to facilitate approximately 5000 births per year. As a Trust, we are lucky to have standalone birth centres, co-located units, and home birth options. This is a really is an exciting time to come and work for Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust as we move forward with our future visions.
Following your successful appointment, you will be welcomed by the Midwifery Preceptorship Lead and enrolled onto Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust's tailored Midwifery Preceptorship Programme. Designed in line with the NHS England National Preceptorship Framework, the programme provides a structured and supportive transition from student midwife to confident, autonomous registered practitioner.
Throughout the programme, you will receive dedicated professional, clinical and pastoral support to help consolidate your knowledge, skills and confidence, enabling you to develop safe, effective and compassionate practice within a supportive learning environment.
Portsmouth's Maternity Service offers exposure to a wide range of specialist midwifery roles and pathways, supported by strong multidisciplinary working and close links with our Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). This provides valuable opportunities to develop expertise in the management of complex maternity and neonatal care, broaden clinical experience, and strengthen the foundations for future career progression.
On completion of the preceptorship programme, support continues through our Beyond Preceptorship Programme. This phase focuses on ongoing wellbeing and pastoral support, reflective practice, career aspirations, and professional development, helping midwives to further enhance their skills, explore specialist interests, and progress within their chosen career pathway.
We are a forward-thinking and innovative Trust, committed to developing and encouraging their personnel to progress within their career. As a thank you for the hard work and dedication of our staff, we offer an excellent benefits package and just a few of those benefits include:
Interviews will take place the w/c 21st September and will consist of clinical scenarios and a panel interview.
Please note this role is only open to Newly Qualified Midwife applicants.
For full details of the job role please see attached Job description
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The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust is the first NHS trust on the English mainland to provide community, mental health and acute hospital services. We work with health and social care partners in Somerset to ensure that we deliver outstanding services that meet the needs of our population, and this was highlighted at the Health Service Journal Awards 2021, where we were awarded Mental Health Trust of the Year.
Our trust was formed on 1 April 2020 when Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust merged, bringing together innovative and successful teams who have a track record of providing community and mental health services across the whole of Somerset and acute hospital services in the north, west and centre of the county and beyond.
We are privileged to work with over 9,000 colleagues who deliver or support our patient services. From therapists to nurses, doctors, researchers, scientists, porters, cleaners, kitchen staff, accountants, those who teach the next generation of clinicians and the receptionists who welcome our patients, the contribution of all our colleagues is invaluable.
Working together we provide services from the cradle to the grave, including:
• Services delivered in your own home such as Somerset’s Rapid Response service that cares for patients to support them during a period of crisis and avoided over 1,000 patients going to hospital in its first year
• Primary care from three GP practices
• A range of services from 13 community hospital including outpatient and diagnostic services, 190 inpatient beds and seven Minor Injuries Units.
• A range of specialist mental health services
• Specialist healthcare for adults with learning disabilities
• Community dental health services
• Regional, specialist and hospital services from Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton including medical and surgical care, maternity services and cancer treatment services
