Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our friendly, committed community midwifery bookings team based at Herts and Essex Hospital and surrounding areas. 

We are looking to appoint highly motivated and enthusiastic midwives who are able to demonstrate that they are a team player, with excellent communication skills and a genuine passion for midwifery.

We are looking for midwives that will put women and their families first and deliver a safe quality service, ensuring The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust is the preferred place of birth as well as the preferred place of employment.

All staff who are employed by PAH will have an additional fringe London Weighting payment added to their salary 

Main duties of the job

An opportunity to work within the community setting as part of a maternity bookings team for out of area women and birthing people, providing high quality, individualised and woman centred care in the antenatal period. 

Within the community, you will be required to do on calls to support the homebirth service.  This is an excellent opportunity for a midwife to develop skills, knowledge and experience within the community setting. Full induction and support will be provided.

Working for our organisation

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.