Professional Midwifery Advocate
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share
- Posted
- 22/09/2026
- Closes
- 06/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role involves establishing and working within a new Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) Team across University Hospitals Sussex. The successful candidate will provide visible support in clinical areas through restorative conversations, debriefs, and compassionate leadership. Key responsibilities include delivering restorative clinical supervision, supporting colleagues through complex cases, and contributing to quality improvement initiatives. This three-year fixed-term opportunity aims to strengthen professional midwifery advocacy, promote staff wellbeing, and drive service improvement.
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife with active NMC PIN
- Professional Midwifery Advocate
- Significant post reg experience in range of clinical settings/roles
- Recent experience of working in Perinatal Services
- Knowledge of Trauma Informed Care approaches
- Understanding of professional and current issues in maternity and neonatal services
Desirable criteria
- De-briefing/Coaching/Restorative training or equivalent experience
- Leadership/Management training or equivalent experience
- Experience of Quality Improvement
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
- Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role)
- Registered Midwife with active NMC PIN
- Professional Midwifery Advocate
- Significant post reg experience in range of clinical settings/roles
- Recent experience of working in Perinatal Services
- Knowledge of Trauma Informed Care approaches
- Understanding of professional and current issues in maternity and neonatal services
- De-briefing/Coaching/Restorative training or equivalent experience
- Leadership/Management training or equivalent experience
- Experience of Quality Improvement
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
- Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role)
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)
Professional Midwifery Advocate
The closing date is 06 October 2026
Job summary
As part of our commitment to supporting staff and strengthening maternity services ahead of the Independent Maternity Review, we are establishing a new Professional Midwifery Advocate (PMA) Team across University Hospitals Sussex.
We are recruiting PMAs across UHSussex, with one post aligned to each site: Princess Royal Hospital (PRH), Royal Sussex County Hospital (RSCH), Worthing Hospital (WH) and St Richard's Hospital (SRH).
Each PMA will have a designated site base while working collaboratively across the Trust under the leadership of the Professional Perinatal Advocate (PPA) Lead, delivering a consistent restorative approach across maternity and neonatal services.
These newly created roles will provide visible support in clinical areas through restorative conversations, hot debriefs, real-time support and compassionate leadership, helping colleagues navigate a period of learning, transformation and cultural development.
Successful candidates will strengthen Professional Midwifery Advocacy through case management, professional development, training and embedding best practice within the A-EQUIP framework.
The PMA team will help ensure accessible advocacy support, promoting staff wellbeing, learning, service improvement and a resi
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