Band 3 Maternity Care Support Worker - Fixed Term

Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust; Romford; Vor Ort; GBP 21.000 - 24.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Band 3 Maternity Care Support Worker on a fixed-term basis for 12 months to support midwives, nurses and doctors across the maternity unit.

The role covers ante-natal, delivery and postnatal care in theatres, clinics and in-patient wards, requiring compassion, numeracy and literacy, with a flexible approach to working across areas as part of the multi-disciplinary team.

Qualifikationen

• Previous experience in the care industry.
• Good standard of numeracy and literacy.
• Flexible approach to working across maternity areas.

Aufgaben

• Assist in providing care to women and babies ante-natal, during delivery, and post-natal.
• Support midwives, nurses, nursery nurses and doctors as part of the maternity team.
• Undertake routine clerical duties to keep the unit running smoothly.

Kenntnisse

Care experience

Numeracy

Literacy

Public interaction

Jobbeschreibung

Band 3 Maternity Care Support Worker - Fixed Term

Company:

Company: Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

A Vacancy at Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.

BHRUT maternity department is looking to recruit an enthusiastic 2x Fixed term band 3 maternity support workers with previous experience in the care industry. You will be supporting Midwives, nurses, nursery nurses and Doctors to provide care to the women and babies in the department. The successful candidate will be part of the maternity unit rotation working in all clinical areas. This includes the maternity antenatal clinics and maternity theatres as well as the in-patient ward areas and labour ward. You should have previous experience of working with the public. A good standard of numeracy and literacy and a flexible approach to work in any area of maternity. You main roles and responsibilities whilst working alongside the registered health care professionals would be to assist in the provision of care to women and their babies, during ante-natal, delivery and postnatal period.

Although this position is a 12 months fixed-term contract, the actual contract duration will be adjusted to account for the time taken to advertise the post, complete the hiring process, and finalise pre-employment checks. This means the contract will begin when the candidate starts the role and may be slightly shorter than 12 months.

To work alongside, but under the guidance of practitioners at all levels from across the maternity multidisciplinary team, assisting in caring for the needs of women and their babies, within required competencies.

To be aware of emotional and physical needs of women and their babies, providing appropriate support in conjunction with the midwife.

To serve as a point of contact for women and their families and provide clinical, physical, psychological and emotional care and support.

They report directly to registered practitioners where planned care and tasks delegated by a registered or level 4 practitioner has been provided. Undertake routine clerical duties to ensure the smooth running of the midwifery team.

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

This advert closes on Thursday 29 Oct 2026