Bank Maternity Support Worker

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 3 Maternity Support Worker to provide direct care across maternity services, including community, antenatal, intrapartum and inpatient areas.

The role involves caring for women and babies, supporting breastfeeding, and contributing to a multidisciplinary team with training and supervision as needed. Shifts include day, night and weekend patterns.

Qualifications

• Care of the service user
• Care of the baby
• Infant Feeding
• Managerial/Leadership
• Administration
• Plus specialists tasks following appropriate training and assessment

Responsibilities

• Care of the service user
• Care of the baby
• Infant Feeding
• Managerial/Leadership
• Administration
• Plus specialists tasks following appropriate training and assessment

Job description

Band 3 Maternity Support Workers (MSW's) provide direct clinical care to all women and babies accessing maternity services, including Community, Antenatal clinic, Intrapartum and Inpatient areas. Shift patterns hours in Antenatal Clinics and Community are between 7.5 hours and 9.5 hours daytime only. Intrapartum and Inpatient areas will be shifts patterns including nights and weekends Band 3 MSW's may serve as a point of contact/support for women and their families and provide clinical, physical, psychological and emotional care and support; they provide appropriate information and where necessary, signpost to wider support organisations. They report to registered practitioners where planned delegated care has been provided. We reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the closing date indicated should we feel we have received sufficient applications. A Maternity Support Worker will support the wider multidisciplinary team to provide care and support to service users and their babies. This will include

• Care of the service user
• Care of the baby
• Infant Feeding
• Managerial/Leadership
• Administration
• Plus specialists tasks following appropriate training and assessment

Please see the Job Description attached. We are committed to supporting colleagues through organisational change. Priority will be given to staff at risk within North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care Board.