Maternity Care Assistant

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Basildon; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust in Basildon is seeking a Band 3 Maternity Care Assistant to join the maternity team. You will support Midwives with caring for women and babies and will be involved in observational checks to monitor health and wellbeing.

The role requires flexibility and a proactive approach to assist across all areas of maternity, working within a multidisciplinary team to deliver compassionate care and support for families accessing maternity services.

Responsibilities

• Support Midwives with providing care to women and babies and completing observations to monitor wellbeing.
• Work across all areas of Maternity and be flexible to assist the service.
• Provide emotional and practical support to women and their families.

Job description

We are seeking a Maternity Care Assistant - band 3 to join our team at our Basildon site to work across all areas of Maternity.

The appointed candidate will be responsible for supporting Midwives with providing care to women and babies and completing observations to monitor the well being of both.

You will support all areas within maternity and will require a flexible motivated person to support the service., Level 3 Maternity Care Assistant provides direct delivery of clinical care to all women and babies accessing maternity services and may be based within specialist and integrated teams such as in theatre, fetal medicine units and community hubs.

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

Provide appropriate information and where necessary, signpost to wider support organisations. The MSW reports to registered practitioners where planned delegated care has been provided.

Uses additional skills, to those of band 2 Maternity Care Assistant, within focused aspects of service delivery to enhance the service offered to women and their families; working alongside, but under the guidance of, practitioners at all levels from across the multidisciplinary team including, but not limited to midwives; obstetricians; ultra-sonographers; physiotherapists and advanced nurse practitioners

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.