Maternity Care Assistant

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; Reading; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks a Maternity Support Worker to assist midwives in providing compassionate care to women and birthing persons. Responsibilities include supporting patient hygiene needs, infant feeding, and recording vital signs. This role requires a Care Certificate and experience as a Healthcare Assistant. Opportunities for relevant training and professional growth are available. A caring and resourceful individual will thrive in this environment, making a difference in maternal healthcare.

Qualifications

• Basic literacy skills are essential for communication.
• A Care Certificate is required for understanding fundamental care practices.
• Experience as a Healthcare Assistant/Maternity Care Assistant is a strong advantage.

Responsibilities

• Assist and support the midwife in providing patient care.
• Participate in daily bed rounds and answer call bells.
• Support with infant feeding and record vital signs.

Skills

Basic literacy

Patient care

Communication skills

Education

Care certificate

Job description

The post holder will provide support to women and birthing persons on the maternity ward.

This will involve Antenatal and postnatal care.

The Maternity Care Assistant will provide support to the registered Midwife/Nurse.

Main duties of the job

Support and assist the Midwife, in the delivery of the culturally sensitive, respectful, non-judgemental patient care.

Participates in all areas of fundamental care, e.g. assisting with personal hygiene needs, toileting needs, moving and handling techniques, serving meals and feeding, collecting specimens.

Practices in accordance with the Trust's protocols and guidelines.

Understands the importance of the patient as the centre of a healthcare system.

Support with Infant feeding.

Venepuncture,, neonatal blood test, VIP care.

Removal of catheters.

Undertakes the recording of vital signs both adult and neonate.

Undertakes and completes the band 2/3 competencies in a timely fashion.

Attends mandatory training. Opportunities may arise to study for relevant NVQ level 3 awards.

Undertake daily bed round and answer call bells.

About us

The town of Reading sits on the River Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford, and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work, and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

The CQC recently rated the care provided by The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as good.

Our values; Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.

Job responsibilities

The primary role of the Maternity Support Worker (MSW) is to assist, support and work in collaboration with the midwife and the wider multidisciplinary team; in order to provide a safe and holistic approach to women centered care.

The midwife is ultimately responsible for the care of the mother and her new-born(s), and it is under the direct or indirect supervision of the midwife that the MSW assists with and provides clinical care following completion of any relevant or appropriate training.

The post is rotational and the employee will be provided with appropriate training for the clinical setting in which they are working. These settings include antenatal inpatient or outpatient care, intrapartum inpatient care and postnatal inpatient and outpatient care.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Basic literacy
• Care certificate

Experience

• Current HCA/MCA
• Infant feeding experience
• Experience using trust's computer systems

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.