Maternity Support Worker

Bolton Nhs Foundation Trust; Farnworth; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a compassionate Maternity Support Worker (Band 2) to assist midwives and multidisciplinary teams in delivering high-quality, family-centred care across antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods.

The role involves practical and emotional support, working across a range of maternity settings, and rotating to different areas as needed to maintain high standards of care.

Qualifications

• Experience working in maternity or healthcare settings preferred.
• Ability to provide both practical and emotional support to women and families.
• Willingness to rotate across different areas of the maternity service.

Responsibilities

• Provide maternity care to women and newborns under supervision across antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods.
• Offer practical and emotional support to women and their families.
• Rotate to different areas within our maternity service as required.
• Act as role model and coach Trainee and Band 2 MSW.
• Contribute to the efficient and effective running of the ward/department.

Skills

Compassionate care

Teamwork

Communication

Job description

Are you a compassionate and dedicated individual with a passion for supporting women and families through pregnancy, birth and the post natal period.

This is a fantastic opportunity for current Maternity Care Assistants (Band 2) to progress and enhance their skills, knowledge and role.

As a Maternity support worker, you will work alongside midwives and other healthcare professionals to deliver high quality, safe and family centred care in a variety of settings throughout our Maternity service. Your role will involve providing practical, and emotional support to women and their families during the antenatal, intrapartum and post natal period. This role may require you to rotate to different areas throughout our Maternity service.

• The Maternity Support Worker will utilise skills to offer women, their new-born infants and their families a range of maternity care delivered under indirect and direct supervision of practitioners across the maternity multidisciplinary team.
• Act as a role model providing coaching and guidance to Trainee and Band 2 MSW as required.
• Helping to ensure the efficient and effective running of the ward/department at all times.
• Manage their own workload and activities whilst ensuring that their practice is guided by standard operating procedures and established protocols. Their practice will reflect the principles of woman and family centred care.
• Prioritise own workload and be responsible for planned care and tasks delegated from a registered practitioner.
• Provide appropriate information and signpost to other health sector organisations.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust provide services across the North West side of the Greater Manchester area ranging from hospital services in Bolton to community services across Bolton, Salford, Ashton, Leigh and Wigan.

We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition

around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. We have recently been given a CQC rating of Good.

Over 5,700 people work for the Trust and many of them have been here a long time. People find they don't need to go elsewhere to find a fulfilling

career in healthcare.

The Family Division aims to deliver the highest standards of care for maternity, sexual health, gynaecology and a range of acute and community children's services. The Division is a Centre of Excellence for Women's and Children's services and has a credible and enviable reputation. We deliver over 6,000 babies and carry around 1500 gynaecological procedures each year, making us a specialist provider of health services for women, babies and their families in the North West Sector of Manchester and beyond.

With births of around 6000 per year, Bolton is the 'Supercentre' for the northwest, providing high quality compassionate care to the women of