Maternity Support Worker

NHS; Middlesbrough; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare team as a Maternity Support Worker at James Cook Hospital. You will work alongside midwives and doctors, providing essential care and support to pregnant individuals. This role demands compassion, reliability, and adherence to healthcare standards while promoting patient dignity and safety. The Trust offers leadership training and development opportunities to enhance your career in healthcare.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in health or social care.
• Experience of undertaking and recording clinical observations.

Responsibilities

• Support midwives in the smooth running of clinics.
• Update and maintain accurate records of care provision.
• Comply with Trust policies and promote patient dignity.

Skills

Numeracy

Literacy

Clinical Observations

Education

Level 3 vocational qualification

Care certificate

Job description

Go back South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Maternity Support Worker

The closing date is 23 May 2025

We are looking for a Maternity Support Worker to join our Antenatal Clinic team at James Cook Hospital. This role would include working alongside Registered Midwives, Specialist Midwives, Doctors and Consultants in Antenatal Clinic, welcoming pregnant people, performing observations, venepuncture, acting as a chaperone and supporting midwives in the smooth running of clinics.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be an active member of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT), undertaking personal care activities, delegated clinical care duties, including clinical observations as directed by registered professionals and within clearly defined parameters, to provide healthcare and support that is individualised to the patient needs.The post holder will update and maintain accurate records of any care provision and update and escalate any concerns from their observations and activities to the appropriate registered professional. The post holder has a personal responsibility and duty of care to patients/service users; they are expected to comply fully with all Trust policies and protocols, including those related to patient safety and the prevention of healthcare associated infections. They must also promote dignity, privacy, and respect, to deliver compassionate, safe, high-quality patient care. As a Trust employee, they will honour their work commitments, be reliable and trustworthy. They will uphold the Trust values; the Trust code of conduct will always display civility towards others.

The post holder may need to support in other clinical areas within maternity to ensure safe care can be delivered to all patients.

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the New and Aspiring leaders programme, and the Foundation Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. After you complete this one and a half day of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

• Numeracy and Literacy Level 2
• Level 3 vocational qualification or Short courses and completion of competency workbook equivalent to Level 3 in a range of patient and clinical care duties and/or Equivalent knowledge and experience in a range of clinical care duties equivalent to Level 3; -Theoretical knowledge -Experience of a range of care and related procedures -clinical observations -knowledge of relevant legislation
• Care certificate

Experience

• Experience of working in health or social care.
• Experience of undertaking and recording clinical observations and escalation of changes or findings.
• Experience of working in an NHS care role.

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.

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£24,625 to £25,674 a yearPer annum (pro rata)