(*) Maternity Support Worker | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Southend University Hospital NHS Trust; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Southend University Hospital NHS Trust is inviting applications for a Maternity Support Worker to join our maternity team. You will assist qualified staff, prepare rooms, maintain infection control, and support families across mid and south Essex.

The role involves shift and weekend work, with opportunities to learn new skills, including infant feeding support and phlebotomy, while developing your career in a supportive NHS environment.

Responsibilities

• Performs clinical baseline observations
• Records and documents episodes of care in accordance with Guidelines
• Liaises with other departments and members of the multidisciplinary team
• Complete further training to add additional skills to your repertoire inc infant feeding support, phlebotomy, etc

Job description

Maternity Support Worker | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Company:

Company: Southend University Hospital NHS Trust

Salary: £25,272 Per annum (pro rata for part time)

Are you caring, compassionate and hard-working? Would you like to help deliver high-quality care to babies and their families across mid and south Essex?

Then we invite you to apply to join our team as a Maternity Support Worker (MSW).

As a MSW, you will assist the qualified staff in delivering a caring and effective, patient focused service in keeping with the aims, objectives, and standards of the Trust.

You will ensure that there is a safe care environment by preparing and clearing rooms and equipment with particular reference to infection control and safe working environment for patients, visitors and staff.

You'll be a key part of the maternity team and will ensure you communicate with teammates in an open, and effective way to promote the health, safety and wellbeing of people who use health and care services and their carers.

In return you will have the opportunity to develop skills and your career including access to great training courses and the full support of our management team.

Please note - this role involves shift/weekend work.

• Performs clinical baseline observations
• Records and documents episodes of care in accordance with Guidelines
• Liaises with other departments and members of the multidisciplinary team
• Complete further training to add additional skills to your repertoire inc infant feeding support, phlebotomy, etc

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

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

We look forward to your application.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications.

Unfortunately, there is no Visa Sponsorship available for this role. Whilst we are able to employ candidates on a graduate Visa, we are unable to offer sponsorship once the graduate visa expires. - for some roles - i.e. roles for band 2 to 4, inclusive.

This advert closes on Wednesday 28 Oct 2026