Maternity Support Worker: Weekend & Night Shifts, Growth

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust; Carshalton; In loco; GBP 31.000 - 32.000; Tempo pieno

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Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust in London is recruiting a Maternity Support Worker to join the in-patient maternity team at St Helier. The role supports midwives by carrying out extended skills across the maternity ward, delivery suite, and postnatal care on weekends and nights.

You will assist with newborn screening, observations, feeding support, SBAR handovers, and ensure safe, compassionate care within a care plan framework, while developing your practice within the

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• Work as part of the inpatient Maternity team across both the Maternity ward and the Delivery suite
• Undertake Newborn blood spot screening and SBR tests for any eligible babies
• Assess jaundice in newborn babies, including performing TCB tests and commencing phototherapy
• Perform basic observations, urinalysis and phlebotomy if required
• Perform basic observations on babies and eliminate any deviations from the norm when appropriate
• Assist with Maternity theatre cases
• Give competent SBAR handovers to members of the team within your remit
• Perform basic IT functions, documenting on our Badgernet system contemporaneously, the care given to women and babies
• Assist the midwife in any basic tasks that need undertaking
• Keeping areas and equipment clean and tidy
• Stocking up store rooms, rooms and trolleys with appropriate resources and equipment
• Support the wider team however required, eg running simple errands and telephones
• Work alongside the midwife to recognise those women who may need urgent attention and help escalating accordingly
• Assist with infant feeding, using the BFI initiatives and participating in upholding our Gold accreditation, supporting new mothers with their feeding choice
• Supporting women and babies in the immediate post- natal period, ensuring alongside the midwives, maternal and fetal wellbeing

Descrizione del lavoro

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust in London is recruiting a Maternity Support Worker to join the in-patient maternity team at St Helier. The role supports midwives by carrying out extended skills across the maternity ward, delivery suite, and postnatal care on weekends and nights.

You will assist with newborn screening, observations, feeding support, SBAR handovers, and ensure safe, compassionate care within a care plan framework, while developing your practice within the