Maternity Support Worker - Community

Job summary

22.5 hours per week

We are looking to recruit a Maternity Support Worker join our Midwifery team in the community of Rotherham. You will work across the maternity unit with cross-cover as needed, while developing a specialist skill portfolio aligned to your main area.

Key responsibilities:

• Deliver compassionate, family centred support to birthing people, partners, and newborns, respecting feeding choices.
• Recognise and help prevent maternal/neonatal illness; escalate concerns to a midwife.
• Perform and record maternal observations (temperature, pulse, respiratory rate, blood pressure, urinalysis).
• Obtain and document maternal carbon monoxide (CO) levels; give brief smoking cessation advice and refer as appropriate.
• Collect newborn heel prick capillary samples and complete documentation.
• Undertake venepuncture for birthing people within competence and training.
• Maintain accurate records; confidently use multiple clinical IT systems to input and retrieve data.
• Contribute to a clean, safe environment; support stock and clinic/community workflow.
• Work collaboratively with midwives and the wider multidisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate Compassion, clear communication, attention to detail, and sound judgment in escalation.
• Flexibility across community and acute settings, able to drive and perform home visits across the Rotherham area.
• Willingness to train and maintain required competencies.

Main duties of the job

• Assist the Midwife with the holistic care of the birthing person and family
• Obtain capillary sample of blood via heel prick and completing documentation as appropriate.
• Following initial assessment by a midwife and their development of a care plan undertake routine healthy baby observations in the hospital and community reporting any abnormalities to the midwife (this includes calculating the % of birth weight gained or lost and escalating as appropriate).
• Be competent in all aspects of infant feeding support.
• Undertake, record maternal vital signs such as temperature, pulse, urinalysis
• screening, respiratory rate and blood pressure and report any concerns to the
• midwife. This also includes the obtaining and documenting of Co levels of the birthing person and giving brief intervention support to stop smoking.
• Undertake, recognise and interpret billirubinometer readings for babies with signs of jaundice. With the understanding of when to escalate the results to a Midwife
• Perform Glucose tolerance tests and supporting and liaising with midwives.

About us

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust (TRFT) is a combined acute and community Trust serving our local population of around 270,000 people. Our vision is to always act the right way and be proud to provide exceptional healthcare to the communities of Rotherham

As a Trust we are on a journey to excellence and our people and culture are at the heart of everything we do for patients. In the latest NHS Staff Survey, we are the second most improved Trust in England for would you recommend the Trust as a place to work?, and were one of the most improved for staff engagement overall

But don't just take our word for it each year hundreds of colleagues receive nominations for our Excellence and Proud awards, showcasing our brilliant people and recognising their achievements. Our people make a difference to the lives of patients every day and we are proud of the improvements we are making

All of our colleagues are key to our journey, and we are continuing to improve our services by upholding the Trusts values of Ambitious, Caring and Together. If you are passionate about making a difference, then please apply to join us on our journey to excellence

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Employer details

Employer name

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Woodside Building

Moorgate Road

Rotherham

S60 2TY

Employer's website

https://www.therotherhamft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Woodside Building

Moorgate Road

Rotherham

S60 2TY

Employer's website

https://www.therotherhamft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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