Maternity Assistant

Job summary

Working Full or Part time.

For most people it's hard to remember the last time they did something amazing.

As a Maternity Assistant at The Countess of Chester Hospital you will have the opportunity to make a difference.

For this type of work you need to be a caring and compassionate person with good listening and communication skills. You will be expected to demonstrate the ability to be able to work in a demanding and often busy environment as part of a team delivering a high levels of care.

You will be expected to assist the midwifery team to deliver care to both women and their babies- and you will work in both central labour suite (including theatre) and the post natal ward.

All of our Maternity Assistants work shifts which will include long days, nights weekends and bank holidays.

So what can we do for you? Well we can offer you a competitive salary, excellent holiday entitlement and the option to join the NHS Pension Scheme. Most importantly we can offer you the chance to take pride in what you do and to go home at the end of every shift knowing that you have helped to make people's lives easier.

Main duties of the job

• Assist the Registered Nurse/Midwife in the planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care
• Participate fully in the delivery of planned nursing care.
• Provide information to enable the effectiveness of care to be evaluated and records maintained.
• Involve patients and carers/relatives in the delivery of care and provide reassurance support to patients and carers/family.
• Work collaboratively with others in the Ward to ensure that patient's needs are met.
• Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.
• Provide escort and transfer for patients, with low dependency, as directed.

About us

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.