Community Maternity Support Worker

Job summary

Band 3 MSW Community - Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Location: This post is primarily based within the Basingstoke area

Role Description: The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of maternity care in the community in coordination with the community midwifery team, newborn hearing (NBHS) & newborn blood spot (NBBS) screeners. The successful post holder will deliver feeding support to new mothers and their families, provide education and information using evidence based and up to date guidance about newborn care and escalate concerns to the midwifery team as they arise.

Main duties of the job

What we look for:

• Experience in maternity care within the hospital and ideally within the community setting as well to join our team providing maternity services across a large part of Hampshire
• Care certificate and skills/competencies signed off as Band 2 MSW
• Able to provide administration and clerical support, working between the hours 0800-1600 hours, 4 days a week between Monday - Sunday
• Ability to work as part of a team, be organised and prioritise personal workload

Main duties:

• To be attached to a team of midwives to support and enhance the role of the midwife both in the community.
• To support the midwife in all clinical areas in the care of women and babies.
• To carry out NHSP hearing screening as per national guidance and after full training.
• To carry out NBBS screening as per national guidance, local protocols and after full training.
• To provide evidence based feeding support to families after full training.
• To attend regular training and updates specifically for MSW's skills.

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.