Job summary
Maternity Support Worker, Maternity Ward- Band 3 (22.5 hours a week)
A rare opportunity has arisen to join the Maternity Support Worker team (South Stroud hub) who works closely with the midwifery team and newborn screening to deliver clinical and therapeutic care to women and babies within set protocols and remit.
Please note - this vacancy may close before the deadline if we receive enough suitable applications.
Additional working pattern details: includes weekend rotation.
Main duties of the job
The maternity support workers delivers a day 5 postnatal care to the women and babies, as well as other postnatal support within the midwifery team such as day 3/9 postnatal visits. These appointments take place in hospital/children clinics or as home visits. As part of the day 5 responsibilities, the MSW will carry out the newborn hearing screening and bloodspot for the babies, provide safe feeding advice and support, check baby's weight and jaundice assessment. There are other clinical responsibilities, please see job description for all the details.
About us
We work as a close team where communication is important to ensure all eligible babies are offered the newborn screening on baby's day 5.
There are 3 hubs, South, West & East to ensure all the babies across Gloucestershire are offered the newborn screening. This post is for the South hub which means at large, the post holder will be covering the surrounding area of Stroud and Cirencester. However, all the MSWs do cross cover across the county wherever staffing is required (sometimes at short notice).
It is important that babies are appropriately offered, seen and referred timely, so interventions and support can be in place during the baby's early stages of life.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will under the management of the team, work as part of the multi-disciplinary team, providing care to patients as delegated by the registered practitioner.
The post-holder will assist with the assessment, investigation, and care of patients with the support of a qualified medical or midwifery practitioner, undertaking aspects of care within the competencies they have attained through formal and informal education and training.
The post holder will contribute to the provision of a high quality maternity service by providing competent and compassionate care to women and their families supporting the transition to parenthood.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will under the management of the team, work as part of the multi-disciplinary team, providing care to patients as delegated by the registered practitioner.
The post-holder will assist with the assessment, investigation, and care of patients with the support of a qualified medical or midwifery practitioner, undertaking aspects of care within the competencies they have attained through formal and informal education and training.
The post holder will contribute to the provision of a high quality maternity service by providing competent and compassionate care to women and their families supporting the transition to parenthood.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to GCSE grade C or above (or equivalent) in literacy and numeracy
Desirable
- A Level 3 qualification in maternity support (this could be an NVQ, BTEC or equivalent international qualification), or willingness to undertake this qualification
Experience
Essential
- Appropriate experience in a hospital environment
Desirable
- IT Experience of Microsoft Office packages
- Ability to demonstrate proficient use of hospital systems
- Screening knowledge/experience
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Good written and verbal communication skills with a good command and understanding of English, punctuation and grammar
- Good interpersonal skills for dealing with people internal and external to the organisation
- Ability to work flexibly within a team
- An excellent professional manner to minimise conflict, resolve queries and maintain the reputation of the organisation when dealing with members of the multi-disciplinary team and members of the public
- Understanding of information governance, confidentiality and data protection
- Ability to read notes, extract data and document accurately on the relevant systems
- Flexible and able to react to changes and methods of working
- Ability to use initiative and sound judgement when providing patient care
- Ability to handle occasional distressing circumstances and assist with providing bereavement care to women and their families
- Ability to move sets of patients notes which can be heavy (max 15kg)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to GCSE grade C or above (or equivalent) in literacy and numeracy
Desirable
- A Level 3 qualification in maternity support (this could be an NVQ, BTEC or equivalent international qualification), or willingness to undertake this qualification
Experience
Essential
- Appropriate experience in a hospital environment
Desirable
- IT Experience of Microsoft Office packages
- Ability to demonstrate proficient use of hospital systems
- Screening knowledge/experience
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Good written and verbal communication skills with a good command and understanding of English, punctuation and grammar
- Good interpersonal skills for dealing with people internal and external to the organisation
- Ability to work flexibly within a team
- An excellent professional manner to minimise conflict, resolve queries and maintain the reputation of the organisation when dealing with members of the multi-disciplinary team and members of the public
- Understanding of information governance, confidentiality and data protection
- Ability to read notes, extract data and document accurately on the relevant systems
- Flexible and able to react to changes and methods of working
- Ability to use initiative and sound judgement when providing patient care
- Ability to handle occasional distressing circumstances and assist with providing bereavement care to women and their families
- Ability to move sets of patients notes which can be heavy (max 15kg)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
