Maternity Support Worker (Community-vulnerable patient team)
This is an exciting post that will enable you to come and see for yourself what a friendly and caring service we provide. We are looking for passionate Maternity Support Workers who respond well to change and want to help us improve the care women receive in our service.
This role will be based within our vulnerable patient community midwifery team (Jade team), providing individualised care and support to women and their families on an enhanced care pathway.
The Jade midwives deliver tailored services to meet the needs of the most vulnerable cohorts of women and pregnant people, to ensure access to care and improve outcomes for families.
As a Jade team community MSW, you will be required to work across West Suffolk community, supporting the midwives to deliver their enhanced care package, providing clinical care in the home setting and empowering women to access universal services. This post holder will liaise closely with the multidisciplinary team and third sector agencies, to provide antenatal education, ensuring families are provided with necessary education and information to make informed choices in the management of their care and reduction in risk.
The post holder will be an experienced MSW or have equivalent healthcare experience, with completion of the Care Certificate an essential requirement.
Main duties of the job
A Maternity Support Worker uses general skills to enhance the service offered to women and their families across a range of aspects of maternity service delivery under the close supervision of a registrant.
Scope of role:
Maternity Support Workers work alongside registered practitioners and other members of the maternity care team who provide direct delivery of care to women and their families accessing community-based services. They may undertake basic care tasks, as part of routine care for women and their babies, and for which they have been appropriately trained. Where they do so, they will follow planned care programmes whilst being closely supervised by a registered midwife.
As part of their role an MSW will be required to complete a Care Certificate and other training relevant to the role (You will be paid as a band 2 until completed).
About us
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyone’s voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Job responsibilities
Please see job description for details
Person Specification
Education and qualifications
* Regulated Qualifications Framework Level 2 functional skills in literacy and mathematics.
* 5 GCSE Equivalent OR Previous clinical experience within health and social care settings relevant to role and evidences values associated with the NHS constitution and commitment to Level 3 role development including completion of Care Certificate (12 weeks from Commencement of post)
* Previous experience in a maternity setting
Experience and knowledge
* Working within a hospital or caring environment
* Working/Communicating with the general public
* Communication with a wide range of different people including service users, carer's and members of the multidisciplinary team
* Working in a team
* Experience of working with families, mothers, and babies
Skills and abilities
* Demonstrates awareness of the 6C's, Trust values, and Patients First Service Standards.
* Able to understand the importance of how to apply person centred values in the care environment: Privacy, Dignity, Respect, Active Participation, Equality, Diversity and Confidentiality
* Demonstrates an awareness of the importance of keeping the clinical environment safe and clean.
* Ability to use computerised systems
* Knowledge of Data Protection Act
* Understanding of risk Management and health and safety issues, including safe manual handling
* A genuine interest in kind and compassionate caring
* Flexible approach to working hours and duties
* Able to cope with exposure to unpleasant smells and bodily fluid
* Able to deal with challenging situations
* Able to relate to all people, valuing their individual traits that contribute to team working and the outcomes of care delivery.
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.
£23,615 to £25,674 a year Per Annum, Pro Rata
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