# Infant Feeding Maternity Support Worker > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/infant-feeding-maternity-support-worker/e990b756-5c8c-465f-a1a4-c5a3bbabaa1c - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/infant-feeding-maternity-support-worker/e990b756-5c8c-465f-a1a4-c5a3bbabaa1c.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Middlesbrough - **Region:** North East and Yorkshire - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Healthcare support worker - **Grade:** Band 3 - **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum - **Contract type:** 3 years (fixed term) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (A mixture of week days and weekend cover.) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-22T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-08T13:33:17.879Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cleveland/Middlesbrough/South_Tees_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Family_Health_Services/Family_Health_Services-v7981913 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7981913?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.southtees.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for an additional maternity support worker to join our feeding team. The post holder will have a passion for supporting women and families to meet their feeding goals You will be an active member of the Infant Feeding Team, undertaking breastfeeding support, delegated feeding support duties, including clinical feeding assessments and implementing support, reporting findings and concerns to the registered professionals within the MDT. You will deliver support that is kind, compassionate and individualised to the mother-baby and family needs. The role will operate across 7 days a week and will require commitment to share weekend working with the other team members. Shift patterns will be variable and may be negotiable providing service needs can be met - please contact us to discuss this further. ### Main duties of the job The successful candidates will work as part of the infant feeding team to strengthen the current service, supporting families to reach their feeding goals. The role predominantly involves providing infant feeding support within in-patient areas (and occasionally elsewhere in the hospital as needed), and delivering antenatal education within in-patient areas. The post-holder will support the service's ongoing commitment  to achieving the Unicef UK Baby Friendly Standards. The role will involve admin and audit responsibilities. As the service develops, there may be some scope for community working. The post-holder will update and maintain accurate records of any care provision, updating and escalating any concerns from their observations and activities to the appropriate registered professional(s). The post-holder will have a personal responsibility and duty of care to patients/service users; they are expected to comply fully with all Trust policies and protocols, including those related to patient safety and the prevention of healthcare associated infections. They must also promote dignity, privacy, and respect, to deliver compassionate, safe, high-quality patient care. As a Trust employee, they will honour their work commitments, be reliable and trustworthy. They will uphold the Trust values; the Trust code of conduct will always display civility towards others. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working in health or social care. - Experience of undertaking and recording clinical observations and escalation of changes or findings. **Desirable** - Experience of working in an NHS care role. ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Excellent interpersonal, communication & active listening skills. Ability to adopt appropriate styles & methods of communication. - Timekeeping, planning and prioritisation skills. - Basic IT skills to use electronic patient records & other Trust systems. - Analytical and judgement skills to make decisions based on patient / service user interactions and observations and metrics. - Working knowledge of legislation underpinning care provision. - Ability to demonstrate the importance of holistic person-centred care & related procedures. - Understanding of the importance of robust, accurate, clear, timely documentation. - Insight into behaviours and skills of a carer and the need for effective teamwork. - Awareness of GDPR and the need for confidentiality ### Qualifications/Training **Essential** - Numeracy and Literacy Level 2 or Maths & English GCSE A-C/4-9 or Maths & English O Level/GCE A-C or Maths & English CSE Grade 1 or NARIC/ENIC which compares the qualification to UK GCSE (https://www.enic-naric.net/) - Level 3 vocational qualification or Short courses and completion of compe-tency workbook equivalent to Level 3 in a range of patient and clinical care du-ties and/or Equivalent knowledge and experience in a range of clinical care duties equivalent to Level 3: - Theoretical knowledge - Experience of a range of care and related procedures - clinical observations - knowledge of relevant legislation - Care certificate ## Documents - [friarage hospital map (pdf, 531.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2096) - [james cook campus map (pdf, 168.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2094) - [guidance notes for applicants (pdf, 113.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2093) - [clinical service units directorate (pdf, 116.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2423) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10439591) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.