Maternity Support Worker

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Maternity Support Worker to become a band 3 at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Hospital - Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital, West London.

At Imperial we are absolutely committed to ensuring that all service users have the best possible experience within our hospitals. We are looking for people who are passionate about delivering high quality care and take pride in what they do. We place a high value on treating service users and colleagues with respect and dignity and are seeking employees who strive for excellence and innovation in all that they do.

If you are interested in joining our team and share our vision to provide kind, collaborative, safe, high quality care to women and their families during their childbearing journey, please consider applying. It is desirable that you have had previous experience working within a healthcare setting, and be competent to undertake a range of duties such as the following; providing advice and supporting women with infant feeding, undertake competently a range of clinical skills such as taking and recording of observations, providing patient education, venepuncture and newborn blood spot screening.

Main duties of the job

• Working under the direction of a registered midwife, midwife or nursing associate, participate fully in the delivery of planned nursing care, within the boundaries of your role which may include chaperoning of patients, escorting/ transferring of patients and providing 1-1 patient centred care or caring for a group of patients that require enhanced care.
• Demonstrates own duties to new starters, undertaking a buddying role for new Health Care Support Workers.
• Frequent exposure to emotional/distressing events, e.g., breaking of bad news by registered health professionals.
• Assist in the care of patients at end of life and after death.
• Orders supplies under the direction of the midwife in charge.
• Participate in patient and public involvement activities.
• Participate in general cleanliness and tidiness of ward environment.
• Undertake mandatory training and role specific training relevant to role.
• Prioritises own workload.
• Record and escalate patient physiological observations.
• Acts on own initiative when delivering patient care with supervision accessible

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.