Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity Support Worker
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent: Rotational contract across all areas in maternity.
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 381-WC-6215384-A
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS trust
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 pro rata/per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Maternity Support Worker
NHS AfC: Band 3
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
Previous applicants need not apply
As a Maternity support Worker you would be delivering high quality care to women and their New born babies across all areas within our maternity unit.
Main duties of the job
Applicants will be expected to work independently whilst remaining under the supervision of midwives. this will include breastfeeding support, phlebotomy, providing care for new mothers and their babies during the postnatal period, supporting midwives , undertaking neonatal bloods spot test and performing weight checks for babies. you will also be required to work with electronic maternity records and be responsible for clinical stock and equipment.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 . If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for details on the main duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Literacy and Numeracy
- NVQ II or III in Care
Desirable criteria
- Basic First Aid
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience working in a hospital or other heath care environment
- Experience for undertaking phlebotomy
Desirable criteria
- Clerical experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Whitehouse
- Job title
- Postnatal Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01215074702
- Additional information
Zulekha Samsodien
01215075448
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