Job summary
- Main area
- MSW
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 220-WHT-3100
- Employer
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Whittington Health
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £30,039 - £31,088 per annum inclusive of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Maternity Support Worker (MSW)
NHS AfC: Band 3
Covid-19 Vaccination
Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.
Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.
For our current apprenticeship vacancies, please go to https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship and use Keyword ‘Whittington’
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.
Job overview
Come and join our amazing maternity team.
We have a very successful and sought-after workforce. We invest in our midwives and support staff, helping with their professional development at the start of their career.
The role of maternity support worker is to assist, support and work in collaboration with the midwife and the wider multidisciplinary team to provide a safe and holistic approach to women-centred care. The post is rotational and the employee will be provided with appropriate training for the clinical setting in which they are working. These settings include antenatal, postnatal, inpatient and outpatient care, and intrapartum inpatient care.
The post holder is expected to undertake a set of defined competencies including the ‘care certificate’. This certificate ensures the minimum standards for the role are met and can further be incorporated into a ‘skills passport’. Support will be given to employees to further develop their skills and explore pathways for progression where appropriate.
Main duties of the job
Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the details
of the job description can also be found in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities' section.
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone.
Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this
population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation,
and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details.
All staff are well supported by a strong PDM team and Professional Midwifery Advocates, as well as our Senior Midwifery Team.
Person specification
working patterns
Essential criteria
- able to work nights days and weekends
understanding of maternity services
Essential criteria
- has worked for over 6 months within the NHS
theatre skills
Desirable criteria
- has understanding of running in theatre
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
- Jane Mckenzie
- Job title
- Practice Development Midwife
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