Maternity Support Worker

Job summary

The NCA is delighted to offer posts for motivated and positive individuals to join our Maternity Team as Maternity Support Workers.

Our Maternity Support Workers work within all clinical areas (Antenatal Clinic and Day Unit, Community, Birth Centre, Labour Ward, Maternity Triage, Antenatal Ward and Postnatal Ward) and are key members of our multi-disciplinary team.

As a Maternity Support Worker you'll support our midwifery team to provide high quality clinical care to women, birthing people and families.

We offer a robust training programme which will support you to develop the clinical skills and knowledge you'll need to succeed in this role.

Main duties of the job

Undertake the role of caring for a group of women and babies through indirect and direct supervision by registered midwives to aid in the delivery of all aspect of care in a safe and timely manner.

Carries out clinical duties in accordance with the Northern Care Alliance NHS Trust local standards and policies. This may include, but is not limited to, undertaking maternal observations, phlebotomy, cannulation, removal of female urethral catheters, monitoring of blood glucose via finger prick for adults and heelprick for neonates, undertake neonatal observations and obtain via heelprick.

Document all care provided on the appropriate patient record and ensure any deviations from the normal course are escalated in a timely manner to the registered professional.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential tomake a differenceand we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire- to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/