Maternity Care Assistant and Newborn Hearing Screener

Job summary

The maternity health care assistant will be an effective member of the team providing kind, considerate and professional care to women and their families. You will undertake an agreed range of extended skills to support the Community Midwifery service. The midwife will be responsible for all care and supervision.

There may be occasions when you may be escalated to work within a clinical area of the maternity department. At all times you will be working under the supervision of a Clinician within the department.

Main duties of the job

A Maternity assistant will provide direct care to mothers and babies with minimal supervision but under the direction of a registered midwife following training.

You will be responsible to undertake hearing screening for new born babies, in line with national standards. The role is based in the community setting including maternity hubs, working within a community midwifery team.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting