Community Maternity Support Worker

Job summary

Join Our Compassionate Team as a Community Maternity Support Worker!

Are you passionate about making a meaningful difference in the lives of women and families during one of life's most special times? As a valued Maternity Support Worker, you'll play a crucial role in supporting our community midwifery team, including providing care during weekends.

You'll work closely alongside skilled midwives who will guide and supervise the care provided, ensuring every task is carried out within an established care plan. While you may not always be under direct supervision, your contribution will be vital in delivering safe, compassionate, and holistic support.

In this rewarding role, you'll be a trusted team member, offering kindness, professionalism, and empathy to women and their families. Your work may also include supporting other areas within the maternity department, always collaborating with midwives to provide seamless care.

If you're ready to be part of a caring, dynamic team where your efforts truly impact lives, we'd love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Duties of the Post

• Primarily work in the community Midwifery team, may need to occasionally work across the inpatient service depending on service needs
• Perform all fundamental tasks of a Band 3 MSW, often in lone worker capacity within the community setting
• Undertake Day 5 Newborn blood spot screening and TCB screening on jaundice babies in the community.
• Perform basic observations, urinalysis and phlebotomy if required
• Perform basic observations on babies and escalate any deviations from the norm when appropriate
• Give competent SBAR handovers to members of the team within your remit
• Perform basic IT functions, documenting on our Badgernet system contemporaneously, the care given to women and babies
• Assist the midwife in any basic tasks that need undertaking
• Keeping areas and equipment clean and tidy
• Stocking up store rooms, rooms and trolleys with appropriate resources and equipment
• Support the wider team however required, eg running simple errands and telephones
• Work alongside the midwife to recognise those women who may need urgent attention and help escalate accordingly
• Assist with infant feeding, using the BFI initiatives and participating in upholding our Gold accreditation, supporting new mothers with their feeding choice
• Supporting women and babies in the immediate post- natal period, ensuring alongside the midwives maternal and fetal wellbeing

About us

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surreyand NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and issupported by over 500 volunteers.