Job summary
East Sussex Healthcare Trust is offering the opportunity to join our maternity team and is seeking an enthusiastic Maternity Support Worker with an interest in antenatal and newborn screening to help provide an excellent service to women and their families in the antenatal and newborn period. Eastbourne and Hastings is on the South East Coast of England with its beautiful seaside towns and villages, a stones through away from the beautiful countryside of the South Downs and Kent. A perfect place to work!
Part Time: 33.75 hours per week
Main duties of the job
As a Maternity Support Worker for Antenatal and Newborn Screening you will be predominantly office based, and will actively partake in assisting the Specialist Antenatal and Newborn Screening Midwives meet set national targets to ensure women and babies get the necessary screening tests requested and any follow appointments as required. You will actively assist in meeting the needs of parents, thus enhancing the delivery of care within ESHT.
We are a tight knit team working closely together to provide women and their families with high quality, evidence based midwifery care. You will need to be a highly motivated team player committed to improving and developing the service.
Please download the Recruitment Information Leaflet for guidance on making a successful application
About us
We are proud to provide 'Outstanding' care and be a great place to work
We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people's own homes.
In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as 'Good' overall, and 'Outstanding' for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated 'Outstanding'. Eastbourne DGH rated 'Good'.
In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious 'Building for our Future' programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description attached.
If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description attached.
If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) Level 3 in Health and Social Care OR an acceptable level 3 Qualification with equivalent experience.
- Satisfactory General Education and evidence of additional training relevant to role.
- Care Certificate
Experience
Essential
- Previous/ current experience in a Health or Social Care environment.
- Experience of working independently as well as part of a team
Desirable
- Previous experience of working as a maternity support worker
Skills / Knowledge / Abilities
Essential
- Good communication skills.
- Effective interpersonal skills and ability to use own initiative.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Able to use Microsoft office programmes, in particular Excel
Desirable
- Understanding of needs of pregnant / postnatal women
- Understanding the principles of adult & child protection
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) Level 3 in Health and Social Care OR an acceptable level 3 Qualification with equivalent experience.
- Satisfactory General Education and evidence of additional training relevant to role.
- Care Certificate
Experience
Essential
- Previous/ current experience in a Health or Social Care environment.
- Experience of working independently as well as part of a team
Desirable
- Previous experience of working as a maternity support worker
Skills / Knowledge / Abilities
Essential
- Good communication skills.
- Effective interpersonal skills and ability to use own initiative.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Able to use Microsoft office programmes, in particular Excel
Desirable
- Understanding of needs of pregnant / postnatal women
- Understanding the principles of adult & child protection
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
