Job summary
- Main area
- Obstetrics
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 434-SCS6800975
- Employer
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wycombe Hospital
- Town
- Wycombe
- Salary
- £24,625 - £25,674 per annum (pro rata for part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community / Maternity Support Worker
Band 3
Be part of our BHT family
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.
We care for over half a million patients every year:
- provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
- nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
- regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
- deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.
More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.
We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.
If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.
Job overview
We are delighted to offer the opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated maternity community support worker to join our community midwifery team.
This role is based at Wycombe Hospital but some cross site working will be required.
As part of the community team you will support the midwives to deliver care to women at all stages of pregnancy and post birth, there is some lone working, home visiting and also the opportunity to work with the wider multi-agency team in care settings including at children’s Centre’s.
You will support the community midwives in their clinics, assist mothers with feeding and be involved in antenatal classes and tours of the unit.
Main duties of the job
- To work as an integral member of the multi-disciplinary maternity care team, caring for women and babies within the locality with competence, compassion, and respect, mindful always of issues of consent and principles of equality and diversity.
- To work under the guidance and direction of midwives, undertaking delegated tasks once trained and declared competent and aware at all times of the responsibilities and limitations of the MCA role.
- To be at all times vigilant and alert to the appearance and behaviour of mothers and babies, reporting back to a midwife any deviations from normal or other causes for concern regarding physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.
- To ensure that client goodwill and confidence in the Trust is maintained at all times by carrying out duties in a confident, courteous, and sympathetic manner.
- To establish and maintain good communications and working relationships between staff, patients, relatives, and visitors.
Working for our organisation
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
• As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
• We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
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What do we stand for?
• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people, ideally in a front-line customer service role.
- Experience of providing person centred care.
Education, Qualifications & Training
Desirable criteria
- Level 2 or Level 3 (NVQ) in health and Social Care or equivalent relevant experience
- Willing to work towards Level2 functional skills (Math & English)
- Care Certificate/working towards
Skills, Abilities & Knowlege
Essential criteria
- An understanding of the importance of patient confidentially and privacy.
- Demonstrates a caring, compassionate, and empatheticapproach to patient’s and colleagues, whilst having a professional approach.
- Recognise how patients and colleagues need to be treated with dignity and respect and can demonstrate these behaviours in their daily work.
- Good verbal and written English communication skills.
- The ability to respond with kindness and humanity to patients.
- A flexible and adaptable approach with the aptitude to work in a busy hospital healthcare setting.
- Willingness to undertake the mentorship of new Nursing Assistants after 12 months in post.
- Basic knowledge of health and safety with an awareness of theimportance of following Trust policies and procedures.
- An appreciation of equality, diversity and inclusion and how this influences how care is provided to patients.
- A willingness to provide the highest standards of patient care including personal care.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Good understanding of care needs relevant to patients in a hospital setting to include: Eating and drinking, Dignity and respect, Communication/conflict resolution, Handwashing and infection control, Hygiene needs, Safeguarding
- Understands the limit and scope of their job role and the need to only do tasks they are trained to do.
- Knows when to escalate to a registered nurse when the situation is beyond their scope of practice.
Behaviours & Values
Essential criteria
- Flexibility in shift/working patterns to meet the needs of the service
- Works effectively as a team.
- Is of good health and good character
- Willing to accept additional responsibilities as delegated by senior staff
- Always acts with honesty and integrity.
- Professional approach.
- Displays BHT Values
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Jo Gridley
- Job title
- Matron For Community and Birth Centre
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07816177075
- Additional information
If you are interested in this varied role please contact Jo Gridley Matron for Community Midwives on 07816177075 or [email protected]
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