Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 153-SP04332
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- BEACH Building
- Town
- Bournemouth
- Salary
- £24,071 - £25,674 pa/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Maternity Support Worker/Community Maternity Support Worker
Band 3
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
Do you have a passion for women's health and supporting women, their babies and families throughout pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period?
Our maternity services are evolving with our plans to move to Bournemouth in 2025, we are looking to grow our team with maternity support workers.
We are looking for candidates who are prepared to work a variety of shifts including nights, weekends and bank holidays, no two days are the same in maternity and we provide a 24 hour, 365 day a year service.
Base Location: St Mary's Maternity Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
Main duties including providing kind and compassionate care including clinical observations, infant feeding, mental health and wellbeing support, housekeeping duties.
For community duties you would need access to your own transport and will be support midwives care for women and babies in their own homes and/or in designated clinics of which all training will be given.
In the hospital setting you will be a team player, working independently within scope of job and supported by a wonderful maternity team.
If you think this role could be for you, feel free to get in touch, in return UHD can offer further developmental training and long term career opportunities with attractive annual leave allowance and other staff benefits.
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
There is a planned move for this service during Spring 2025, when this role and base of work will relocate to Royal Bournemouth site. Upon relocation of the role/service, excess mileage allowance / reimbursement will not apply, and any travel between the postholder’s home and work base will be classified as a commute. Any other changes unrelated to this, will be handled in line with Trust/National terms and conditions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Clinical observations
- Personal Care
- Cleaning duties and general housekeeping
- Supporting diet and nutrition
- Stock replenishment
- Signposting women and families for appropriate support
- Answering the telephone
- Escalating concern
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good standard of numeracy and literacy
- Completed care certificate or willingness to undertake and complete within 12 weeks of joining the department
- Completion of a competency-based workbook or equivalent relevant experience to vocational level 3.
Desirable criteria
- Short courses to undertake patient and clinical care duties
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to adapt and learn in a health care environment
- Previous experience of working within maternity or a similar setting within the NHS
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of working with the public
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working within a care environment/NHS
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of working with the public
Skills
Essential criteria
- IT literate
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively (to understand and be understood)
- Ability to work as part of a team, as well as on own initiative.
- An understanding around basic patient care
- Ability to exchange factual information accurately
Desirable criteria
- Venepuncture and cannulation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Gemma Short
- Job title
- Recruitment and Retention Midwife
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07467 446649
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