Job overview

Band 3: £25,760 - £27,476 Pro rata per annum.

Full time and Part time hours available.

Permanent Contract.

This role is not able to offer sponsorship. 

We are recruiting for a Maternity Support Worker  who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “working together, improving together”.

The primary role of the Maternity Support Worker (MSW) is to assist, support and work in collaboration with the midwife and the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT) to provide a safe and holistic approach to women centred care.
To provide a range of clinical and non-clinical activities and care to pregnant women, mothers and babies in a range of settings including antenatal/postnatal inpatient/ outpatient care and intrapartum inpatient/outpatient care.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is expected to undertake a set of defined competencies, including the ‘Care Certificate’ within the first 3 months of being in post. This job description is directly linked to The Maternity Support Worker Competency, Education and career Development Framework set out by Health Education England (HEE)https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/maternity/maternity-support-workers

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

Working for our organisation

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is the only integrated acute, community, mental health and ambulance health care provider in England. We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust’s beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.

Our 2020-2025 strategy sets out to ensure that we continue to be a provider of excellent and compassionate care. As part of this strategy, we are proactively taking steps to ensure that we recruit and retain the highest quality of talent to provide CARE and we would welcome applications from under-represented groups to ensure our Trust is an inclusive and diverse employer.