Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity Services
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-1325
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Charlotte's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £27,948 - £29,468 pa inclusive and pa inclusive pro rota
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 20/05/2024
Employer heading
Maternity Support Worker
Band 3
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Maternity Support Worker to become a band 3 at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Hospital - Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital, West London.
At Imperial we are absolutely committed to ensuring that all service users have the best possible experience within our hospitals. We are looking for people, who have prior experience in hospital and community healthcare settings, who are passionate about delivering high quality care and take pride in what they do. We place a high value on treating service users and colleagues with respect and dignity and are seeking employees who strive for excellence and innovation in all that they do.
If you are interested in joining our team and sharing our vision to provide kind, collaborative, safe, high quality care to women and their families during their childbearing journey, please consider applying. You will need to have had previous experience as a healthcare or maternity support worker and be competent to undertake a range of duties such as the following; providing advice and supporting women with infant feeding, undertake competently a range of clinical skills such as taking and recording of observations, providing patient education, venepuncture and newborn blood spot screening.
As part of the role you will be expected to complete the ‘Fundamental Care Certificate’ programme, if you haven’t already done so. This programme will aim to ensure you are competent and confident in delivering care within the scope of your role. You will be expected to work effectively within the midwifery and multi-disciplinary team and collaborate and communicate effectively in the clinical area.
As part of this role you will undertake in-house training and development whilst mentoring junior staff new to the department. In addition the Trust provides excellent opportunities and benefits to our world-class workforce and offers a wide range of staff benefits that can be enjoyed either at work or elsewhere.
If this sounds like you and you have the experience and confidence to undertake this role, then we would like to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
- To assist and support the registered midwife/nurse, under supervision, with the delivery of direct patient care, with the needs of the women and baby at the centre of care delivery
- To improve the patient experience
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- QCF Level 3 Qualification in Health or equivalent (NVQ3, Advanced Apprenticeship)
- Numerate Experience
- Experience of working
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with mothers and babies
- Up to date experience: worked within a maternity setting within the last 18 months
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate a clear insight into the role
- Ability to work well within a team
- Ability to perform venepuncture
Desirable criteria
- Ability to work on own initiative
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-Louise Botterill
- Job title
- Professional Development Midwife, MSW Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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