Maternity Support Worker

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!
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
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.
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.