Maternity Support Worker Band 3

1 week ago


Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

A rare opportunity has arisen to join the Maternity Support Worker team who works closely with the midwifery team and newborn screening to deliver clinical and therapeutic care to women and babies within set protocols and remit.


Additional Contact Information:

Name:
Kiki Mak

Job Title:
Newborn Screening Local Manager

Phone Number:


The maternity support workers delivers a day 5 postnatal care to the women and babies, as well as other postnatal support within the midwifery team such as day 3/9 postnatal visits.

As part of the day 5 responsibilities, the MSW will carry out the newborn hearing screening and bloodspot for the babies, provide safe feeding advice and support, check baby's weight and jaundice assessment.

There are other clinical responsibilities, please see job description for all the details.


We work as a close team where communication is important to ensure all eligible babies are offered the newborn screening on baby's day 5.


There are 3 hubs, West, South & East to ensure all the babies across Gloucestershire are offered the newborn screening.

This post is for the West hub which means at large, the post holder will be covering Gloucester and Forest.

However, all the MSWs do cross cover across the county wherever staffing is required (sometimes at short notice).


It is important that babies are appropriately offered, seen and referred timely, so interventions and support can be in place during the baby's early stages of life.


The post-holder will under the management of the team, work as part of the multi-disciplinary team, providing care to patients as delegated by the registered practitioner.


The post-holder will assist with the assessment, investigation, and care of patients with the support of a qualified medical or midwifery practitioner, undertaking aspects of care within the competencies they have attained through formal and informal education and training.


The post holder will contribute to the provision of a high quality maternity service by providing competent and compassionate care to women and their families supporting the transition to parenthood.

See Job description attached for more information.

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