Maternity Care Assistant

2 weeks ago

Swansea, City and County of Swansea, United Kingdom Swansea Bay University Health Board Full time

The Midwifery team at Swansea Bay delivers a high quality, family centred service to our community thanks to the great work of our Midwives and support team, including our Maternity Care Assistants.


As we continue to develop our service, we are looking to expand our Maternity Care Assistant team (MCA's) and have a number of Band 3 roles available for talented individuals who want to build a career with us.


If you have an existing training qualification in Maternity Care (minimum of Qualification Credit Framework - QCF Level 3 (formerly NVQ) we will help you develop a breadth of skills to enable you to work within antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care in both hospital and community settings.

We will be holding a applicant Q&A session for this role

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The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.


Swansea Bay University Health Board covers a population of around 390,000 in Neath/Port Talbot and Swansea areas and we have a budget of around £1bn.

Our values were developed by listening to our service users, the community and our staff. They show our commitment to equality and are at the centre of everything we do.

These are; caring for each other, working together and always improving and this is something that we in maternity service, strive for each and every day.

Singleton Hospital, overlooking Swansea Bay, hosts a range of maternity services across the site. Theses include;
- antenatal clinics,
- day assessment unit,
- acute assessment unit,
- ante-natal ward,
- our midwifery led bay birth unit,
- labour ward,
- post natal ward,
- obstetric theatre
- close links with our tertiary neonatal unit on site and transitionary care unit on antenatal ward.

Alongside Singleton Hospital we have a Community Midwifery Team who support patients in the community.

Neath/Port Talbot Hospital was opened in 2003 and has roughly 200 beds.

Our Maternity services in NPT comprise of:

  • Antenatal clinics
  • Day Assessment Unit
  • Midwifery Led Unit
We also have a Community Midwifery Team in Neath/Port Talbot who will support patients in the community.

Delivering care to the women, baby and family

The Maternity Care Assistant plays a key role in the delivery of safe, high quality and personalised health care, within the course of their duties the post holder will:

  • Assist the registered midwife in the assessment, on-going assessment, management and evaluation of care for women.
  • Under direction of the registered midwife, supports appropriate individualised, clinical/risk assessments providing accurate feedback as necessary.
  • Partake in the routine admission, transfer and discharge of women in accordance with Health Board policies; supporting the registered midwife to perform effective and timely discharge planning.
  • Deliver safe, high quality, compassionate care following individualised care plans and treatment interventions determined by the registered midwife. This will include supporting women with all aspects of the fundamentals of care including activities of daily living, providing feedback to the midwife on progress against the plans.
  • Promote good hand hygiene and minimise the spread of infection. Take responsibility and accountability for own infection prevention control practice in line with health board Infection Prevention & Control policy and guidance.
  • Ensure the cleanliness of equipment in all clinical and nonclinical areas and assist the registered midwife in appropriately preparing the environment.
  • Carry out specific delegated clinical and care tasks and responsibilities to a high standard and competency, under the direction and supervision of a registered midwife, This will include:
  • Routine maternal vital signs and recording (temperature, manual blood pressure, pulse, oxygen saturation) calculation of MEWS score (Maternal Early Warning Score) and discuss appropriate action with the registered midwife in line with local protocols.
  • Point of Care Testing for identified routine monitoring: Urinalysis, blood glucose including responsibility for conducting compliance with both internal and external quality assessment of equipment.
  • Measuring maternal weight, height and calculation of Body Mass Index.
  • Measure and record baby weight. Report any concern immediately to the registered midwife in order that a plan of care can be developed.
  • Discuss changing stool and micturition of normal neonate with the registered midwife.
  • Carbon Monoxide monitoring and recording of results in all clinical areas.
  • Perform neonatal observations of billirubinometer and temperature readings on a low risk baby, reporting any deviations from the normal range.
  • Obtaining routine ECG.
  • Obtaining diagnostic samples: venous blood samples including Glucose Tolerance Testing, obtaining capillary blood samples from babies via heel prick.
  • Venous cannulation, where deemed appropriate in the role specific sc

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