Maternity Support Worker

4 months ago

StokeonTrent, United Kingdom University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust Full time

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 3 maternity support worker to join our community midwifery team. You will be part of a team of community midwives and maternity support workers who support and provide care to women during the antenatal and postnatal period.

You will also work collaboratively with the wider community team offering support where needed.

Are you passionate and committed to making a difference? Are you able to provide compassionate and targeted maternity support? This is an fantastic opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge within community midwifery

This post is community based so you must have access to a car. Includes weekend and bank holiday working
- Clinical
- To undertake tasks such as venepuncture and obtain capillary samples of blood via heel prick, including neonatal screening tests as delegated by the midwife
- Calculation of the mothers BMI
- Obtain urine samples from mothers and perform urinalysis
- Support women with general personal and oral hygiene
- Undertake, record routine maternal vital signs as delegated by the midwife, and report to the midwife any concerns: temp, pulse, respiratory rate and blood pressure
- Recognise signs of ill-health in mothers and babies and report immediately to midwife
- Promote skin-to-skin contact with healthy babies and their mothers/fathers
- Process microbiological specimens (e.g. from wounds)
- To support women in their chosen method of infant feeding in line with Unicef and Baby Friendly Initiative and report any concerns in relation to feeding to the midwife
- Position and comfort of breastfeeding women including the position and attachment of the baby
- Support women with hand expression of breast milk
- Assist women to use a breast pump
- Support mothers with artificial feeding including demonstration of how to prepare an artificial feed and equipment care
- Discuss changing stool and micturition of normal neonate
- Weigh baby and record and report any concerns immediately to midwife in order that a plan of care can be developed
- Skin care including awareness of the potential seriousness of skin rashes

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. We serve around three million people and we’re highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. The Trust has around 1,450 inpatient beds across two sites in Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford. Our 11,000 strong workforce provide emergency treatment, planned operations and medical care from Royal Stoke University Hospital and County Hospital in Stafford.

We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales. We have put together a wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their potential. Our goal is to be a world-class centre of achievement, where patients receive the highest standards of care and the best people come to learn, work and research.

Clinical
- If required, perform basic adult or neonatal life support competently until further assistance is available or assist midwives in an emergency situation e.g. telephone for urgent help/fetch equipment
- Provide postnatal advice to women in relation to bladder care, including removal of urinary catheters, following ASQUAM Bladder care guidelines
- Provide routine, basic postnatal discharge information as delegated by midwife
- Follow plan of care as devised by midwife in relation to the care of premature babies
- Report any concerns regarding safeguarding to the midwife on duty or other appropriate registered professional or Named Midwife for safeguarding
- Observe and advise mother on care of cord including recognition of abnormalities and reporting these to a midwife
- Recognise and report to a midwife potential signs of neonatal jaundice, undertaking Minolta readings and reporting findings to allow for a plan of care to be developed

Communication
- Act in an approachable and professional manner to all mothers and their families and extended professionals involved in providing holistic care
- Provide one to one information, advice and support to vulnerable or high risk mothers in respect of public health, breast and artificial feeding, parenting skills and family adjustment
- Promote healthy living through the provision of information and advice as required and directed on: nutritional health, postnatal diet and smoking cessation, public health, travel safety and sudden infant death syndrome
- Inform parents of benefits of breast feeding
- Immediately refer patients anxieties, potential problems or complaints to the midwife or signpost to the appropriate service/agency in line with Trust Policy
- Provide appropriate advice, within their level of knowledge, to parents in aspects of parenting in relation to the baby’s wellbeing and safety
- Awareness of other agencies that offer social and health support, liaising with multi-agency team as necessary
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