Main area Midwifery Support Worker - Specialist Midwifery Team Grade NHS AfC: Band 3 Contract 12 months (12 month fixed term or secondment) Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (up to 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday - flexibility required) Job ref 372-FSS2823-A
Employer Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Community (Calderdale and Huddersfield) Town Calderdale and Huddersfield Salary £24,937 - £26,598 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 20/07/2025 23:59
Maternity Support Worker - Specialist Midwifery Team
NHS AfC: Band 3
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics.
We are committed to recruiting to our values. Leading One Culture of Care underpins our values by creating an environment, tone and behaviours across all parts of the Trust that are fundamentally rooted in compassionate care.
We are open to considering a wide range of flexible working arrangements. There are opportunities to flex the days of the week, hours and times of work and place of work including: part-time, job-share, flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home when appropriate. Please talk to us during the interview process to discuss any flexibility that you may require.
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Our Future Plans
The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded capital funding to invest in local health services at both Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. This is a significant investment and an opportunity to enhance services for our populations in Calderdale and Huddersfield and West Yorkshire for generations to come. To find out more, please visithttps://future.cht.nhs.uk/
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Midwifery Support Worker to join the Community Midwifery Team to support some of our most vulnerable families on a fixed term or secondment opportunity for 12 months.
The post holder will work in partnership with and assist community midwives and the wider multi-agency teams in the care of pregnant mothers, babies and their families in the community.
You will work with diverse groups of pregnant women to assess, deliver, evaluate and implement agreed programmes of care with supervisory guidance from a registered midwife within agreed policies and protocols.
The post holder will have been assessed as competent to complete the duties and responsibilities.
Main duties of the job
* To provide care that respects women’s privacy, dignity, culture and ethnicity, maintaining appropriate confidentiality in a variety of settings including family homes and Children’s Centre’s. Promote the Directorate’s philosophy of respect for the varied physical, emotional and spiritual needs of mothers and their partners, providing inclusive care.
* To provide advice as appropriate within own sphere/limitations of practice.
* To promote monitor and maintain health, safety and security of women, their families, colleagues and self in the work place.
* Participate in health promotion activities including smoking cessation, diet, active lifestyles and breast feeding.
* Support the Midwife in providing a wide range of parent education appropriate to the needs of women and their families.
* Encourage and support women and their partners to actively engage and be responsible for their own health and well-being and that of their baby.
Working for our organisation
We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS– yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff andthe local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Assist the midwife at antenatal clinics including providing health education advice; undertaking venepuncture; making appointments.
* Assist in some observations as requested by the midwife for example taking blood pressure.
* Assist the midwife with parent education as appropriate.
* Assist in the presentation of virtual tours or undertake tours of the Maternity Unit/Birth Centres, if needed by individual client groups.
* Assist the midwife with observations as appropriate to role.
* Implement packages of care with families, which include providing assistance/advice regarding feeding, hygiene, safety and support the establishment of parenting skills.
* Assist and advise the mother on infant care to enable her to ensure optimum progress and well-being of the newborn infant.
* Participate in health promotion activities including smoking cessation, diet, breast feeding and parenting skills.
* Assist the mother with her choice of infant feeding ensuring adherence to the Trust Baby Friendly Policy.
* Undertake procedures such as newborn blood spot provided the midwife has explained and consented the mother in relation to the procedure.
* Work with the community maternity support worker team to undertake administration tasks.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
* English and Math GCSE grade 9-2 (A*-E) or equivalent or high level of literacy and numeracy skills demonstrated within application
* Competence based level 3 qualification e.g. NVQ or Diploma in Care or The Care Certificate issued by an employer
* Willingness to undertake any training or development relevant to the role
* BFI Training or equivalent
* Basic counselling skills/training
* Training in safeguarding
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
* Demonstrate a commitment to a caring profession
* Understands the importance of record keeping
* Ability to work under pressure
* Experience of working with birthing people and families
* Insight into the roles and responsibilities of the post
* Experience of working within the NHS
* Experience of providing high quality care
* Experience of working across interprofessional or multidisciplinary teams and different organisations
* Experience of working with migrant, asylum seekers and refugee people
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)
* Ability to communicate appropriately in written and spoken English
* Friendly, honest and approachable
* Compassionate and kind
* Good organisation skills
* Ability to speak additional languages
Our vision is to provide One Culture of Care for one another in order that we can provide compassionate care for the people who use our services. We are passionate about creating a workplace where we work together to get results, encouraging colleagues to have their say, in order to co create the change we want to see. We take pride in the diversity of our workforce that’s why we encourage applications from all.Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants.
Please ensure your application is submitted with referees who can verify your employment/education history over the last three years and include valid email addresses for them. We will request electronic Factual Employment References from your previous employers. These references will be requested before you are issued with an unconditional offer of employment letter.
Candidates who require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the United Kingdom can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this position by assessing their circumstances against the criteria specified on theCheck if you need a UK visa - GOV.UK website. We encourage all applicants to review these criteria carefully to understand their eligibility for sponsorship.
If you are appointed to a post, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system. The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and following interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable will be transferred from your current / most recent employer.
You may be required to undertake a DBS. The Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £54.40, Standard £26.40 or Basic £26.40) from your salary when you commence in post (including Internal staff). You will also be required to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £16 cost per year. This is a condition of your employment.
CHFT is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.
If you have any questions please contact ask.recruitment@cht.nhs.uk for assistance.
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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.
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