Job Overview The Bluebell team is pleased to announce an opportunity to join the Maidenhead community team as a Maternity Care Assistant. The successful applicant will join the Maidenhead community team as a Band 3 Maternity Care Assistant on a full-time basis (37.5 hours/week). This is an internal vacancy looking for an experienced Band 3 Maternity Care Assistant to work within a busy community team and to assist midwives with the support of women throughout their antenatal and postnatal journey. Main duties of the job The role will involve visiting women in their homes with their new baby, taking new born bloodspot samples and assisting with baby care and infant feeding. You will be a front-line ambassador for public health issues, also working in hubs as they develop in each area. Some administrative duties will be expected in order to support the Midwives and full training will be given. You should be level headed, able to stay calm in a busy environment and work on your own initiative with minimum supervision, have good customer care skills and plenty of energy, patience and motivation and you will need to demonstrate care and compassion to women. Previous experience is essential and you must have undertaken the Maternity Care Assistants care certificate course. You must have attended the maternity specific training days and passed the BFI two day training. You must be either working with evidence towards The MCA Passport or have already achieved this. Working for our organisation Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too. We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users. Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities Please see the attached Job description for a full list of roles and responsibilities. As a Band 3 Maternity Care Assistant you will be an integral member of the multidisciplinary team in the community, where you will provide support to midwifery staff in the direct provision and support of patient care. You will also provide a range of non-midwifery duties ensuring an efficient service to the ward and community at all times. As we have the privilege of serving a diverse community here in Slough, we would particularly love to receive applications from candidates who are able to speak local languages, but this is not essential. Ability to drive is essential. Person specification Qualification Essential criteria Current Maternity care assistant Training Essential criteria Maternity Specific training days Infant feeding training Desirable criteria Completed MCA Passport of competencies Education Essential criteria Care Certificate Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities. We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park. We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment. Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future. Apply online now