Job overview
Maternity Support Worker for Screening and Ultrasound- Andover
We are looking for an experienced healthcare worker to join our small team at Andover, working alongside a multidisciplinary team of sonographers, midwives and maternity support workers. You must be competent in phlebotomy and able to work collaboratively as a team.
Main duties of the job
1. Setting up scan and clinic room prior to clinic, maintaining stock levels, contributing to ordering as required
2. Ensure environment is clean, tidy and safe following any procedure.
3. Assisting consultant during Fetal medicine scans and procedures. Early assessment, Growth and fetal wellbeing and anomaly scans) following the relevant training.
4. Check patients into clinic and performing BP Urinalysis and CO monitoring. Documenting correctly into Badgernet
5. Phlebotomy as necessary including 1st Trimester screening bloods, pre op and Glucose Tolerance Test list. Documenting correctly into Badgernet
6. Ensure the environment is clean, tidy and safe for visitors and staff. Process requisitions for repairs/maintenance as necessary.
7. Contribute to maintaining stock levels and assist in ordering if required.
8. Clean and prepare equipment and facilities as appropriate, ensuring the safe handling and disposal of highly contaminate (bodily fluids) linen and waste.
9. Be aware of manual handling, fire, accident and emergency bleep procedures.
10. Participate in self-development to enhance the quality of the service and make a positive effort to keep informed of Trust matters by reading notices and attending mandatory study days, skills sessions and drills as they occur.
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information.
For further information please contact Lauren Brown on
Person specification
Education and Training
Essential criteria
11. Maths and English GCSE A-C or equivalent
12. Care Certificate
13. Level 3 study
Experience
Essential criteria
14. Current or recent role within Healthcare
15. Current or recent role within Maternity
Skills
Essential criteria
16. Venepuncture
17. Able to undertake basic maternal observations
18. Good range of IT skills
19. Good communication skills
Desirable criteria
20. Experience of using digital platforms to document patient care
21. Understanding of national screening programmes within Maternity