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Maternity Care Coordinator
The closing date is 03 August 2025
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Continuity of care team as a band 4 Midwifery Care coordinator. The role will support women by delivering public health information and elements of clinical care. You will be responsible for liaising with the multidisciplinary teams, external agencies and ensuring women's needs are met.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting new role to provide both hands on clinical support and develop the service. You will collaborate with the midwifery team to develop pathways into specialist services within the health authority and third-sector support organisations, addressing social needs such as housing, access to healthcare, and public health initiatives aimed at enhancing well-being for vulnerable families.
About us
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
* The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
* Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
* Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 5916 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 411,000. This includes 361,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
Job responsibilities
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costswill be deducted from their salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
Good luck with your application.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Evidence of recent learning
* Equivalent NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in health-related studies
* NVQ 3 or working towards
Knowledge
* Ability to communicate verbally and in writing
* Ability to develop good working relationships with a wide range of people and organisations in the statutory and voluntary sectors, including community groups and users.
* Ability to collaborate openly with parents and to be committed to community Participation
* Confidence to work flexibly and to challenge established ways of working and organisational structures
* Knowledge of awareness if issues relating to the needs of different groups within the community.
* Word processing and computer skills
Experience
* At least two years experience working with women and families
* Participated in multiagency training
* Experience of working with women from inner city and diverse communities
* Experience of participating in parenting programmes on both an individual and group basis.
* Previous experience of working with hard- to reach- groups in a health service or public health background
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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