Maternity Health care Support Worker

Maternity Health care Support Worker Salisbury, England

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Full Time Salisbury, England 21730 - 23177 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

To support midwives, neonatal nurses and other members of the multidisciplinary team in providing quality care that is safe and effective to women and babies using the service.
To provide care to women and babies using the Maternity and Neonatal services on allocation from and under the direct supervision of a registered midwife or nurse.
To provide support to midwives in all areas of the maternity and neonatal services on completion of specific training and competence where required.

We consider both Part-Time and Full-Time applications, but you MUST be flexible and able to cover a variety of shifts, both days and night as we operate 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.

  • To provide care to women, babies, and their families on allocation and under the supervision of a registered midwife or nurse within the maternity and neonatal services, and on completion of training and work based learning competences.
This will include:
Assisting women and babies with all activities of daily living, including:
Personal hygiene i.e. bathing, showering, nappy changing and baby bathing.
Emptying and removing urinary catheters (following completion of competency).
Maintaining mobility and movement, minimising the risk of pressure sore development by assisting women to move about whilst in bed.
  • Assisting with delivery of parenting education, including baby care and safety of the
newborn and feeding advice and support (following basic competence based training).
  • Support and promote breast feeding in line with current advice and following training.
  • Assisting with the care of women’s and babies nutritional needs, i.e. serving meals and drinks and assisting with infant feeding.
  • Under the direction of a midwife or nurse and on completion of mandatory training course carry out clinical observations on women and babies.
  • Utilising aseptic technique to undertake: removal of IV cannula.
Accompanying and sustaining safe transfer of women and babies between wards and departments.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Maternity Health care Support Worker
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

www.salisbury.nhs.uk
Salisbury, United Kingdom
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