Nursing Assistants & Maternity Support Workers (Band 2/3) Manchester, England
Job description
People become Nursing Assistants and Maternity Support Workers at MFT for lots of very good reasons. The satisfaction of caring for patients and parents-to-be is one of them. Starting a rewarding NHS career is another.
Join us and, working flexibly across a range of day and night shifts, providing compassionate care to people when they need you most.
Ideally, you’ll already have some caring experience. You might have gained this in a healthcare or social care setting, or the service industry. Or you might be a carer or guardian outside of work. It’s all relevant and useful experience. If you’ve got the personal skills, resilience, and work ethic we’re looking for, it’s a good start.
If you’ve already got qualifications like the National Care Certificate or Level 2 Apprenticeship in healthcare, that’s great. But don’t worry, our Clinical Support Worker Development Programme will support you to gain the skills and knowledge you need. After this training, you’ll be a well-prepared and fully qualified Nursing Assistant or Maternity Support Worker, with the opportunity to train and progress.
Enjoy a career where you can learn, train, and grow more than you ever thought possible. You’ll have some of the best benefits you’ll find anywhere, and job security in these uncertain times. And you’ll finish every shift knowing you’ve made lives better for the people you’ve cared for.
Whatever you’re looking for in a rewarding career, it really is all here for you.
Whether you join us as a Nursing Assistant or Maternity Support Worker, you’ll make sure our patients have the quality care and support they deserve.
These roles are vital and varied. As a Nursing Assistant, you might work with patients who have a physical disability, have dementia or who suffer from anxiety. In Maternity Support, you could play a key role in supporting women with all aspects of infant feeding. Whatever reason a loved one is in hospital, it takes its toll on their family too. You’ll treat every person you come across with dignity, respect, kindness, and patience.
You’ll be there to help with things like washing and dressing, eating, and drinking, moving around and getting to the toilet. You’ll also monitor conditions of patients taking temperature and pulse, checking respiration, and measuring weight. As well as helping create the right conditions for patients to rest and sleep, you’ll make sure that people have any religious and cultural needs met.
More specific responsibilities will include:
- Making patients and their relatives feel welcome, safe, and supported.
- Communicating with and co-ordinating patients, relatives, and healthcare practitioners.
- Keeping patient notes and charts updated, along with any other clerical and admin tasks.
- Helping patients, carers and relatives take an active role in their care.
- Maintaining the highest health and safety standards in the ward and other patient care settings.
We share our knowledge, skills, and resources to be the best for our patients, and each other. Wherever you join us, you’ll work side-by-side with a diverse range of colleagues, help people from all walks of life, and learn every single day.
We want you to feel you can bring your whole self to MFT. So, we nurture a culture of inclusion and belonging and provide equal opportunities for career progression. From our commitment to training and development, to the facilities at our sites, we take pride in creating the most caring environment for colleagues as well as our patients. Here, you’ll know that your health, wellbeing, and safety matter too, and that you have a voice in shaping the future of our Trust.
We’ll be here for you in every aspect of your day-to-day work – and throughout your MFT career. If you want to train to be a Nurse or Midwife, and develop through the Bands, we’ll support you to achieve your goals.
Just as valuable as the training and development will be the people you meet and bond with – making great friends among your new colleagues and thriving in an environment where team spirit is everything.
At Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), our Nursing Assistants and Maternity Support Workers take great pride in the essential work we do. That’s because we’re not just helping patients, we’re going the extra mile for them – day in, day out. But more than that, our team’s commitment to work with empathy, consideration and dignity means that we’re among the best – and most compassionate – in our field.
On joining MFT, you’ll be supported to develop your knowledge and skills through our Support Worker Development Programme for Nursing Assistants and Maternity Support Workers that includes completion of the Care Certificate for candidates who have not completed this previously. The great news is the completion of the Support Worker Development Programme will give you the opportunity to progress into a Band 3 Nursing Assistant or Maternity Support Worker role.
If you’re a more experienced Nursing Assistant or Maternity Support Worker seeking a new opportunity in a Band 3 role, you’ll undertake a skills analysis when you start to identify any gaps in your clinical skills knowledge needed for your role. You’ll then be supported to access relevant modules from the clinical skills programme to support your progression to a Band 3 post on completion.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit your application form.
If you haven’t done already, visit our dedicated landing page here: https://mft.nhs.uk/careers/roles/live-recruitment-campaigns/nursing-assistants-maternity-support-workers-roles/
This one stop shop will tell you all about the role of a Nursing Assistant/Maternity Support Worker; and outline what’s in it for you should you join us.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
