Maternity Healthcare Support Worker - Bath
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to become a core member of our maternity team, as a band 3 Maternity support worker. Within this role you will support the acute maternity services to include the Antenatal Clinic area. If you are passionate about supporting registered practitioners to deliver high quality, compassionate care to people during pregnancy and post-natal period, then we want to hear from you.You will be working in partnership with women, birthing people and their families, to provide advice and support. We will help you develop a working knowledge of support services available to families.
For further information please contact Diane Butler Midwifery Sister.
[email protected]
Main duties of the job
Your day to day role will vary but will include; -- Gaining consent before providing care. -
- Looking after and removal of catheters - Venepuncture and taking cannulas out -
- observations - oxygen saturation levels, blood pressure monitoring, body temperature, pulse rate
- To understand these observations, documenting these both electronically and in the maternity health record, and acting on the information. -
- Supporting families in their choices for screening and immunisations Provide support and assist families in their choices for feeding their infants. -
- Participate in antenatal classes .
Working for our organisation
At the RUH we’re proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.
We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.
A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.
We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!
We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- NVQ or BETEC level 3 in health care
- Driving licence
- 2 years experience at band 3
- venepuncture course
skills and knowledge
Essential criteria- Understanding and ability to communicate in English
- customer focused approach
- numerical skills
- Able to manual handle
- maths GCSE or Equivalent
- english GCSE or Equivalent