Maternity Care AssistantNHS

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for a motivated individual to join the Maternity team at Chesterfield Royal Hospital as a Maternity Care Assistant.

This post is for a fixed |term of 9 months to cover maternity leave

The role provides support to Midwives ensuring that women receive high standards of maternity care throughout our service.

This is a rotational post within the maternity unit at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital is a baby friendly accredited maternity unit, applicants must be committed to supporting mothers with infant feeding providing education to both breast and formula feeding mothers.

Candidates will be supported with their learning and development needs with a comprehensive induction and training programme.

Applicants must also demonstrate excellent communication skills and the ability to work under their own initiative as part of the multi-professional team.

Applicants must also have recent NHS experience.

The post holder will be required to work a shift pattern that covers the twenty four hour period including weekends and Bank holidays.

Main duties of the job

To support and assist hospital-based midwives in the provision of high quality, evidence-based care to women and their families, during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods. Under the supervision of the midwife, the post-holder will be competent to provide direct care to women and their babies, support women with their chosen method of infant feeding and teach specific parenting skills.

Job description

Please refer to the job description and person specification for the full qualifications, skills and experience required for this post.

About us

Our vision: Exceptional patient care provided by exceptional people.

Our mission: To bring our people communities and partners together, providing patient care we are proud of. We all play a part in achieving this, by living up to the values we promise to our patients and each other. As members of staff we will always be guided by our Proud to CARE values:

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a well performing Foundation Trust serving a population of around 441,000 across the Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak and North East Derbyshire districts. With a workforce of around 3,800 staff and good financial control, currently operating with a positive financial surplus and was recently rated "Good" by the CQC .

We are committed to working with our partners in health and social care to deliver long term financial sustainability and resilience in our performance to ensure we provide high quality services and excellent patient care.