Community Support Worker - Community Midwifery

The role is based within the wider Community Midwifery team, working closely with the Community Midwives. As a Community Support Worker you would help to promote and support women to initiate and maintain breastfeeding for longer. Amongst the wider divisional team, you with ensure the ongoing UNICEF Baby Friendly accreditation and strive for ongoing improvement. Carry out clinics for new born blood spot screening and provide administrative support to the team and the community/continuity managers.

We are looking to recruit a Community Support Worker who is passionate about caring for women and families and is innovative to support the constant evolution of our service to better the experience for women and families. We are a friendly and approachable team who want to hear from you if you feel you would contribute to the service we provide.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of local hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester boroughs (population 357K).

The Trust provides high quality planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care as well as child health, maternity services, and intermediate care across our sites at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford. The Trust provides 500 beds and employs over 5,000 members of staff.
An extensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools by our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance. With the formation of Integrated Care Systems in July 2022 the Trust became a strategic partner in both Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester 'places' and is part of the Cheshire and Merseyside partnership caring for a population of over 2.7million.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its 'Be Safe Be EquiPPEd' campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.

At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.