Maternity Care Assistant

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., 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.

• GCSE Maths and English Grades A-C, Levels 4-9, Functional Skills Level 2 or equivalent
• NVQ Level 2 in Health care or equivalent experience
• Commit to undertake in-house training / professional development
Desirable
• Care Certificate
Experience Essential
• Evidence of being able to work alone / under in-direct supervision
• Recent NHS experience
Desirable
• Understanding of safeguarding issues, Able to organise and prioritise own workload
• IT literate
• Knowledge of maternity care/services
• Knowledge of role of the Maternity Care Assistant
Desirable
• Knowledge of Baby Friendly Initiative.
• Understanding of the role and own professional boundaries
Demonstrates our Proud to CARE Values Essential
• Compassion, Ambition, Respect, Encouragement, Professional appearance and behaviour
• Awareness of confidentiality
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
  
  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.