Maternity Support Worker (MSW)

The role of maternity support worker is to assist, support and work in collaboration with the midwife and the wider multidisciplinary team to providea safe and holistic approach to women-centred care. The post is rotational and the employee will be provided with appropriate training for theclinical setting in which they are working. These settings include antenatal, postnatal, inpatient and outpatient care, and intrapartum inpatient care.The post holder is expected to undertake a set of defined competencies including the 'care certificate'. This certificate ensures the minimum standards for the role are met and can further be incorporated into a 'skills passport'. Support will be given to employees to further develop theirskills and explore pathways for progression where appropriate.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone.Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of thispopulation, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation,and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion andother formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat ourpatients as well as being a better place to work.