Acute Maternity Support Worker / Trainee Maternity Support Worker

• Assist with the preparation and care of women who require operativebirth procedures.
• Support the medical and midwifery team in general delivery rooms at birth and immediate postnatal period.
• Working on the inpatient ward assisting with care.
• Working in antenatal areas across the maternity unit.
• Basic maternal and neonatal observations.
• Venepuncture and neonatal blood samples.
• Catheterisation.
• Contemporaneous documentation.
• Assist with general hygiene, nutrition and infant feeding support.
• Undertake general housekeeping duties to maintain cleanliness andsafe stock levels.
• Communicate with families and the multi-disciplinary team.
• Escalate concerns to appropriate multi-professional team members.

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Essential

• GCSE English Level 4 or above or grade C or above at GCSE/O Level or functional skills
• GCSE Maths Level 4 or above or grade C or above at GCSE/O Level or functional skills