• Job Description

  Req#: C9153-25-0756?language=en&page=270&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Do you have a passion for women's health and supporting women, their babies and families throughout pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period?

  Our maternity services are evolving with our plans to move to Bournemouth in 2025, we are looking to grow our team with maternity support workers.

  We are looking for candidates who are prepared to work a variety of shifts including nights, weekends and bank holidays, no two days are the same in maternity and we provide a 24 hour, 365 day a year service.

  Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital

  Interview Date: TBC

  This vacancy may close early due the high interest in this role

  Main duties of the job

  Main duties including providing kind and compassionate care including clinical observations, infant feeding, mental health and wellbeing support, housekeeping duties.

  For community duties you would need access to your own transport and will be support midwives care for women and babies in their own homes and/or in designated clinics of which all training will be given.

  In the hospital setting you will be a team player, working independently within scope of job and supported by a wonderful maternity team.

  If you think this role could be for you, feel free to get in touch, in return UHD can offer further developmental training and long term career opportunities with attractive annual leave allowance and other staff benefits.

  About us

  Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues. UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme. This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.

  Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and conditions.

  Details

  Date posted

  07 July 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 3

  Salary

  £24,625 to £25,674 a year pa

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working, Compressed hours

  Reference number

  153-SP04773

  Job locations

  BEACH Building

  Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Castle Lane EAst

  Bournemouth

  BH7 7DW

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  • Clinical observations
  • Personal Care
  • Cleaning duties and general housekeeping
  • Supporting diet and nutrition
  • Stock replenishment
  • Signposting women and families for appropriate support
  • Answering the telephone
  • Escalating concern

  To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  • Clinical observations
  • Personal Care
  • Cleaning duties and general housekeeping
  • Supporting diet and nutrition
  • Stock replenishment
  • Signposting women and families for appropriate support
  • Answering the telephone
  • Escalating concern

  To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Good standard of numeracy and literacy
  • Completed care certificate or willingness to undertake and complete within 12 weeks of joining the department
  • Completion of a competency-based workbook or equivalent relevant experience to vocational level 3.

  Desirable

  • Short courses to undertake patient and clinical care duties

  Experience

  Essential

  • Ability to adapt and learn in a health care environment
  • Previous experience of working within maternity or a similar setting within the NHS
  • Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
  • Experience of working with the public

  Desirable

  • Previous experience of working within a care environment/NHS
  • Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
  • Experience of working with the public

  Skills

  Essential

  • IT literate
  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively (to understand and be understood)
  • Ability to work as part of a team, as well as on own initiative.
  • An understanding around basic patient care
  • Ability to exchange factual information accurately

  Desirable

  • Venepuncture and cannulation

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Good standard of numeracy and literacy
  • Completed care certificate or willingness to undertake and complete within 12 weeks of joining the department
  • Completion of a competency-based workbook or equivalent relevant experience to vocational level 3.

  Desirable

  • Short courses to undertake patient and clinical care duties

  Experience

  Essential

  • Ability to adapt and learn in a health care environment
  • Previous experience of working within maternity or a similar setting within the NHS
  • Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
  • Experience of working with the public

  Desirable

  • Previous experience of working within a care environment/NHS
  • Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
  • Experience of working with the public

  Skills

  Essential

  • IT literate
  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively (to understand and be understood)
  • Ability to work as part of a team, as well as on own initiative.
  • An understanding around basic patient care
  • Ability to exchange factual information accurately

  Desirable

  • Venepuncture and cannulation

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Employer details

  Employer name

  University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  BEACH Building

  Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Castle Lane EAst

  Bournemouth

  BH7 7DW

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.uhd.nhs.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  BEACH Building

  Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Castle Lane EAst

  Bournemouth

  BH7 7DW

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.uhd.nhs.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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