Maternity Support Worker

🌟 Would you like to work in a developing and progressive team, committed to high-quality care, offering choice to women and families, and embracing change within our Maternity Services? 🤱✨

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual 💪😊 with excellent interpersonal skills 🤝, willing to work flexibly within the Maternity Delivery Suite setting 🏥.

Your Responsibilities

• Provide personalised care under the guidance of midwives and the delivery suite coordinator 🩺👩‍⚕️.
• Assist with:
• Personal hygiene & toileting 🚿🚻
• Continence aids & catheter care 💉
• Measuring output & specimen collection 🧪
• Moving, handling & mobility support ♿📦
• Patient positioning & safety 🛌🔒
• Monitoring and observing patients 👀📋
  

You will also support the productive operation of the birth environment 👶 by maintaining a safe, clean, and organized space 🧼🏡.

Why Join Us?

If you have a passion for providing high-quality care 💖, come and join our team of like-minded, experienced staff 🤗. Contribute to the excellent service

we provide for women, babies, and families 👩‍👧👨‍👩‍👧. We value our staff and prioritize support and job satisfaction 🙌✅.

Main duties of the job

• Provide Personalised Care: Deliver high-quality, tailored care 💖 in line with local and national standards 📋.
• Professional Representation: Present a positive image 🌟 of yourself, the team 🤝, and the organisation 🏥.
• Sample Collection: Take patient samples 🧪 (urine, sputum, faeces, MRSA swabs) for testing or dispatch.
• Nutrition Support: Assist patients with nutritional needs 🍽️, following their individual care plans.
• Patient Safety: Maintain safety 🔒 by adhering to health, safety, and security guidelines ✅.
• Care Standards: Support high standards of care 🏆 to enhance patient experience and outcomes.
• Equality in Care: Promote equality 🤲 by respecting and meeting individual needs and choices.
• Clean Environment: Contribute to a safe, clean, and productive care environment 🧼, meeting hygiene standards.
• Effective Communication: Share relevant information 🔄 with Registered Midwives professionally and promptly.
• Continuous Development: Maintain and develop your own skills and competence 📚💪.

Issue Resolution: Actively address issues and complaints 🛠️ locally, and report outcomes to your line manage

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Hannah Mercer Job title: Delivery Suite Manager Email address: hannah.mercer@lthtr.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01772524219