Maternity Support Worker Apprentice- Community Midwifery

Role Overview & Responsibilities

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Community Midwifery team as an Apprentice Maternity Support Worker (MSW). The successful candidates will be based within the community teams, learning how to support the midwifery staff and the wider MDT to provide care to women and their families in the antenatal and postnatal period. Following completion of the apprenticeship the successful candidates will transition into an MSW Band 3 position and will work independently under indirect supervision of the Midwife to provide holistic care to the women and babies of Northumbria.

Some of the tasks will include:
To help maintain a clean and safe working environment. Carry out a range of clinical and non-clinical healthcare or therapeutic tasks, under the direct or indirect supervision of registered Midwives.

Provide high quality, compassionate healthcare, following standards, policies or protocols and always acting within the limits of your competence and needs of the department.

To maintain high clinical standards in line with the Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers.

After a period of learning within a healthcare environment you will work toward the on-programme requirements of the MSW Apprenticeship Standard.

This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.

Provide high quality, compassionate healthcare, following standards, policies or protocols and always acting within the limits of your competence and needs of the department.

Carry out a range of clinical and non-clinical healthcare or therapeutic tasks, under the direct or indirect supervision of registered healthcare practitioners.

Duties will be delegated to you in line with care plans.

The role is undertaken following a period of experience in healthcare so you are able to demonstrate best practice and act as a role model.

You will treat people with dignity, respecting people’s diversity, beliefs, culture, needs, values, privacy and preferences.

You will show respect and empathy for those you work with, have the courage to challenge areas of concern and work to best practice.

You will be adaptable, reliable and consistent, show discretion, show resilience and self-awareness and show supervisory leadership within the limits of your competence.

To attend and participate in structured teaching/theory sessions to gain the identified on-programme educational requirements for a Level 3 apprenticeship.

You are accountable for your work and for reviewing the effectiveness of your actions.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Help registered Midwives deliver healthcare services to people.
Carry out a range of clinical and non-clinical healthcare or therapeutic tasks, under the direct or indirect supervision of registered Midwives. Provide high quality, compassionate healthcare, following standards, policies or protocols and always acting within the limits of your competence and needs of the department. After a period of learning within a healthcare environment you will work toward the on-programme requirements of the MSW Apprenticeship Standard.
To maintain high clinical standards in line with the Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers. To help maintain a clean and safe ward environment.