Community Maternity Support Worker (Community Midwifery)

The post holder will provide support to a maternity team, mothers and their families. He / She will carry out assigned tasks involving direct care including information giving, guidance and reassurance, assistance and support to women and their families to improve the quality of care as planned by the midwife. Candidates will be required to work on calls to support the service and provide care to women/birthing people. The post holder will be expected to supervise and guide less experienced staff.

An opportunity has become available for an experienced health care assistant to work within our community midwifery team. The maternity support worker will be providing care to women and their families in their own homes in the postnatal period and supporting community midwives providing antenatal care. This is a great development opportunity for band 2 support workers to gain some extra experience.Good communication skills are essential and also a willingness to embrace change and be passionate about offering a good quality service supporting women in their choices.Candidates should have recent/current experience in healthcare at band 2 or above . Completion of Trust's band 2 Care Competencies (Care Certificate) or equivalent level of competence is required for this role.

It essential as part of the role to be a car owner and have a full drivers licence.

The role includes on call duties, it is essential that candidates are able to commit to on calls.

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of hospital services for the population of Reading, Newbury, Wokingham and the towns and villages of West Berkshire.

At our heart we are a local hospital that works with NHS and social care partners to provide excellent healthcare services for over 500,000 people who currently live in our catchment area. We also provide specialist hospital services beyond the county's borders.

We employ more than 5,500 staff from 39 different nationalities and deliver care from a network of facilities across sites in Bracknell, Henley-on-Thames, Reading, Thatcham and Windsor.

Each year we are responsible for efficiently and effectively spending more than £400m of NHS resources on the services we provide.

As a founder member of the Berkshire West Integrated Care System, we are one of NHS England's demonstrator sites for integration between primary, community, mental health and acute healthcare services.