Fetal Medicine Maternity Care Assistant | Barts Health NHS Trust

What we can offer you here at Newham is the opportunity to work in a busy east London hospital with support from a variety of specialist posts and senior maternity team. We are friendly and innovative team, privileged to have extensive investment in our maternity workforce to support you. With a large team of senior midwives, consultant midwives, specialist midwives and new exciting posts, which is a fantastic opportunity for you. We are absolutely committed to ensuring that women, and our staff, have a positive experience of our maternity service.

As part of the recruitment process for this post, candidates will be required to complete an online literacy and numeracy test and only if they pass this, will they be invited to a formal interview.

The postholder will support the Fetal Medicine Team during clinics in performing tasks like urinalysys, vital signs, and tyding up the rooms ready for the next clients to maintain and deliver high quality care to clients and their families. The postholder is key in ensuring good communication with women and their families, prompt escalation of concerns to the allocated midwife or ward managers to ensure and maintain safety of clients, families, and the clinical area.

We have a state of the art simulation centre to support high fidelity multi-disciplinary obstetric emergency training, as well as a bespoke and comprehensive in-service education programme. At Barts health we are committed to equal opportunities.

The band 2 MCA Fetal Medicine Unit post is suitable for those healthcare professionals who have an experience of working in an acute 'care' environment and those who want to consolidate their training and gain experience and skills in this clinical setting.

If you have good communication skills and ability to work within the multidisciplinary team, ten this job position is for you.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.