Maternity Care Assistant

Our whole maternity service is exciting and innovative and due to this, we have received awards for our service and midwives and have maintained a CQC rating of good since 2017 with our latest report by the CQC in January 2024 awarding us outstanding for Leadership and commending us on being a dynamic, culturally astute and inclusive place to work.
This role comprises of working within a variety of settings, mainly on delivery suite, supporting midwives and the team by maintaining a safe clinical environment. This will include assisting clients with nutritional and hygiene needs, computer admissions and discharges, theatre duties and general housekeeping. All our staff work within our Trust Values, treating all women and their families with respect and compassion and providing high quality, safe effective care., You will be involved in maintaining high standards of cleanliness and hygiene within all clinical areas i.e. cleaning delivery rooms, equipment, making beds and keeping a good stock supply.
You will assist the midwives in the care of women/birthing people antenatally, during labour and postnatally to ensure that planned programmes of care are provided, this may include maintaining the general personal hygiene needs of women/birthing people where required such as toileting, bed bathing and oral hygiene.
You will be taught to be aware of the general condition and wellbeing of women/birthing people and babies by close observation so you can report any deviation from the norm immediately to a qualified member of the multi-professional team.
You will assist women/birthing people and their partners in the care of their babies, i.e. nappy changing, bathing and infant feeding, including supporting women/birthing people to breast feed their babies and give them the advice and assistance they require according to the national and trust guidelines.
You may also be required to escort patients to different clinical areas within the unit.
You will assist in the provision of food and drink to women/birthing people if required.
Although you will be based on Labour ward, you may need to work in other areas if required by service needs, this may also incorporate some admin work including the documenting of care you have given.

Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream
As a team we are respectful of our colleagues' views and work as a team to encourage innovation in all that we do. The CQC in their 2024 report quoted staff saying they 'feel well supported and valued within the team and work in a fair and inclusive environment'., The Maternity Care Assistant will be part of the multidisciplinary team in the clinical setting. The post
holder is working under the direct / indirect supervision of a midwife in providing a high quality service
that meets the needs of women/birthing people and their babies. They will contribute to ensuring a
safe and clean working environment.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham., These are new and progressive times within midwifery and currently Lewisham & Greenwich Trust Maternity Services have a great opportunity for a Maternity Care Assistant to join our Multi - Professional Team, in its deliverance of high-quality care to our women/birthing people and their families on our labour ward at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich.