Maternity Support Worker - Specialist Midwifery Team
| Posting date: | 18 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,937 - £26,598 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 17 August 2025 |
| Location: | Calderdale and Huddersfield, HX3 0PW |
| Company: | Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7349941/372-FSS2823-A |
Summary
A Vacancy at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Midwifery Support Worker to join the Community Midwifery Team to support some of our most vulnerable families on a fixed term or secondment opportunity for 12 months.
The post holder will work in partnership with and assist community midwives and the wider multi-agency teams in the care of pregnant mothers, babies and their families in the community.
You will work with diverse groups of pregnant women to assess, deliver, evaluate and implement agreed programmes of care with supervisory guidance from a registered midwife within agreed policies and protocols.
The post holder will have been assessed as competent to complete the duties and responsibilities.
• To provide care that respects women’s privacy, dignity, culture and ethnicity, maintaining appropriate confidentiality in a variety of settings including family homes and Children’s Centre’s. Promote the Directorate’s philosophy of respect for the varied physical, emotional and spiritual needs of mothers and their partners, providing inclusive care.
• To provide advice as appropriate within own sphere/limitations of practice.
• To promote monitor and maintain health, safety and security of women, their families, colleagues and self in the work place.
• Participate in health promotion activities including smoking cessation, diet, active lifestyles and breast feeding.
• Support the Midwife in providing a wide range of parent education appropriate to the needs of women and their families.
• Encourage and support women and their partners to actively engage and be responsible for their own health and well-being and that of their baby.
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
• Assist the midwife at antenatal clinics including providing health education advice; undertaking venepuncture; making appointments.
• Assist in some observations as requested by the midwife for example taking blood pressure.
• Assist the midwife with parent education as appropriate.
• Assist in the presentation of virtual tours or undertake tours of the Maternity Unit/Birth Centres, if needed by individual client groups.
• Assist the midwife with observations as appropriate to role.
• Implement packages of care with families, which include providing assistance/advice regarding feeding, hygiene, safety and support the establishment of parenting skills.
• Assist and advise the mother on infant care to enable her to ensure optimum progress and well-being of the newborn infant.
• Participate in health promotion activities including smoking cessation, diet, breast feeding and parenting skills.
• Assist the mother with her choice of infant feeding ensuring adherence to the Trust Baby Friendly Policy.
• Undertake procedures such as newborn blood spot provided the midwife has explained and consented the mother in relation to the procedure.
• Work with the community maternity support worker team to undertake administration tasks.
This advert closes on Sunday 20 Jul 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Midwifery Support Worker to join the Community Midwifery Team to support some of our most vulnerable families on a fixed term or secondment opportunity for 12 months.
The post holder will work in partnership with and assist community midwives and the wider multi-agency teams in the care of pregnant mothers, babies and their families in the community.
You will work with diverse groups of pregnant women to assess, deliver, evaluate and implement agreed programmes of care with supervisory guidance from a registered midwife within agreed policies and protocols.
The post holder will have been assessed as competent to complete the duties and responsibilities.
• To provide care that respects women’s privacy, dignity, culture and ethnicity, maintaining appropriate confidentiality in a variety of settings including family homes and Children’s Centre’s. Promote the Directorate’s philosophy of respect for the varied physical, emotional and spiritual needs of mothers and their partners, providing inclusive care.
• To provide advice as appropriate within own sphere/limitations of practice.
• To promote monitor and maintain health, safety and security of women, their families, colleagues and self in the work place.
• Participate in health promotion activities including smoking cessation, diet, active lifestyles and breast feeding.
• Support the Midwife in providing a wide range of parent education appropriate to the needs of women and their families.
• Encourage and support women and their partners to actively engage and be responsible for their own health and well-being and that of their baby.
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
• Assist the midwife at antenatal clinics including providing health education advice; undertaking venepuncture; making appointments.
• Assist in some observations as requested by the midwife for example taking blood pressure.
• Assist the midwife with parent education as appropriate.
• Assist in the presentation of virtual tours or undertake tours of the Maternity Unit/Birth Centres, if needed by individual client groups.
• Assist the midwife with observations as appropriate to role.
• Implement packages of care with families, which include providing assistance/advice regarding feeding, hygiene, safety and support the establishment of parenting skills.
• Assist and advise the mother on infant care to enable her to ensure optimum progress and well-being of the newborn infant.
• Participate in health promotion activities including smoking cessation, diet, breast feeding and parenting skills.
• Assist the mother with her choice of infant feeding ensuring adherence to the Trust Baby Friendly Policy.
• Undertake procedures such as newborn blood spot provided the midwife has explained and consented the mother in relation to the procedure.
• Work with the community maternity support worker team to undertake administration tasks.
This advert closes on Sunday 20 Jul 2025