About this role
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Maternity team as an Apprentice Maternity Support Worker (MSW). The successful candidates will be based within the maternity unit at Cramlington Hospital, learning how to support the midwifery staff and the wider MDT to provide care to women and their families in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period.
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.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Minimum of 5 GCSE's grade A-C (9-3) must include English and Maths
Desirable
A level education Care Certificate
Experience Essential
Previous health or social care experience (preferably in a healthcare setting)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details Employer name Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust
Cramlington
NE23 6NZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)