Maternity Support Worker

Main area Maternity Grade NHS AfC:
Band 3 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity leave cover - End Date 17/7/2027) Hours Part time - 34.5 hours per week Job
-W&C-8305925

Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £25,760 - £27,476 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 30/10/2026 08:00

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Our values - We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Our values are:

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

We are recruiting for a Maternity Support Workers who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

You will provide direct delivery of clinical care to all patients and babies accessing maternity services.

Based within specialist and integrated teams such as theatres, foetal medicine and community hubs.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:
Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

You will ensure effective communication with colleagues, patients, and their families.

You will work to promote individualised care, specific to the needs of the patient and their family, acting as her advocate within the multidisciplinary team in the absence of the midwife.

Whilst working under the supervision of the designated midwife and part of a multidisciplinary team, undertakes the direct care and appropriate interventions to maximise a positive client experience and promote the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the patient and baby.

You will participate in the collection and recording of written and electronic data, in line with Trust guidelines and policies.

You will work in partnership with clients and professionals both internally and external to the Trust to provide an effective network of care for the clients in their care.

You will act as an advocate for the department, in promoting respectful and flexible team working across areas.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to…