Job Description
Job description
Job Overview
The brand new Crowthorne Hub is excited to announce an opportunity to join the community team as a Maternity Care Assistant.
The successful applicant will join the Crowthorne Hub as a Band 3 Maternity Care Assistant on a part-time basis, 30 hours per week (Monday - Friday). They might occasionally support other community teams during times of annual leave or other absence.
Main duties of the job
This is an internal vacancy looking for an experienced Band 3 Maternity Care Assistant to work within a busy community team and to assist midwives with the support of women throughout their antenatal and postnatal journey.
The role will involve seeing women at the hub or in their homes with their new baby, taking newborn bloodspot samples and assisting with baby care and infant feeding. You will be trained to be an expert in breastfeeding and will be a front-line ambassador for public health issues. Some administrative duties will be expected in order to support the Midwives and full training will be given.
You should be level headed, able to stay calm in a busy environment and work on your own initiative with minimum supervision, have good customer care skills and plenty of energy, patience and motivation and you will need to demonstrate care and compassion to women.
Previous experience is essential and you must have undertaken the Maternity Care Assistants care certificate course. You must have attended the maternity specific training days and passed the BFI two day training. You must be either working with evidence towards The MCA Passport or have already achieved this. Blood spot competency completion would be desirable.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around +00,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description for a full list of roles and responsibilities.
As a Band 3 Maternity Care Assistant you will be an integral member of the multidisciplinary team in the community, where you will provide support to midwifery staff in the direct provision and support of patient care.
You will also provide a range of non-midwifery duties ensuring an efficient service to the ward and community at all times.
Ability to drive is essential.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
• Current Band 2 Maternity care assistant
• MCA Care Certificate
Training
Essential criteria
• Maternity Specific training days
• Baby friendly training (passed assessments)
Desirable criteria
• Venepuncture
• MCA Passport of competencies
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the +00,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £4+m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
Apply online now
Job Overview
The brand new Crowthorne Hub is excited to announce an opportunity to join the community team as a Maternity Care Assistant.
The successful applicant will join the Crowthorne Hub as a Band 3 Maternity Care Assistant on a part-time basis, 30 hours per week (Monday - Friday). They might occasionally support other community teams during times of annual leave or other absence.
Main duties of the job
This is an internal vacancy looking for an experienced Band 3 Maternity Care Assistant to work within a busy community team and to assist midwives with the support of women throughout their antenatal and postnatal journey.
The role will involve seeing women at the hub or in their homes with their new baby, taking newborn bloodspot samples and assisting with baby care and infant feeding. You will be trained to be an expert in breastfeeding and will be a front-line ambassador for public health issues. Some administrative duties will be expected in order to support the Midwives and full training will be given.
You should be level headed, able to stay calm in a busy environment and work on your own initiative with minimum supervision, have good customer care skills and plenty of energy, patience and motivation and you will need to demonstrate care and compassion to women.
Previous experience is essential and you must have undertaken the Maternity Care Assistants care certificate course. You must have attended the maternity specific training days and passed the BFI two day training. You must be either working with evidence towards The MCA Passport or have already achieved this. Blood spot competency completion would be desirable.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around +00,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description for a full list of roles and responsibilities.
As a Band 3 Maternity Care Assistant you will be an integral member of the multidisciplinary team in the community, where you will provide support to midwifery staff in the direct provision and support of patient care.
You will also provide a range of non-midwifery duties ensuring an efficient service to the ward and community at all times.
Ability to drive is essential.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
• Current Band 2 Maternity care assistant
• MCA Care Certificate
Training
Essential criteria
• Maternity Specific training days
• Baby friendly training (passed assessments)
Desirable criteria
• Venepuncture
• MCA Passport of competencies
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the +00,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £4+m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
Apply online now
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Maternity Care Assistant position is now open for candidates interested in the Health Jobs sector. This role in Camberley offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Health Jobs is a plus.
