Maternity Support Worker - Post-Operative
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for an enthusiastic and motivated maternity community support worker to join the community midwifery team at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. The primary responsibility is to support and assist registered midwives or nurses in delivering post-operative birth care, ensuring high standards of care for patients and their carers. Duties include assisting with fundamental nursing and midwifery care, performing limited clinical observations, and maintaining a clean and safe ward environment.
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people, ideally in a front-line customer service role.
- Experience of providing person centred care.
- Skills, Abilities & Knowlege
- An understanding of the importance of patient confidentially and privacy.
- Recognise how patients and colleagues need to be treated with dignity and respect and can demonstrate these behaviours in their daily work.
- Good verbal and written English communication skills.
- The ability to respond with kindness and humanity to patients.
- A flexible and adaptable approach with the aptitude to work in a busy hospital healthcare setting.
- Basic knowledge of health and safety with an awareness of the importance of following Trust policies and procedures.
- EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
- Level 2 or Level 3 (NVQ) in health and Social Care or equivalent relevant experience
- Willing to work towards Level 2 functional skills (Math & English)
- Care Certificate/working towards
- Experience of working with people, ideally in a front-line customer service role.
- Experience of providing person centred care.
- Skills, Abilities & Knowlege
- An understanding of the importance of patient confidentially and privacy.
- Recognise how patients and colleagues need to be treated with dignity and respect and can demonstrate these behaviours in their daily work.
- Good verbal and written English communication skills.
- The ability to respond with kindness and humanity to patients.
- A flexible and adaptable approach with the aptitude to work in a busy hospital healthcare setting.
- Basic knowledge of health and safety with an awareness of the importance of following Trust policies and procedures.
Desirable criteria
- Level 2 or Level 3 (NVQ) in health and Social Care or equivalent relevant experience
- Willing to work towards Level 2 functional skills (Math & English)
- Care Certificate/working towards
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 3d ago · Closes in 14d
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Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Maternity Support Worker - Post-Operative
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
We are delighted to offer the opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated maternity community support worker to join our community midwifery team.
This role is based at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
To support and assist the registered midwife or nurse in the delivery of care to patients within maternity, primarily post-operative birth care, ensuring the highest possible standards of care are received by patients and their carers.
Main duties of the job
- To assist the registered nurse or midwife in the delivery of high quality and person-centered post-operative care.
- To provide fundamental nursing and midwifery care, e.g., assistance with personal hygiene, eating and drinking, mobility needs, washing under direct or indirect supervision.
- To carry out limited clinical observations and undertake a range of activities under direct or indirect supervision by a registered nurse or midwife, having been assessed as deemed competent in the activities required.
- To maintain high clinical standards
- To help maintain a clean and safe ward environment.
- To contributes towards the department and organisation in the provision of a safe and caring environment.
- The post holder may be required to work anywhere within the Trust.
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