Maternity Care Assistant
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 involves assisting registered midwives in providing high-quality, person-centred care within the Day Assessment Unit. Key duties include supporting midwives with Monofer infusions, chaperoning cervical balloon catheter inductions, and performing maternal observations and venepuncture under supervision. The post holder will also help maintain a clean and safe ward environment and contribute to a caring atmosphere.
Essential criteria
- Experience with working with people, ideally in a customer service role.
- Experience with providing person centred care
Desirable criteria
- Experience in a healthcare setting
- Skills, ability and Knowledge
- Understanding of confidentiality and privacy
- Demonstrates care, compassion and empathy to patients and colleagues
- Maintain professional behaviour
- Understand patients need to be treated with dignity and respect
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Flexible and adaptable attitude to work in a hospital setting
- Basic understand of Health and Safety, policies and procedures
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Appreciation of equality, diversity and inclusion
- Behaviours and Values
- Flexible in shift and working patterns to meet the needs of the service
- Work effectively within the team
- Act with honesty and integrity
- Display BHT values
- Experience with working with people, ideally in a customer service role.
- Experience with providing person centred care
- Experience in a healthcare setting
- Skills, ability and Knowledge
- Understanding of confidentiality and privacy
- Demonstrates care, compassion and empathy to patients and colleagues
- Maintain professional behaviour
- Understand patients need to be treated with dignity and respect
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Flexible and adaptable attitude to work in a hospital setting
- Basic understand of Health and Safety, policies and procedures
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Appreciation of equality, diversity and inclusion
- Behaviours and Values
- Flexible in shift and working patterns to meet the needs of the service
- Work effectively within the team
- Act with honesty and integrity
- Display BHT values
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 Care Assistant
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
The post holder may be required to work anywhere within the Trust. To assist the registered midwife in the delivery of high quality and person - centred care.
o To support the midwives in the Day Assessment Unit with Monofer infusions, chaperone for the cervical balloon catheter inductions
- To carry out maternal observations and undertake a range of activities under direct or indirect supervision by a registered midwife, having been assessed as competent in the activities required, to include venepuncture,
- To maintain high clinical standards
oTo help maintain a clean and safe ward environment.
oTo contributes towards the department and organisation in the provision of a safe and caring environment.
oThe post holder may be required to work anywhere within the Trust.
Main duties of the job
Refer to job description and person specification
To provide support to the midwives in the Day Assessment Unit delivering clinical care to high risk pregnant women
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