Community Maternity Support Worker
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 24/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an enthusiastic and motivated Community Maternity Support Worker to join the Midwifery Team. You will provide direct care to women and their babies in both hospital and community settings, working under the supervision of a midwife. Duties include clinical tasks like phlebotomy and newborn blood spot screening, as well as providing emotional and physical support to new mothers and families. A driving license and access to a car are essential for this community-based role.
Essential criteria
- NVQ 2 or equivalent experience in care
- Evidence of recent learning
Desirable criteria
- NVQ3 or working towards
- Skills Knowledge & Aptitudes
- Ability to communicate verbally and in writing
- Ability to develop good working relationships with wide range of people and organisations in the statutory and voluntary sectors including community groups and user
- Ability to work as a team player
- Ability to work with staff from a diverse range of backgrounds
- Ability to work openly with parents and to be committed to community participation
- Confidence to work flexibly and to challenge established ways of working and organisational structures
- Knowledge of awareness if issues relating to the needs of different groups within the community
- Word processing and computer skills
- At least two years experience of working with women and families
- Participating in multi-agency training
- Experience of working with women from the a inner city and diverse communities
- Experience of participating parenting programmes on both and individual and group basis
- Other
- Flexible approach to work arrangements
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Commitment to professional development
- Fit, willing & able to get around the area
- Positive attitude towards equal opportunities and towards working in a multi-cultural environment
- Qualifications & Learning
- NVQ 2 or equivalent experience in care
- Evidence of recent learning
- NVQ3 or working towards
- Skills Knowledge & Aptitudes
- Ability to communicate verbally and in writing
- Ability to develop good working relationships with wide range of people and organisations in the statutory and voluntary sectors including community groups and user
- Ability to work as a team player
- Ability to work with staff from a diverse range of backgrounds
- Ability to work openly with parents and to be committed to community participation
- Confidence to work flexibly and to challenge established ways of working and organisational structures
- Knowledge of awareness if issues relating to the needs of different groups within the community
- Word processing and computer skills
- At least two years experience of working with women and families
- Participating in multi-agency training
- Experience of working with women from the a inner city and diverse communities
- Experience of participating parenting programmes on both and individual and group basis
- Other
- Flexible approach to work arrangements
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Commitment to professional development
- Fit, willing & able to get around the area
- Positive attitude towards equal opportunities and towards working in a multi-cultural environment
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.
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Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust
Community Maternity Support Worker
The closing date is 24 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated Community Maternity Support Workers to join our existing team. You will be part of the Community and Continuity of Care teams . The successful applicants will need to be flexible and adaptable, working weekends and bank holidays. The shifts will be predominantly short shifts.
The Community Maternity Support Worker (MSW) will work as a member of the Midwifery Team in the delivery of safe care to women and their babies, within the Hospital & Community setting.
You must have a driving license and access to a car for this roll
Main duties of the job
The MSW will carry out a defined range of duties delegated by the registered member of the multidisciplinary team. They will work with minimal supervision and use their initiative, on a frequent basis to assist in the planning, delivery, evaluation and implementation of agreed programmes of care which will involve direct care to women, their partners and babies.
The post holder will ensure that women and babies receive safe, individualised and effective standards of care by following care plans as directed by the registered Midwife and will report any concerns or changes in the condition of the woman and baby appropriately.
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