Maternity Support Worker | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

There is an exciting opportunity for a Maternity Support Worker to join the Infant Feeding Team within the Northumbria midwifery service. The role will be predominately based at our Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, with the expectation to work at base sites. A flexible approach to the role is essential and the successful candidate must be prepared to work within other clinical areas within the Trusts’ Maternity Services, if required to support service provision.

The role is pivotal in facilitating health promotion for families to support with infant feeding, referring, and signposting to appropriate services. The post holder will have knowledge, skills and experience in infant feeding support and will work in close collaboration with the maternity, neonatal and health visiting services to ensure a seamless delivery of care across the infant feeding service, providing continuity of care to families.

Participate in audits, with particular focus on recruiting families to participate in feedback on service care provision, in line with UNICEF UK Baby Friendly.

Working alongside the Infant Feeding Coordinator and Tongue Tie Practitioners within specialist clinics, including triage and diary management.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

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Maternity support workers (MSWs) are an integral part of the maternity workforce and play an important role in supporting midwives and the wider maternity teams, mothers and their babies through pregnancy, labour and during the postnatal period. Providing a safe holistic approach to birth person centred care.

Are you enthusiastic and passionate about supporting mothers and babies, have excellent communication skills and are looking for a challenging role where you can help support and nurture new parents and babies then join our maternity team.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

The post holder is expected to demonstrate they have the Essential person specification in line with the Job Description and undertake a set of defined competencies. Support will be given to employees to further develop their skills and explore pathways for progression where appropriate.

The following list is indicative as tasks and responsibilities will vary depending on the maternity setting the MSW is working in.

• The MSW will:
• Care of the birth person
• Obstetric and Neonatal Emergencies
• Health promotion and Screening
• Infant feeding
• Care of The Newborn

This advert closes on Sunday 21 Sep 2025