Public Health Maternity Support Worker - Hereford, United Kingdom - Wye Valley NHS Trust

Wye Valley NHS Trust
Wye Valley NHS Trust
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Hereford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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1. The Public Health Maternity Support worker, working within Herefordshire maternity services will provide individualised public health support to women and will specifically deliver smoking cessation support to women and their families in a flexible and innovative way

  • The maternity support worker will receive referrals from team members for smoking cessation support and advice and will work proactively with all women and their household members who are smoking in pregnancy. The maternity support worker will provide a variety of evidence based stop smoking interventions including face to face, behavioural support and pharmacotherapy, group sessions, digital and self-help support, use of e-cigarettes and telephone and texting support. The maternity support worker will work closely with others such as the Healthy Lifestyle service, as part of the wider pathway to support smoking cessation and smoke free households. This will include undertaking
  • CO testing, the risk perception intervention, recording, collating and monitoring smoking and quit rates and client progress.


The maternity support worker will work proactively with pregnant women in women's homes and antenatal clinics across the county to provide a range of public health information, advice, support and brief interventions around smoking, diet, physical activity, weight management, alcohol and breastfeeding.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities.

  • Undertake relevant training in order to qualify as a smoking cessation advisor and maintain the skills and knowledge as necessary through participation in continuous development.
  • Undertake relevant training and continuous professional development to provide public health brief interventions (MECC) and behavioural interventions (MI)
  • Identify and approach women regarding public health brief interventions, advice, conversations and behavioural interventions in a variety of different settings. These may be in a clinical area or home.
  • Receive referrals for smoking cessation from midwives within the team following booking and other antenatal visits
  • Ensure the Optout referral and wider smoking pathway of all pregnant women who smoke becomes standard practice across the Trust.
  • Provide first contact within clinic or home environment.
  • Provide regular contact with clients: this can be provided by face to face meeting, group sessions, text, phone call, virtual platforms, closed group sessions and E mail.
  • Use carbon monoxide meter to track progress.
  • Complete spreadsheet and statistical information to track progress.
  • Access and enter required data and provide any statistical information required by the trust
  • Assess treatment needs, regarding smoking cessation.
  • Provide brief intervention advice and behavioural support following training.
  • Give advice about nicotine replacement therapy, and once undertaken approved training administer NRT


Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.


Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.


We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.


More than 3,000 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.


We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.


Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman:
"The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time all the time.

See job description attached for full job description and personal specification. For an informal chat please contact Public Health Midwife for further details
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