Screening Maternity Support Worker/administrator - Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom - Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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To work within the maternity care team providing support, high quality and safe care to women and their families in the hospital setting.

The post-holder will be required to undertake a defined range of duties, delegated by, and reported back to, a registered member of the multi-professional team.


Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Band 2 Maternity assistant or administrator or Band 3 Maternity Support Worker to gain experience in supporting the Screening Team.

Band 2s are welcome to apply. Training will be given to the successful Band 2 administrator or Maternity assistant to progress to a Band 3.

Screening Maternity Support Worker/Administrator

Provide administrative support to the screening midwives.

To manage own time effectively, ensuring all women within the caseload are cared for under the direction of the screening midwife.

The role will involve assisting the Screening Team with the Down's screening pathway and supporting with administration duties.

To maintain high standards of cleanliness and hygiene within all clinical areas i.e. the antenatal clinic rooms and the scan rooms used by the fetal consultants.
To ensure that there is a good stock supply i.e all equipment used for invasive testing, all relevant literature. To assist the screening team in the management of the fetal medicine clinic, ensuring efficiency and effectivity. To assist the screening midwives in the care of women throughout the antenatal period to ensure that planned programmes of care are provided

You will be expected to work efficiently and flexibly as part of a team with good organisational skills. You will need the ability to deal with competing priorities without direct supervision.


Kingston Hospital employs 3,300+ staff who proudly and efficiently support over 350,000 people locally through a full range of diagnostic and treatment services and we have a national reputation for innovative developments in healthcare, particularly in 'patient-focused' care, day surgery and maternity services.

Trust Culture and Values

The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred which puts safety first and where all staff take responsibility, are valued and value each other.

To support this our five values are that we are all:

  • Caring
  • we design and deliver care around each individual patient's needs and wants Safe
  • we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first) Responsible
  • all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation
Value each other - we all value each other's contribution
Inspiring - we always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients
Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by 'Living Our Values Everyday'

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information and also the person specification for this role.
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