Maternity Support Worker, Maternity Ward- Band 3

Main area Maternity Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (includes weekend rotation.) Job
-26-T0063

Employer Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Stroud Maternity Hospital Town Stroud Salary £24,937 - £26,598 (pa pro rata if part-time) Salary period Yearly Closing 12/02/2026 23:59

At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the county’s largest employer, we are proud to provide high-quality acute, elective, and specialist services to more than 650,000 people across our county. Our care is delivered across Gloucestershire Royal, Cheltenham General and Stroud Maternity Hospital.

With over 9,000 employees representing more than 95 nationalities, bringing together a mix of cultures and experiences to the care that we deliver. Whether you’re beginning your NHS journey or looking to take the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing heavily in innovation, research, and transformation, with more than 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our hospitals.

We take pride in working as one team, driven by a shared ambition to grow, develop, and continually improve. Every contribution is valued and by combining our collective strengths, we support not only our diverse communities but one another. You can expect a warm, supportive culture and colleagues who are passionate about teamwork, professional development and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring and leadership opportunities to help you progress in your career.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from a comprehensive package that includes flexible working opportunities, generous annual leave, the NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, local discounts, access to on-site nurseries, reduced public transport costs, reward and recognition schemes and a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives.

Be part of Gloucestershire Hospitals, explore your future with us today.

Maternity Support Worker, Maternity Ward
- Band 3 (22.5 hours a week)

A rare opportunity has arisen to join the Maternity Support Worker team (South Stroud hub) who works closely with the midwifery team and newborn screening to deliver clinical and therapeutic care to women and babies within set protocols and remit.

Please note - this vacancy may close before the deadline if we receive enough suitable applications.

The maternity support workers delivers a day 5 postnatal care to the women and babies, as well as other postnatal support within the midwifery team such as day 3/9 postnatal visits. These appointments take place in hospital/children clinics or as home visits. As part of the day 5 responsibilities, the MSW will carry out the newborn hearing screening and bloodspot for the babies, provide safe feeding advice and support, check baby's weight and jaundice assessment.

There are other clinical responsibilities, please see job description for all the details.

We work as a close team where communication is important to ensure all eligible babies are offered the newborn screening on baby's day 5.

There are 3 hubs, South, West & East to ensure all the babies across Gloucestershire are offered the newborn screening. This post is for the South hub which means at large, the post holder will be covering the surrounding area of Stroud and Cirencester. However, all the MSWs do cross cover across the county wherever staffing is required (sometimes at short notice).

It is important that babies are appropriately offered, seen and referred timely, so interventions and support can be in place during the baby's early stages of life.

The post-holder will under the management of the team, work as part of the multi-disciplinary team, providing care to patients as delegated by the registered practitioner.

The post-holder will assist with the…