Maternity Care Assistant | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Southend University Hospital NHS Trust
Salary:	£25,760 Per annum (pro rata for part time)
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Basildon, SS16 5NL
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	1 Oct 2026
Closing date:	31 Oct 2026

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Summary

We are seeking a Maternity Care Assistant - band 3 to join our team at our Basildon site to work across all areas of Maternity.

The appointed candidate will be responsible for supporting Midwives with providing care to women and babies and completing observations to monitor the well being of both.

You will support all areas within maternity and will require a flexible motivated person to support the service.

No VISA sponsorship available for this role

Previous candidates need not apply

• Level 3 Maternity Care Assistant provides direct delivery of clinical care to all women and babies accessing maternity services and may be based within specialist and integrated teams such as in theatre, fetal medicine units and community hubs.

• May serve as a point of contact/support for women and their families and provide clinical, physical, psychological and emotional care and support

• Provide appropriate information and where necessary, signpost to wider support organisations. The MSW reports to registered practitioners where planned delegated care has been provided.

• Uses additional skills, to those of band 2 Maternity Care Assistant, within focused aspects of service delivery to enhance the service offered to women and their families; working alongside, but under the guidance of, practitioners at all levels from across the multidisciplinary team including, but not limited to midwives; obstetricians; ultra-sonographers; physiotherapists and advanced nurse practitioners.

The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together key health, care, community, and voluntary sector organisations from across our area. Our aim is to work together in partnership to join up health and care services, improving our populations health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. One such example of this collaborative work is the launch of our HCA Academy, an ICS initiative between Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) and Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT) to support the incoming Health Care assistant (HCA) workforce. The academy models a ‘one workforce’ cross system approach to the onboarding, induction, education, and experience of Healthcare Assistants.

Successful candidates to this role will be able to access the additional support provided by the HCA Academy following their induction with MSEFT. This includes development opportunities, pastoral support, staff rewards and access to HCA exclusive resources such as HCA App.

Are you looking for an exciting Maternity Care Assistant role using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you.

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

We look forward to your application.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications.

This advert closes on Friday 2 Oct 2026

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