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Maternity Support Worker
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Home Office register entry: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Nottinghamshire
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Role description
Job summary
Are you passionate about providing high-quality care and making a positive difference to women, babies and their families? We are looking for compassionate and motivated individuals to join our Maternity Team at King's Mill Hospital as a Maternity Support Worker (MSW).
As a Maternity Support Worker, you will work closely with midwives and the wider multidisciplinary team to support the delivery of safe, personalised and woman-centred maternity care. This varied and rewarding role offers the opportunity to be involved in all aspects of the maternity journey, supporting women and their families during pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period.
Working under the direct or indirect supervision of a registered midwife, you will assist with clinical and personal care duties following completion of appropriate training and competency assessments. The registered midwife remains accountable for the care provided to mothers and their newborn babies, with the MSW playing a vital role in delivering compassionate support and enhancing the patient experience.
If you are looking for a rewarding role where you can make a real difference to women and families at one of the most important times in their lives, we would love to hear from you.
Join our maternity team at King's Mill Hospital and help us provide outstanding care for every woman, every baby, every family.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Details
Date posted
27 August 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£25,760 to £27,476 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
214-W&C-8237364
Job locations
King's Mill Hospital
Mansfield Road
Sutton in Ashfield
NG17 4JL
United Kingdom
Last verified against our ingestion on 28 August 2026; sponsor register dataset 2026-08-25.