Maternity Health Advisor

The post is a fixed term 1 year 

Maternity Health Advisor

Location:  Newcastle (East)
Hours: 28 per week
Contract: Fixed-term, 1 year from start date 
Organisation: Barnardo's

About the role

Join a new team — the Pregnancy Anticipatory Care Service. The team will provide support for families across the city. It will be part of the Community Family Offer.

As a Maternity Health Advisor, you will empower pregnant people and families. You'll help them improve their health and wellbeing. You'll support and connect people with groups and services.

We're especially looking for

People who:

• Identify as Black, Asian, or part of a minority ethnic group
• Have experience of UK maternity care, especially as migrants or non-native English speakers
• Understand challenges faced by families in deprived communities

Your insight can help improve maternity care.

What you'll be doing

✔ Listening and building trust
✔ Offering friendly advice on wellbeing
✔ Making home visits 
✔ Helping with things like housing, finances, loneliness or caring responsibilities
✔ Co-creating support plans
✔ Connecting people to groups and services
✔ Promoting belonging and confidence
✔ Taking referrals from maternity services
✔ Working in multi-disciplinary teams
✔ Referring people to health professionals when needed
✔ Understanding safeguarding 
✔ Following up to ensure continued support

Why this matters

The need for culturally sensitive and personalised maternity care is nationally recognised by MBBRACE-UK. It is backed up by local patient safety reviews.

"Anticipatory care helps people live well independently for longer by proactively supporting those at high risk of poor health outcomes." – NHS England, 2019

Ready to apply?

If this sounds like the right fit and your experience is what we're looking for, we'd love to hear from you

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.  We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people. 

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay. 

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours.  More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application. 

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.  

Our basis and values