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name, description
| name | description |
|---|---|
| maternity-support-worker | Occupational skill for the role 'maternity support worker' (also: maternity care assistant, assistant to midwife, midwifery assistant, midwifery care assistant, midwife care assistant, midwife assistant). Use when the user asks for typical maternity support worker work such as: Assist maternal patients to find physical positions that will facilitate childbirth.; Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.; Provide comfort and relaxation measures for mothers in labor through interventions such as massage, breathing techniques, hydrotherapy, or music. |
Maternity Support Worker
Maternity support workers work together in a team with midwives and health professionals within the occupational fields of nursing and midwifery. They assist midwives and women in childbirth by providing the necessary support, care and advice during pregnancy, labour and the postpartum period, assist births and assist in providing care for the new-born.
Core workflow
- Assist maternal patients to find physical positions that will facilitate childbirth.
- Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.
- Provide comfort and relaxation measures for mothers in labor through interventions such as massage, breathing techniques, hydrotherapy, or music.
- Set up or monitor the administration of oxygen or medications.
- Assess birthing environments to ensure cleanliness, safety, and the availability of appropriate supplies.
- Assess the status of post-date pregnancies to determine treatments and interventions.
- Collect specimens for use in laboratory tests.
- Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health.
How to use this skill
- Read references/profile.md for the occupation profile and scope.
- Consult references/tasks.md for the full task and activity inventory.
- Check references/skills.md for essential vs. optional competences.
- Check references/tools.md for the software commonly used in this role.
- See references/ai-skills.md — matched external AI agent skills (per-source attribution).
Key competences (essential)
- advise on family planning
- advise on pregnancies at risk
- advise on pregnancy
- assist on pregnancy abnormality
- care for the new-born infant
- childbirth
- communicate with nursing staff
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- empathise with the healthcare user
- empathise with the woman's family during and after pregnancy
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- examine the new-born infant
Hot technologies
- Extensible markup language XML
- Epic Systems
- MEDITECH software
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/30194ac4-93b8-4450-8a15-f6f7cbe351cb), ONET 30.3 (29-9099.01). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*