The aim of this guide is to assist all those involved in developing the maternity workforce with advice on the tasks that maternity support workers can and cannot legitimately undertake. It is important that the guide should be read in conjunction with the documents listed in the Reference section, particularly those addressing issues of responsibility, accountability and delegation.

• All Wales MSW Curriculum.
  

• NHS Education for Scotland’s Maternity Healthcare Support Worker programme.
  

• Northern Ireland level 3 MSW Diploma.
  

• London South Bank MSW Foundation Degree.

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Through discussion and consensus building the workshop agreed a set of tasks they felt collectively MSWs could perform. These were then reviewed by the RCM’s internal Maternity Support Worker group.

The RCM recognises that support workers perform tasks holistically, working as part of a team and require a wide range of competences including – communication skills, problem solving, recognising and responding appropriately to emergency situations and demonstrating awareness of equality and diversity issues. The workshop and this guide, however, focus on tasks alone. This is in order to assist the setting of clear and unambiguous role parameters........

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