Occupation Atlasmaternity support worker
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/30194ac4-93b8-4450-8a15-f6f7cbe351cb
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.
Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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Occupational interest profile
SRISocial · Realistic · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social6.04
- R Realistic3.98
- I Investigative3.54
- C Conventional3.26
- E Enterprising2.70
- A Artistic1.91
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Midwives (29-9099.01): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (32)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- 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
- follow clinical guidelines
- health education
- human anatomy
- hygiene in a health care setting
- identify abnormalities
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- monitor basic patients signs
- pregnancy
- provide basic support to patients
- provide postnatal care
- provide pre-natal care
- support nurses
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- work under supervision in care
- work with nursing staff
Optional (18)
- anaesthetics
- analgesics
- apply context specific clinical competences
- assess the course of breast-feeding period
- distribute meals to patients
- embryology
- have computer literacy
- microbiology-bacteriology
- monitor pregnancy
- neonatology
- postpartum period
- preparation for child delivery
- preparation for parenthood
- promote health and safety
- provide health education
- sex education
- use different communication channels
- use obstetric sonography
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 32 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
midwife
23 shared · 50 more of its ownassist on pregnancy abnormality, care for the new-born infant, empathise with the woman's family during and after pregnancy, examine the new-born infant
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nurse assistant
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