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The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust

About

The Queen Elizabeth Teaching Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust (The QEH) is a district general hospital employing over 4,000 staff and volunteers. We serve a population of approximately 375,000 and provide care for patients from West and North Norfolk, Breckland, Cambridgeshire, and South Lincolnshire. We are united in our commitment to delivering high-quality, safe and compassionate care.

In July 2025, The QEH achieved a significant milestone by successfully completing the rigorous quality assurance process to become a designated Teaching Hospital. This formal recognition reflects our longstanding commitment to education, research, and the development of future healthcare professionals. Teaching Hospital status enhances our ability to attract and retain top talent, deepen academic partnerships, and foster a culture of continuous improvement across all services.

Authorised as a Foundation Trust in 2011, The QEH has approximately 500 inpatient beds across 22 wards. In 2024/25, we cared for more than 94,000 people in our Emergency Department, performed 25,400 day case procedures, and delivered more than 1,700 babies. We also treated more than 31,900 elective and non-elective inpatients.

We are a research active organisation and play a key role in clinical innovation. Last year we recruited more than 1,800 participants to National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) portfolio studies.

Collaboration is a central element of our improvement journey. Over the past year, we have worked closely with Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals (NNUH) and James Paget University Hospitals (JPUH) to develop a group model for service delivery. In March 2025, the full case for establishing the Norfolk and Waveney University Hospitals Group was published. This new structure signals a transformative phase for The QEH, grounded in shared ambition, innovation and excellence.

Over the past three years, the Trust has undergone significant improvement. We are now rated ‘Good’ by the CQC in three domains – Caring, Well-Led and Effective – while our overall rating remains ‘Requires Improvement’. This progress provides a strong foundation as we strive toward becoming an ‘Outstanding’ Trust.

Our Maternity Services have also been rated ‘Good’ by the CQC. Inspectors recognised the considerable changes made, highlighting improvements in staff culture, communication, and leadership.

In May 2023, The QEH was named as part of the government’s New Hospital Programme (NHP). This recognition marked a historic milestone, validating the urgent need for modern facilities in King’s Lynn. In January 2025, the government confirmed the replacement of RAAC-constructed hospitals as a national priority. As we move forward, we remain committed to realising the New QEH – an investment that will deliver world-class healthcare for our communities long into the future.

As we serve patients on the borders of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, we are commissioned by clinical commissioning groups from these three counties to provide acute hospital services. Our lead commissioner is NHS West Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Group.

The QEH is a district general hospital which provides acute services for the following specialties:

Acute Medicine (including Same Day Emergency Care)
Anaesthetics
Audiology
Breast Surgery
Cardiology
Cardio-respiratory
Clinical Psychology
Colorectal
Critical Care
Dermatology
Diabetes and Endocrinology
Dietetics
Emergency Medicine
Ear, Nose and Throat
Gastroenterology
General Medicine (including Treatment and Investigation Unit)
Haematology and Anti-coagulation
Integrated Care of the Older Person (ICOP)
Mortuary
Nephrology
Neurology
Neurophysiology
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Oncology
Ophthalmology
Oral Surgery
Orthodontics
Paediatrics
Pain Services
Palliative Medicine
Pharmacy
Phlebotomy
Radiology (MRI, X-ray, CT, Ultrasound, Nuclear Medicine and Bone Density scanning)
Respiratory
Rheumatology
Stroke
Speech and Language
Therapies
Trauma and Orthopaedics
Upper GI
Urology
Vascular

Contact

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Gayton Road
Kings Lynn
Norfolk
PE304ET

[email protected]
01553 613932

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Ref: 426-765-25TAM-A Vacancy ID: 7359467

Rotational Maternity Care Assistant

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Location

Site: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Address: Gayton Road
Town: King's Lynn
Postcode: PE30 4ET
Major / Minor Region: Norfolk

Contract type & working pattern

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time
Part time
Flexible working

37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £24,465 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 2)

Specialty

Main area: Nursing

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information about this role.

Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the criteria specified in the person specification regardless of age, gender, disability, race ,ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. Only those applicants who demonstrate in the application form how they meet the criteria in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values (attached).

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We offer our staff a wide range of benefits and support including:

Flexible working opportunities
Free counselling service
NHS Pension scheme
Access to Wagestream - an app-based service that provides instant earned wage access*
Support and advice for staff affected by either Peri-Menopause or Menopause
Opportunity to join our Staff Networks which include: Armed Forces, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Culture Heritage), Disability and LGBTQ+ networks.

We are committed to being a menopause friendly employer.

Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.

Admin & Clerical staff may be required to act as Loggists for a major incident.

Everyone within the Trust has or will shortly need to have a minimum level of skill for computer literacy for their day-to day- work as we become more digitally mature. Therefore all staff should be computer literate.

Certificates of Sponsorship/Visa and Immigration
If you wish to apply for this vacancy and would require sponsorship to work in this role (including if you are already in a sponsored post and looking to change your employer), you can look at the government website https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/your-job and assess your circumstances against the criteria specified. This will determine your likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this post.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.