Main area Elective Caesarean Section Midwife Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 30 hours per week (Monday to Friday to include early and lates) Job ref 241-367FD-25
Employer Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Bolton Hospital Town Bolton Salary £38,682 - £46,580 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 10/09/2025 23:59
Band 6 Elective Caesarean Section Midwife
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
We are looking for a Band 6 midwife to work in the Maternity theatre team, to look after women and birthing partners on the Elective Caesarean section pathway. The main responsibilities for this role will be to provide women and babies with high quality, safe midwifery care during operative childbirth. The care will be evidence based and holistic in meeting women’s needs in the theatre setting.
Our maternity service provides excellent care for more than 6,000 women a year.
We offer great facilities, pride ourselves on the individual care and attention each woman and family receives.
With a dedicated medical team of 15 consultants, our women who require specialised or complex care, will receive a Multidisciplinary approach, ensuring their expectations of the birthing experience are positive and maintained where possible.
Royal Bolton Foundation Trust remain committed to implementing the recommendations of The National Maternity Review- Better Births: Improving outcomes of maternity services inEngland. Continuity of Carer remains an important evidence-based way of improving outcomes and experience for women and birthing people using our services. At Royal Bolton, we believe this is equally important for our women who undergo elective caesarean sections therefore, believe that dedicated maternity team will support with this implementation.
Main duties of the job
As a senior midwife, you will act as an advocate for the woman and birthing partner. You will be fully supportive of theatre etiquette and will be required to communicate effectively within an multidisciplinary team. You will be expected to manage a workload and support with the operational aspects of patient flow to ensure that theatre lists are kept to time. You will have excellent documentation skills and be able to maintain these to NMC standards. You will be required to escalate any safety concerns to the band 7 Coordinating Midwife or Matron.
Main duties will be to admit, prepare and care for birthing partners who are being looked after on the elective caesarean section pathway. This will involve the provision of offering a pre operative meeting to discuss the pathway of their caesarean section, going into theatre with them and providing their care whilst in theatre, and providing care for them in recovery. The role will require you to work in a fast-paced theatre environment, caring for multiple families daily.
Working for our organisation
Working for Our Trust
We are one of the North West’s busiest acute NHS Foundation Trusts, serving a diverse population across Bolton and parts of Greater Manchester and are classed as amongst the best in the region for several of our services.
Our Trust values are vision, openness, integrity, compassion and excellence, and they underpin the way we work together as staff for our patients.
Our aim is for Bolton NHS Foundation Trust to be a great place to work, and we believe that by living our values every day we have built a culture where we treat patients as we would treat our family and friends.
We employ around 6,000 dedicated staff across more than 100 different services and specialties, based mainly at Royal Bolton Hospital but also at many community healthcare sites.
Whatever role you work in, we are committed to offering excellent learning and development opportunities and to supporting you in your career.
Trust Values
Our values demonstrate the beliefs that underpin the way we work together and with patients.
Our values drive what we do to help us deliver our ambitions, in a way that puts patient safety and care first.
* Vision
* Integrity
* Compassion
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities for the role.
Person specification
general
* Registered Midwife
* Human Factors training
Qualifications
* Registered Midwife
* Human Factors training
Skills
* ability to work under pressure
* situational awareness
The vision of this Trust is to be recognised by the people of Bolton and beyond as an excellent provider of health and care services and a great place to work. We are striving to attract, recruit and retain high calibre skilled staff which reflect our communities. We are an inclusive employer who trains and develops our staff in a positive learning environment.
We thrive on cultivating cultural architecture, if you have the right skills, attitudes and behaviours, in line with our Trust values, we welcome and appreciate the diversity you bring to our organisation.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits please click on the link below to see what current benefits we have.
From time to time we may need to close a vacancy early when in receipt of a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this post and wish to be considered, we strongly advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
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