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Job overview

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 in England. 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 Elective Caesarean section midwife will be to admit, prepare and care for families who are booked on this pathway.  This will involve the provision of offering a pre-operative meet, 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.

Main duties of the job

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
• Openness
• Integrity
• Compassion
• Excellence