Job summary
Are you a compassionate and dedicated individual with a passion for supporting women and families through pregnancy, birth and the post natal period.

This is a fantastic opportunity for current Maternity Care Assistants (Band 2) to progress and enhance their skills, knowledge and role.

As a Maternity support worker, you will work alongside midwives and other healthcare professionals to deliver high quality, safe and family centred care in a variety of settings throughout our Maternity service. Your role will involve providing practical, and emotional support to women and their families during the antenatal, intrapartum and post natal period. This role may require you to rotate to different areas throughout our Maternity service.

Main duties of the job

• The Maternity Support Worker will utilise skills to offer women, their new-born infants and their families a range of maternity care delivered under indirect and direct supervision of practitioners across the maternity multidisciplinary team.
• Act as a role model providing coaching and guidance to Trainee and Band 2 MSW as required.
• Helping to ensure the efficient and effective running of the ward/department at all times.
• Manage their own workload and activities whilst ensuring that their practice is guided by standard operating procedures and established protocols. Their practice will reflect the principles of woman and family centred care.
• Prioritise own workload and be responsible for planned care and tasks delegated from a registered practitioner.
• Provide appropriate information and signpost to other health sector organisations.

About us
The right care, by the right person, in the right place. Bolton NHS Foundation Trust provide services across the North West side of the Greater Manchester area ranging from hospital services in Bolton to community services across Bolton, Salford, Ashton, Leigh and Wigan. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. We have recently been given a CQC rating of Good.

Over 5,700 people work for the Trust and many of them have been here a long time. People find they don't need to go elsewhere to find a fulfilling career in healthcare.

The Family Division aims to deliver the highest standards of care for maternity, sexual health, gynaecology and a range of acute and community children's services. The Division is a Centre of Excellence for Women's and Children's services and has a credible and enviable reputation. We deliver over 6,000 babies and carry around 1500 gynaecological procedures each year, making us a specialist provider of health services for women, babies and their families in the North West Sector of Manchester and beyond.

With births of around 6000 per year, Bolton is the 'Supercentre' for the northwest, providing high quality compassionate care to the women of Bolton, Bury, Salford and beyond.

Details
Date posted: 20 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 3
Salary: £25,760 to £27,476 a year, per annum pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Reference number: 241-673FD-26
Closing date: 27 October 2026

Person Specification
Education

• Essential: GCSE English & Maths or equivalent; NVQ Health & Social Care; Care Certificate
• Desirable: Basic IT Skills; Knowledge of Trust IT systems

Experience

• Essential: Significant experience of working in a healthcare setting; Experience of working within a Maternity Service
• Desirable: Any experience of working within a Healthcare setting

Skills and Abilities

• Essential: Clinical skills, experience of Maternal & Infant Observations; Knowledgeable and experience of providing Infant Feeding support; Trained and uptakes venepuncture
• Desirable: Can communicate in different languages

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

Contact
Recruitment & Retention Midwife: Katie Rorke, katie.rorke@boltonft.nhs.uk, 01204390390