Band 6 Community / Rotational Midwife

Job summary

Are you an experienced community midwife or a midwife looking for a new career direction?

There are exciting opportunities (Full/Part time with opportunity for flexible working patterns) to join our highly motivated, and dynamic midwifery teams in the community at Bolton Foundation Trust.

At Bolton our women and their families are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure that they receive the highest quality of Care and are guided by our Trust Values. We are committed to looking at ways to develop and improve our maternity services. We value our staff and provide an environment for nurturing and development.

We are looking to recruit motivated, dynamic Midwives who have excellent communication skills & clinical knowledge to deliver personalised care to women in our local community settings, improving women centred care and promoting continuity. We expect you to perform with care and compassion, providing clinically excellent care, supporting women and their families in our local communities.

Join us in working towards an outstanding Maternity service.

Main duties of the job

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

Recent improvements have led to a stronger focus on providing safe and compassionate care and this has increased opportunities to learn, develop and expand your career.

What we are currently doing:

• Offering 4 choices of birth environment
• Developing a continuity of carer model
• Developing a case loading team
• Providing high quality care to high-risk women
• Working towards offering a transitional care service
• Developing our perinatal mental health service to offer a more holistic approach to women with mental health needs.

You will have:-

• Confidence in your midwifery skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• A zest for holistic care
• Passion for midwifery led services and promoting birth place options.
• Be prepared to support women through their pregnancy journey and adaptation to parenthood.
• Competed to our Trust values.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

Minerva Road

Bolton

BL4 0JR

Employer's website

http://www.boltonft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

Minerva Road

Bolton

BL4 0JR

Employer's website

http://www.boltonft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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