Maternity Support Worker | Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust; Bolton; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Maternity Support Worker to support women and families throughout antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care. The role involves rotating across the maternity service to provide practical and emotional support under supervision of midwives and the multidisciplinary team.

This position is designed for current Maternity Care Assistants (Band 2) looking to progress, offering a pathway within a busy, family‑centred service that delivers high-quality care in a

Responsibilities

• Provide maternity care to women, babies and families under supervision of the maternity multidisciplinary team.
• Act as a role model, coaching Trainee and Band 2 MSW as required.
• Help ensure the ward/department runs efficiently and effectively.
• Manage own workload, following SOPs and established protocols.
• Prioritise workload and tasks delegated from a registered practitioner.
• Provide information and signpost to other health sector organisations.

Job description

Maternity Support Worker | Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

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.

• 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.

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 communitychildren’s services. The Division is a Centre of Excellence for Women’s and Children’s services and has a credible and enviable reputation. Wedeliver over 6,000 babies and carry around 1500 gynaecological procedures each year, making us a specialist provider of health services forwomen, 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.

For further information regarding the key responsibilities of this role please see the attached job description and personal specification.

If you have any further questions regarding this role please do not hesitate to contact us via the information below.

This advert closes on Tuesday 27 Oct 2026