Bereavement Lead Midwife

Job overview

The Bereavement Midwife will be a practising midwife who will lead and work as a member of the multidisciplinary team within the maternity service. They will facilitate and provide individualised care to bereaved women and their families, provide clinical leadership and will play an integral part in service development. They will be pivotal in developing and delivering an education programme around baby loss and bereavement to all health care professionals. The bereavement midwife will assist in the development of guidelines and pathways in relation to stillbirths, late miscarriage, medical termination and neonatal deaths. Provision of reports as per local and national guidance specifies.

Main duties of the job

The Bereavement Midwife will have continuing responsibility for the staff training in bereavement and support including induction training/package for new staff, organising and delivering multidisciplinary training, compiling and maintaining resources. The bereavement Midwife will develop future conferences and work on creating a centre of excellence for other health care professional to access. The Bereavement Midwife will keep abreast of current chances to service provision.
Communication and Relationship Skills:
Overseeing and monitoring the quality, timeliness and development of midwifery and nursing care in accordance with relevant professional standards.
Ensuring that statistics are collated and reviewed and shared amongst a wider audience in order to ensure that excellent provision is made for bereaved families.
Ensuring that staff practice in accordance with statutory and corporate policies, including those specific to infection prevention and control.
The Bereavement Midwife will be work with parents, their families and staff to provide assistance, advice and support and to address problems and concerns, as required.
Analytical and Judgement Skills:
Uses information obtained from patients and service users and charitable organisations to make changes to the patient environment and care where appropriate or necessary.

Working for our organisation

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.

“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered midwife
• Degree level in related healthcare discipline or substantial experiential equivalence
• Evidence of learning beyond registration evidenced by relevant professional portfolio

Desirable criteria

• Masters qualification in relevant discipline
• Leadership/Management qualification Teaching qualification
• SANDS training

Occupational Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of caring for bereaved families within any setting of the maternity or neonatal setting
• Evidence of Multi-disciplinary/agency working
• Working within a care environment
• Worked as band 6 midwife in the UK

Desirable criteria

• Counselling qualification

Employer certification / accreditation badges