Specialist Bereavement Midwife

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen within Homerton Healthcare Foundation Trust for a Specialist Bereavement Midwife, as we are expanding the service. This is a part-time role at 0.45 WTE (16.87 hours per week). The schedule must be flexible to align with the team’s needs and will include weekend cover to support our 7-day bereavement care service, with a preference for supporting Mondays, both on-site and on-call over the weekends.

We are seeking an innovative, proactive, and compassionate Midwife who can demonstrate a high level of specialised bereavement care using evidence-based practice. The successful candidate will have exceptional organisational skills to monitor, review, and provide assurance that the service meets national recommendations.

We welcome applications from individuals from global majority backgrounds.

Main duties of the job

As a Specialist Bereavement lead midwife, the role includes:

• Being an information and support source for staff, bereaved parents and their families.
• Being familiar with all the policies and protocols relevant to caring for parents.
• Developing knowledge insight and skills to provide high quality sensitive care to parents who experience the death of a baby, before, during or short after birth.
• Act as a clinical specialist providing verbal and written information to bereaved families on funeral options.
• Enabling the bereaved access their entitlements by liaising with outside agencies.
• Being a resource for medical, nursing and midwifery staff on physical, psychological and administrative aspects of bereavement care.
• Being aware of research and best practice in bereavement, and identifying, through audit, and other means, areas for improvement in bereavement care within the Homerton Foundation Trust.
• Maintain and develop own professional and clinical knowledge /skills and personal development, including participating in in-service training education, standards and professional guidelines and support implementation of the National Bereavement Care Pathway.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s on this page.

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.