Specialist Lead Bereavement Midwife

Job overview

This is a unique and rewarding opportunity for an experienced and compassionate midwife to lead and shape a specialist bereavement service, supporting families through pregnancy and baby loss with kindness, expertise, and respect.

As a key clinical leader, you will coordinate the Rosie Bereavement Team and Rainbow Clinic, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, and truly patient-centred care at some of the most difficult times in a family’s life. We are looking for someone with strong clinical credibility, excellent communication skills and the emotional intelligence to support both families and staff. You will be a confident leader, able to guide multidisciplinary teams, drive service improvement, and contribute to education, governance and national standards in bereavement care.

In return, you will join a supportive and forward-thinking team committed to compassionate care, continuous learning, and innovation. This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful difference, influence service development, and be part of a team that truly values kindness, safety and excellence.

Main duties of the job

Bereavement Support & Leadership

Lead and coordinate the Rosie Bereavement Team, ensuring delivery of high-quality, compassionate, patient-centred care in line with Trust values. Provide expert support to families experiencing pregnancy or baby loss, including post-mortem consent, care planning, and coordination of funeral arrangements. Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and external agencies to ensure seamless care. Maintain clinical credibility through regular practice and support staff through guidance, training, and mentorship.

Oversee bereavement governance processes, including mortality reviews (PMRT), audits, and compliance with national standards. Drive service development, quality improvement, and implementation of best practice, while maintaining clear referral pathways, policies, and standard operating procedures.

Rosie Rainbow Clinic

Coordinate and manage the Rainbow Clinic service, including triaging referrals, managing caseloads, and delivering antenatal care. Act as a patient advocate, providing ongoing clinical and emotional support, and ensure effective multidisciplinary communication for holistic care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have: -    applied for a Graduate visa -    or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment

For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 26 May 2026

Interviews are due to be held on 2 June 2026

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.