Specialist Lead Bereavement Midwife
The closing date is 26 May 2026.
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. You will be a confident leader, guide multidisciplinary teams, drive service improvement, and contribute to education, governance, and national standards in bereavement care.
Main Duties of the Job
Lead and coordinate the Rosie Bereavement Team, ensuring high‑quality, compassionate care and support families undergoing pregnancy or baby loss, including post‑mortem consent, care planning and funeral arrangements.
Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and external agencies to assure seamless care. Maintain clinical credibility through active practice and support staff with 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, providing clear referral pathways, policies and procedures.
Coordinate and manage the Rainbow Clinic service, triage referrals, manage caseloads, deliver antenatal care, act as patient advocate and ensure effective multidisciplinary communication for holistic care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Registered Midwife with Diploma/Degree in Midwifery
- Up‑to‑date professional portfolio demonstrating ongoing professional development with bereavement specialist training
Experience
- Working knowledge of midwifery in all service areas
- Management responsibility experience
- Involvement in clinical audit and research
- Experience within the NHS
Knowledge
- Awareness of current research and its impact on evidence‑based care
- Knowledge of national reports relating to bereavement care and their implications
- Involvement in writing policies and guidelines
- MAPS training
Skills
- Full range of midwifery clinical skills across all areas
- Developed interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication across teams
- Teaching skills
Additional Requirements
- Ability to work within a multi‑disciplinary team
- Willingness to rotate to all areas on day and night shifts
- Support and develop midwifery‑led care
- Ability to travel between the Trust and community services
- Commitment to Trust values of safe, kind, excellent
- Proficiency in acting up for line manager/team leader
- Confident and motivated
- Supportive within a team framework
Benefits to You
Development opportunities and a wide range of staff benefits, including on‑site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. On‑campus, subsidised transport such as free Stagecoach bus travel to and from the hospital sites, and free bus journeys between specific sites and the train station. Parking costs subsidised for eligible staff. 24/7 hot food on campus at a reduced cost. Purpose‑created colleague‑only café and break spaces.
Work‑life balance support, flexible arrangements including part‑time, job share, term‑time and flexible start/finish times. The role may accommodate alternative work hours.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
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