Bereavement Midwife

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Bereavement Midwife to join our specialist Bereavement Team based at Birmingham Women's Hospital. The role supports women, their partners and families experiencing pregnancy and baby loss, from early pregnancy loss to stillbirth and neonatal death.

You will coordinate and deliver compassionate, family-centred bereavement care, lead education and training for staff, and manage a caseload within a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with a BSc or equivalent degree.
• Counselling qualification or bereavement support study days.
• Demonstrates experience in bereavement care and supporting families.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and deliver specialist bereavement care that is compassionate, family-centred, holistic and equitable.
• Manage a caseload of bereaved families and coordinate bereavement care.
• Lead and contribute to education, training and development of staff.

Skills

Compassionate approach

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Leadership potential

Education

Registered Midwife BSc or equivalent degree

Counseling qualification or bereavement study

Tools

EPR (Electronic Patient Record)

Job description

Go back Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Bereavement Midwife

The closing date is 28 September 2026

We areseekinga highly motivated, compassionate, and enthusiastic midwife to join our specialist Bereavement Team based at Birmingham Women's Hospital.

This rewarding roleprovidesan opportunity to support women, their partners, and families experiencing pregnancy and baby loss, from early pregnancy loss through to stillbirth, neonatal death, and intosubsequentpregnancies following loss. The post holder will coordinate and deliver specialist bereavement care that is compassionate, family-centred, holistic, andequitable, ensuring that the individual needs, wishes, and preferences of each family remain at the heart of their care.

Main duties of the job

Working as part of a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, the successful applicant will play a key role in supporting midwifery, nursing, medical, and allied health professional colleagues to deliver consistently high standardsof bereavement care across the Trust. The role also includes leading and contributing to the education, training, and development of staff to promote best practice and compassionate care.

The post holder will manage a caseload of bereaved families, and will coordinate their bereavement care, they will need to be highly motivated and able to organise their workload whilst meeting the day to requests made of the bereavement team.

This position offers excellent opportunities for professional development, with access to specialist education and training to further enhance clinicalexpertiseand leadership in bereavement care.

The post is based at Birmingham Women's Hospital and is worked over three days per week, including weekdays and weekends/bank holidays on a rotational rota.

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

• Registered Midwife BSc or equivalent degree
• Counseling qualification or have undertaken related bereavement support study days

KNOWLEDGE & NATURE OF EXPERIENCE

• Evidence of completion of band 5 preceptorship programme
• Extensive experience of caring for bereaved families
• Knowledge of the legal framework around perinatal loss
• Knowledge of current policy drivers relating to pregnancy and baby loss
• Knowledge of challenges facing bereaved families including aspects of spiritual and religious care
• Effective internet and IT (Information Technology) skills
• Understanding of clinical governance and its relationship to the role
• Understanding of the Human Tissue Act and Guidelines in relation to pregnancy and baby loss
• Confident in caring for women with complex needs
• Demonstrates good written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge and experience of care pathways, and patient experience surrounding early pregnancy loss and termination of pregnancy

ANALYTICAL AND JUDGEMENT SKILLS

• Ability to prioritise and manage workload
• Ability to undertake audits
• Ability to make confident and sound decisions in complex and stressful situations, escalating issues where appropriate.
• Works independently, using initiative while understanding the boundaries of own role and competence.

PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE

• Demonstrates commitment to professional development
• Has a commitment to educate others for the benefit of all
• Evidence of advanced communication skills required for the role
• Demonstrates understanding of the importance of supportive working in a team.
• Ability to understand and adhere to the equal opportunities policy
• Willing to work on established Nursing/Midwifery information systems, EPR (Electronic Patient Record) or the relevant information system related to post
• Actively engages with and completes all mandatory training.

PERSONAL SKILLS / ABILITIES AND ATTRIBUTES

• Consistently adopts a compassionate and empathetic approach when interacting with patients and colleagues.
• Shows effective organisational skills alongside leadership potential.
• Organises workload efficiently and manages time effectively.
• Committed to quality improvements
• Resource for communication and dissemination of information from the multidisciplinary team.
• Willing to undertake and support all duties carried out by the Bereavement Team.
• Demonstrates resilience and effective strategies for managing stress and work pressures by prioritising tasks, maintaining open communication with colleagues, seeking support when appropriate, and practising self-care to ensure compassionate, high-quality support for bereaved families.
• Demonstrate alignment with the values and beliefs of the Trust
• Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of equality and inclusion in the delivery of this role
• Punctual, and flexible across hours of work when required
• Able to remain calm and focused in emotionally challenging and high-pressure situations.
• Recognises the importance of seeking support and debriefing following emotionally challenging situations

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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