Neonatal Palliative and Bereavement Lead Nurse

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Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking a Neonatal Palliative and Bereavement Lead Nurse at Hull Royal Infirmary. This vital role involves supporting families of sick neonates and overseeing bereavement care. The successful candidate will provide clinical leadership and develop educational programs for health professionals, ensuring excellence in patient care.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with Neonatal qualification.
• Mentorship preparation programme.
• Experience in complex clinical situations.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate education and support for families of neonates.
• Clinical leadership within the neonatal service.
• Develop and deliver education programs on bereavement.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Teamwork

Education

Registered Nurse - Child or Adult Branch

Qualification in Speciality – Neonatology

Degree or equivalent level of education

Leadership qualification

Job description

Employer Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Hull Royal Infirmary Town Hull Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 11/06/2025 23:59

Neonatal Palliative and Bereavement Lead Nurse

Band 7

Job overview

A very exciting opportunity has arisen for experienced registered neonatal nurse to join our substantial and supportive team. Our Neonatal Unit is creating a Band 7 Palliative and Bereavement Lead Nurse to facilitate the education and nursing provision to enable them to support parents and families of the sick or premature neonate, families and their unborn baby who require palliative, complex and end of life care and those families that require continuing bereavement care.

We are looking for highly motivated and dynamic Neonatal Nurse who can provide an experienced liaison route for all professionals in the MDT, working in collaboration in order to achieve the best care for our group of babies and families.

Main duties of the job

To facilitate the education and nursing provision to enable them to support parents and families of the sick or premature neonate, families and their unborn baby who require palliative, complex and end of life care and those families that require continuing bereavement care.

You will be an expert in this field and take the role of a key worker for these families and provide on-going and continuing support and facilitate family centered care.

The specialist nurse will provide an experienced liaison route for all professionals in the MDT, working in collaboration in order to achieve the best care for this group of babies and families. The specialist nurse will receive referrals (antenatal) and make direct referrals to doctors, GP’s, HV’s, Community Nursing Teams, children’s hospices and other Allied Health Professionals.

The specialist nurse will ensure there is early identification of appropriate babies, ensuring they are being cared for in the most suitable environment. Whilst liaising and work closely with internal and external MDT to ensure smooth transition to other services and providers.

The Palliative & Bereavement Lead will provide clinical leadership within the neonatal service and will play an integral part in service delivery and development. They will be pivotal in developing and delivering an education programme around baby loss and bereavement to all health care professionals.

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

The Palliative & Bereavement Lead will provide clinical leadership within the neonatal service and will playan integral part in service delivery and development. They will be pivotal in developing and delivering aneducation programme around baby loss and bereavement to all health care professionals.

In addition, the successful candidate will have the skills and personality to have a positive impact on the working days of colleagues, recognising openly good practice and effort whilst at the same time challenging practice constructively and supportively where necessary.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. You can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the post by assessing your circumstances against criteria specified on the gov.uk website .

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

• • Registered Nurse - Child or Adult Branch or registered Midwife
• • Qualification in Speciality – Neonatology 405 or equivalent
• • Mentorship preparation programme or equivalent e.g. 997 / 998, or on live register of mentors
• • Evidence of professional self-development
• • Degree or equivalent level of education or equivalent experience
• • Competent in the use on standard IT packages and the aptitude to learn how to use new IT systems,
• • Evidence of further study/knowledge at master’s level or equivalent.
• • Recognised leadership qualification or equivalent experience
• • Specialist training in bereavement care
• • Coaching and counselling qualification
• • Evidence of commitment to continuous learning and application in practice.

Knowledge, Training & Experience

• • Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
• • Ability to support and lead the team in complex and challenging clinical situations
• • Experience of working with families with life shortening illness/bereavement/ end of care needs.
• • Evidence based knowledge of current clinical and professional issues related to neonatal palliative and end of life care.
• • Experience of assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for patients/service-users/staff demonstrating knowledge of specific needs
• • Experience of change management
• • Experience of working in an MDT and across organisational and professional boundaries
• • Excellent/exceptional interpersonal and communication skills (Emotional Intelligence)
• • Work collaboratively with the team and line manager to ensure that policies and strategies support service users, their families, and staff when making decisions.
• • Critically apply learning from national reports to your area of practice, including benchmarking activities
• • Experience in neonatal complex and palliative care.
• • Experience in neonatal bereavement support
• • Experience of involvement in Quality Improvement.
• • Experience of involvement in policy development

Communication and Interpersonal Skills

• • To possess a critical awareness of your personal impact on staff
• • Advocate and promote a culture which rewards positive behaviour
• • Ability to create a culture where psychological safety and quality improvement is achieved and maintained in a well led service
• • Foster collaboration to enable the team to engage in decision-making
• • Promote a psychologically safe environment where team members are encouraged to raise concerns and share learning
• • Identify and act when behaviour does not align with, or undermines the principles of equality, diversity and civility
• • Apply conflict resolution skills to de-escalate and resolve challenging conversations
• • Critically evaluate own role in creating and mitigating conflict
• • Lead compassionately to find solutions to resolve distress for staff and families
• • Be approachable, trustworthy, and professional to foster effective and kind communication with the team and service users.
• • Use hot debriefs to create opportunities for immediate learning
• • Demonstrate awareness of current issues of National recommendations in line with midwifery and nursing.
• • Appraise and implement the principles of human factors when leading the MDT.
• • Understand the key principles of human factors and their impact on service

Special Attributes and other

• • Excellent time management and organisation skills
• • Role model the values of the organisation to reflect kindness, trustworthiness, and approachability.
• • Proactively seek out opportunities to improve own knowledge and skills to remain effective in the role of clinical sister
• • Use audit to measure, appraise and interpret data on service users’ experiences and feedback

Other Requirements

• • Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post
• • Good sickness/attendance record in current employment

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Francesca Matthews Job title Neonatal Matron Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01482 605358 Additional information

Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.