Pregnancy Loss Midwife

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Slough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a compassionate Pregnancy Loss Lead Midwife to join their maternity team. This role offers a unique opportunity to provide essential bereavement services to families facing the challenges of pregnancy loss. You will act as a clinical specialist, supporting not only bereaved families but also training and guiding medical and nursing staff in bereavement care. With a commitment to inclusivity and professional development, this organization values work-life balance and offers flexible working patterns to meet the needs of both staff and patients. If you are passionate about making a difference in this sensitive area, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with experience in bereavement care and support.
• Leadership training is a plus for career progression.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist support to families experiencing pregnancy loss.
• Liaise with multidisciplinary teams for seamless service delivery.

Skills

Bereavement Care

Midwifery

Communication Skills

Educational Resource Development

Education

Registered Midwife

Leadership/Management Training

Job description

Job Overview

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is excited to announce an exciting opportunity for a Pregnancy Loss Lead Midwife to join our maternity team.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced midwife to provide an essential bereavement service to women, their families and staff at Wexham Park Hospital.

Main duties of the job

As The Pregnancy Loss Lead You Will:

• Act as a clinical specialist providing verbal and written information to bereaved families and to support women and their families, who have experienced fetal loss and/or childbirth related difficulties.
• Liaise with multidisciplinary teams which include Fetal Medicine, Mental Health, Perinatal Pathologists etc. providing a seamless service to these families.
• Provide highly specialist guidance and support to midwifery, nursing and medical staff within the Women’s Directorate when caring for women experiencing a loss in pregnancy, stillbirth or early neonatal death.
• Act as an educational resource for medical, nursing and midwifery staff on physical, psychological and administrative aspects of bereavement care. In addition this role is to provide support and training for staff in bereavement related issues.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

If you are a midwife looking for career progression and have a special interest in pregnancy loss, we would love to hear from you.

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification
Qualifications

Essential criteria:

• Registered Midwife

Desirable criteria:

• Leadership/management training

Experience

Essential criteria:

• Experience in dealing with bereaved parents
• Experience as Band 6 Registered Midwife

Knowledge

Essential criteria:

• Awareness of national and local goals and expectations