Bereavement Midwife

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Midwife skilled in supporting bereaved families to join our Bereavement Midwife team. Alongside the existing post holders, the new team member will be responsible for ensuring excellence in bereavement care and the support and training of maternity staff. They will also be required to develop and maintain high quality standards of care and empower colleagues to deliver this.

The Bereavement Midwife will be a practising midwife who will lead and work as a member of the Multidisciplinary team within the maternity service. They will facilitate and provide individualised care to bereaved women and their families.
Overall responsibility for the provision of care, support and practical advice to women and their families following the loss of their baby through miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal or sudden infant
death syndrome, this is a Trust wide position.
The Bereavement Midwife will provide clinical leadership within the maternity services 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. The Bereavement midwife will assist in the development of guidelines and pathways, and will review them in relation to stillbirths, late miscarriage, medical termination and neonatal
deaths.

**They will collect the data for MBRRACE-UK**: Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK and feedback reports and relevant findings to key groups

The Bereavement Midwife will be responsible for coordinating/Implementing the national standardised Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT).
The Bereavement midwife will lead and implement the core principles of the National Bereavement

Our maternity services provide a full range of maternity care. Our dedicated midwives, doctors, maternity care support workers (MCSW’s) and support staff are committed to providing personalised care to the highest standards.

The service at North Bristol Trust is based at Southmead Hospital and provides a full range of obstetric services for those who live in the catchment of North Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. The maternity department is one of the largest in the country, was awarded ‘Good’ by the CQC has more than 5200 births each year offering women the choice of 4 places of birth. These include a Consultant led Obstetric Unit with 2 HDU rooms and 9 birthing rooms and a pool room. There is an extensive maternal medicine services, including Perinatal Mental Health and Complex Care team and a Fetal Medicine Service.

The Maternity services are well renowned nationally and internationally, having developed PROMPT and with a wide research portfolio.

We offer a robust preceptorship and induction programme and will support you with achieving your career goals. This post is currently Monday to Friday and will include being part of the clinical on-call rota for the maternity unit.

The post holder will have a high level of relevant expert knowledge and skills, which will be
used to manage, develop and lead care for families experiencing bereavement.
- The bereavement midwife will have continuing responsibility for the staff training in

bereavement and support including induction training/package for new staff, organising and
delivering multidisciplinary training, compiling and maintaining resources.
- The bereavement midwife will develop future conferences and work on creating a centre of

excellence for other health care professional to access.
- Working with a lead obstetrician the Bereavement midwife will provide monthly postnatal

clinics in suitable area the clinic will review care, outcomes, results of investigations and
future pregnancy planning.
- Provide expert advice and support to staff who are themselves supporting parents through

the practicalities of childbirth when faced with the addition of unexpected pregnancy loss
- Provide expert advice to staff in the practical assistance to parents with regards to

Registration of birth and death and making funeral arrangements for their baby.
- The post holder will act as a role model to others.
- To maintain a visible presence and provide expert advice and support for staff who are

themselves supporting parents through the practicalities of birth when faced with the
addition of unexpected pregnancy loss.
- To ensure HTA (Human Tissue Act) compliance in line with national and local Policy.
- To disseminate learning to reduce stillbirths and neonatal deaths in line with national

guidance to include ‘Each baby Counts’.
- To have an up to date knowledge of local services available to pregnant women in relation

to bereavement and pregnancy loss.
- To work in a clinical capacity as a midwife