Bereavement Lead Midwife

3 days ago


Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, United Kingdom Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust Full time £40,000 - £70,000 per year

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, provide clinical leadership and will play an integral part in service 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 in relation to stillbirths, late miscarriage, medical termination and neonatal deaths. Provision of reports as per local and national guidance specifies.

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. The Bereavement Midwife will keep abreast of current chances to service provision.

Communication And Relationship Skills
Overseeing and monitoring the quality, timeliness and development of midwifery and nursing care in accordance with relevant professional standards.

Ensuring that statistics are collated and reviewed and shared amongst a wider audience in order to ensure that excellent provision is made for bereaved families.

Ensuring that staff practice in accordance with statutory and corporate policies, including those specific to infection prevention and control.

The Bereavement Midwife will be work with parents, their families and staff to provide assistance, advice and support and to address problems and concerns, as required.

Analytical And Judgement Skills
Uses information obtained from patients and service users and charitable organisations to make changes to the patient environment and care where appropriate or necessary.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jennie Buckley Job title: Recruitment, Retention & Pastoral Lead Midwife Email address: Telephone number:

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