Maternity Bereavement Support Worker

5 days ago


Colchester, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Support Worker to join our Maternity Team at Colchester and Ipswich as Maternity Bereavement Support Worker.
You will be working alongside specialist midwives, caring for women and pregnant people in the areas of bereavement, loss and perinatal mental health.
You will support Bereavement team within Maternity Service to ensure that there is a coordinated approach to providing seamless bereavement care to women/birthing people and their families.
We have full time and part time hours in Colchester and part time hours at Ipswich hospital.
Develop, manage, and maintain positive, appropriate relationships with service users and their families demonstrating respect, kindness, compassion, and empathy always.
Work alongside the specialist midwives (bereavement and perinatal mental health) to actively participate in the recognition and prevention of perinatal mental health illness as part of daily routine.
Work with the bereavement midwife in their role, establishing a relationship with families to support them through the grieving process, and provide emotional support if/when the family embark on a future pregnancy journey.
Work alongside the perinatal mental health midwives in supporting women and people affected by mild/moderate mental health illness during pregnancy and the early postnatal period on a daily basis.
As a key member of the MDT to attend clinics, meetings when required and act as a patient advocate.
To assist patients during their stay on the ward, with memory making, spending time with their baby, emotional support. Ensuring the privacy and dignity of all patients are maintained being mindful of patient confidentiality.
Act as a positive role model and provide sound professional knowledge to all members of the multi-disciplinary team within the maternity and neonatal service.
Provide both practical and emotional support to women and their families, giving them opportunity to acknowledge and express their concerns in a safe environment maintaining confidentiality.
One of the largest Trusts in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.
To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description


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