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Job summary

Main area
Midwifery
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
18.75 hours per week
Job ref
289-SC-2152
Employer
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Chelsea and Westminster NHS Hospital Foundation Trust
Town
London
Salary
£51,488 - £57,802 per annum pro rata incl. HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
22/05/2024 23:59

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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust logo

Bereavement Midwife

NHS AfC: Band 7

About our Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.

Our nearly 7,000 members of staff are proud to care for a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, including our award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We’re one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for—our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in the domains of safe, effective, caring and responsive, and 'Outstanding' in the domains of well-led and use of resources.

Our facilities are among the best in the country. We invest around £10m a year in our estate and have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster.  Works commence in spring 2024 on an ambitious £80m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at our West Middlesex site.

Applications are welcomed from applicants who wish to apply for the position on the basis of a smarter or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, such requests will be taken under consideration and accommodated where the needs of the service allow. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a passionate midwife to join our specialist midwifery Team.

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 program around baby loss and bereavement to all health care professionals.

Main duties of the job

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 implement service delivery changes as required 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 Care pathway.

The Bereavement Midwife will be a practicing registered 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/birthing people and their families

Working for our organisation

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond. 

We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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·         Provide expert support and facilitation of staff in the provision of information. care, support

and practical advice to women/birthing people with confirmed fetal abnormality, who choose to terminate their pregnancy and  to those who choose to continue their pregnancy including co-ordinating palliative care if this is appropriate.

 

·         Lead and support staff, setting standards of care in the provision of information and practical advice to parents who have suffered the loss of their baby through miscarriage, termination for abnormalities, stillbirth, neonatal or Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Syndrome.

·         Be the named lead and co-ordinator for women/birthing people, families and staff with regards to information relating to pregnancy loss. Has the ability to assess each individual case and exercise exceptional judgement when providing personalized care and support for parents.

Professional

 

·         To maintain and improve knowledge and expertise in current developments and future trends in relation to Midwifery management and practice, including the Trust’s Strategy for Nursing and Midwifery and Scope of Professional Practice.

·         Working with colleagues to performance manage and monitor bereavement care in maternity services, in accordance with the national and locally agreed quality outcomes, including the monitoring of service quality from the perspective of those who are bereaved.

·         Working under pressure with tight schedules and deadlines in order to meet Trust targets, Quality and governance

·         To be responsible for and maintain own professional development

·         Maintain an awareness of relevant research and encourage the implementation of relevant findings into clinical practice

·         Works within the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) Midwives Rules & Standards with particular regard to registration of stillbirth and maternal death.

·         Ability to use research evidence in own practice.

Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.

 

Person specification

Education and qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered midwife with evidence of practice in all areas of midwifery
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
  • Mentorship qualification
  • Degree level or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of other professional managerial qualifications
  • Counselling Qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Communicating effectively with women, staff and other agencies
  • Facilitate effective team working
  • Evidence of knowledge of recent midwifery research and clinical audit
  • Demonstrate an ability to apply research to practice and to support changes in practice as a result of clinical audit
  • Ability to practice within the scope of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
  • IT skills, Excel
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of professional development relevant to the specific role
  • Understanding of budgets and dynamics

Skills and knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Previous comprehensive midwifery experience
  • Able to prioritise and meet deadlines
  • Effective time management for self and others
  • Presentation skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDWe are a Living Wage EmployerCapital Nurse, LondonHealthy Workplace - Commitment 2018Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoTimewise helps businesses to attract and develop the best talent through flexible working.No smoking policyCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthArmed Forces Covenant Bronze AwardArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Angela Cox
Job title
Labour Ward Matron
Email address
[email protected]
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