Job summary
- Main area
- Band 7 Pregnancy Loss Midwife
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 151-ES-16
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Town
- Frimley, Camberley
- Salary
- £50,008 - £56,908 per annum, pro rata incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Pregnancy Loss Midwife
Band 7
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 Frimley Park Hospital.
This role will be a job share with the current post holder, 18.75 hours per week.
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
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
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Awareness of national and local goals and expectations
- Completed preceptorship
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Smith-White
- Job title
- Matron for Intrapartum Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 6134036
- Additional information
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