Bereavement Midwife - Prescot, United Kingdom - St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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Prescot, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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Fixed Term/Secondment for 12 months. Part Time 22.5 hours per week


An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and passionate midwife who is committed to delivering high quality, compassionate maternity care to undertake the role of Bereavement Midwife at STHK.

The post holder is expected to be an excellent communicator with good interpersonal skills.

They will provide leadership within this specialist role across the maternity service to ensure bereavement support and follow-up care is coordinated to a high standard.


The post holder will work collaboratively with the current bereavement midwife to ensure women, people and their families are supported and experience kind and compassionate care.

An Enhanced DBS with barred lists for both Adults & Children is required for this post.

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  • To lead in providing bereavement support for women and families suffering pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and early infant loss.
  • To coordinate and manage the processes following a pregnancy loss/maternal or neonatal death at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
  • To provide clinical support for staff who are providing bereavement support for a woman and her family.
  • To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing / midwifery care given to women using a holistic and innovative approach to practice.
  • To ensure that nursing/midwifery care is provided and is consistent with clinical guidelines and service developments e.g. MBRRACE-UK / NICE.
  • To ensure that St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust policies on safeguarding are adhered to and to attend regular updates with regard to detection and reporting of safeguarding incidents.
  • To act as the lead for bereavement support for women and their families linking with the wider multidisciplinary team and outside agencies.
  • To appropriately refer women for formal bereavement counselling at the request of the woman of where identified by healthcare professionals.
  • To take a key role in the planning and organisation of the annual memorial service.
  • To coordinate and provide access to the book of remembrance.
  • To liaise with all other agencies and departments involved in providing bereavement support i.e. coroner, chaplain, mortuary, cemetery, support groups, pathology departments, funeral service etc.


St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the only acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside, and one of the few in the entire country, to achieve the title of OUTSTANDING, rated by the Care Quality Commission.


We provide a full range of acute adult services to our local population of circa 360,000 and provide tertiary services across a much wider area in the North West, North Wales and Isle of Man.

We are a Major Trauma Unit and the Mersey Regional Burns Unit.


Our '5 Star Patient Care' strategy is at the heart of all that we do; supporting our vision to provide world class services for all our patients by getting it right for every patient, every time.


Our latest achievements include:


  • Acute Trust of the Year
  • HSJ Awards November 201
  • Trust rates Outstanding by the CQC
  • Inspection August 201
  • Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers and Health Service Journal)
  • Best acute Trust in the North West for quality of care (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
  • Best place to work in the North West (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
In the NHS Staff Survey 2021 the Trust scored the highest marks in the North West for the following areas;

  • Standard of care
  • Best place to work
  • Care of patients being the Trust's priority
  • Staff engagement
  • Staff morale
  • Compassionate and inclusive
Providing a safe environment for staff


KEY DUTIES

  • To lead in providing bereavement support for women and families suffering pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and early infant loss.
  • To coordinate and manage the processes following a pregnancy loss/maternal or neonatal death at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
  • To provide clinical support for staff who are providing bereavement support for a woman and her family.
  • To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing / midwifery care given to women using a holistic and innovative approach to practice.
  • To develop guidelines, standard operation procedures to aid standardised care.
  • To ensure that nursing/midwifery care is provided and is consistent with clinical guidelines and service developments e.g. MBRRACE-UK / NICE.
  • To ensure that St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust policies on safeguarding are adhered to and to attend regular updates with regard to detection and reporting of safeguarding incidents.
  • To act as the lead for bereavement support for women and their families linking with the wider multidisciplinary team and outside agencies.
  • To appropriately refer women for formal bereavement counselling at the request of the woman of where identified by healthcare professionals.
  • To take a key role in the planning and organisation of the annual memori
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