Job overview

This is an exciting secondment opportunity to join an award winning bereavement team to cover maternity leave.

The Bereavement Lead Midwife will work as part of the MDT and play an integral part in service delivery and development.  They will provide clinical leadership within the maternity service and individualised care to bereaved women and birthing people and their families.

Interviews will take place 7 February 2025.

Main duties of the job

The Bereavement Midwife will contribute to the implementation of the National Saving Babies Lives (SBL) Care Bundle and will review and agree actions for SBL version 2 to be published in 2019, submitting data as requested to the Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Network.

The Bereavement Midwife will ensure that the safety and care of women is their primary concern and will ensure that nursing, midwifery and corporate standards are implemented, maintained, monitored and improved upon where necessary. The bereavement midwife would be instrumental in providing early access for bereaved parents in subsequent pregnancies.

The Bereavement Midwife will ensure that the safety and care of women is their primary concern and will ensure that nursing, midwifery and corporate standards are implemented, maintained, monitored and improved upon where necessary and implent the core principles of the National Bereavement Care pathway.

Working for our organisation

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.