Job overview

An opportunity has arisen within the Homerton Healthcare Foundation Trust to be a Specialist Bereavement Midwife. This post is part time 0.4 WTE (15 hours per week). It must be Monday and Tuesday days working (This is a Job shared).. This role will include weekend cover to support the provision of a 7-day bereavement care service.

We are seeking an innovative, proactive, compassionate Midwife who can demonstrate a high level of specialised bereavement care through evidenced based information who has exceptional organisational skills to monitor, review and provide assurance that the service meets the national recommendations.

We welcome applications from those from a global majority background. 

Main duties of the job

As a Specialist Bereavement lead midwife, the role includes:

• Being an information and support source for staff, bereaved parents and their families;
•  Being familiar with all the policies and protocols relevant to caring for parents
• Developing knowledge insight and skills to provide high quality sensitive care to parents who experience the death of a baby, before, during or short after birth.
• Act as a clinical specialist providing verbal and written information to bereaved families on funeral options.
• Enabling the bereaved access their entitlements by liaising with outside agencies.
• Being a resource for medical, nursing and midwifery staff on physical, psychological and administrative aspects of bereavement care.
• Being aware of research and best practice in bereavement, and identifying, through audit, and other means, areas for improvement in bereavement care within the Homerton Foundation 
  Trust. 
• Maintain and develop own professional and clinical knowledge /skills and personal development, including participating in in-service training education, standards and professional guidelines and support implementation of the National Bereavement Care Pathway .

Working for our organisation

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.

We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff.  This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan.  All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.

We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.

Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.

Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.