Pregnancy Loss Midwife

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 Wexham Park Hospital.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

If you are a midwife looking for career progression and have a special interest in pregnancy loss, we would love to hear from you.

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.