Deputy Bereavement Midwife

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Deputy Bereavement Midwife to join our team on a fixed term/secondment basis to cover Maternity Leave. We are looking for an experienced, compassionate midwife who is dedicated to supporting families experiencing bereavement loss, as well as offering specialist bereavement support and training to the multidisciplinary team.

The Deputy Bereavement Midwife will work alongside the Bereavement Lead Midwife within the maternity service and will play an integral part in service delivery and development. The team provides individualised, holistic care to families throughout their journey.

The postholder will assist in the collection of data for MBRRACE-UK: Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK, and help to feedback recommendations from reports and relevant findings to key groups and implement service delivery changes as required,

The Deputy Bereavement Midwife will be involved in the process of coordinating reviews and implementing learning from the national standardised Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT).The postholder will aid and help implement the core principles of the National Bereavement Care pathway.

Main duties of the job

To be the Midwifery lead in the care of women who have experienced poor pregnancy outcomes during stillbirth, termination for abnormality and neonatal death.

Ensure MBBRACE/CNST standards are met and the service provides care as described by the national bereavement pathway.

Use the PMRT process to provide clinical oversight and review of mortality cases to ensure system wide learning and appropriate care and information for families.

Work with the Screening team to support providing the maternal newborn screening agenda.

Liaise with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) and promote joint working.

Manage and provide continuity of care and support for women and their families.

Facilitate training, advice and support staff involved in the care of these women.

Escalate concerns and issues as they arise, particularly in where patient safety is a risk.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:

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