Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 20.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 359-8038145-T3-A
- Employer
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tunbridge Wells Hospital
- Town
- Tunbridge Wells
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Bereavement Midwife
Band 7
Job overview
To lead the Directorate in ensuring a sensitive, responsive and compassionate service is available to all women and their families who have experienced bereavement due to miscarriage, stillbirth, and termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality or neonatal death.To educate multi-disciplinary health professionals in all aspects of bereavement care and to ensure that systems and processes are understood and also care is delivered in a way that is compassionate and sensitive to their individual needs. To provide support and advice for bereaved families and for staff. To be responsible for co-ordinating the pathways, for ensuring that all policies and protocols are current and that they comply with national Guidance across every department. To be a positive role model to all members of staff by promoting and sharing best practice.
Main duties of the job
We’ve provided all the details you need about this role in the job description and person specification. Please take a moment to review the criteria in the person specification and share specific examples in your application that demonstrate how you meet these requirements. Please also check your application for errors/omissions prior to submission.
Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check at Enhanced Level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children). If a role involves regulated activity and requires a DBS check with a barred list check, you cannot apply if you are on the barred list.
Working for our organisation
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust ranks among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and was named the second-best Trust to work for in the South East in the 2023 and 2024 NHS Staff Survey.
We are a large acute hospital trust in south-east England, providing general hospital services and specialist care to around 600,000 residents in West Kent and East Sussex. With a dedicated and diverse team of over 8,000 staff we are proud to offer specialised cancer services to over two million people through the Kent Oncology Centre.
Fordcombe Hospital, near Tunbridge Wells, became part of the Trust in October 2024. Specialising in planned care, it offers two operating theatres, 28 inpatient and day-care beds, diagnostic services (X-ray, MRI, CT, and endoscopy), and consultation/treatment rooms.
Looking for flexible working?
We are a flexible working-friendly organisation. Whether it’s adjusting your hours or exploring other flexible arrangements, we want to work with you to find the best solution for you, our patients, and the Trust. Talk to us about how we can accommodate your working needs.
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Joining us includes a comprehensive benefits package:
- At least 27 days of annual leave plus public/bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time staff).
- Membership in the NHS Pension Scheme, with a 20.6% employer contribution and life assurance benefits
- Blue Light card eligibility
- And more, additional benefits can be found in the benefits documents below
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We’ve provided all the details you need about this role in the job description and person specification. Please take a moment to review the criteria in the person specification and share specific examples in your application that demonstrate how you meet these requirements. Please also check your application for errors/omissions prior to submission.
Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check at Enhanced Level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children). If a role involves regulated activity and requires a DBS check with a barred list check, you cannot apply if you are on the barred list.
All successful applicants will be required to complete our corporate trust induction once a start date has been agreed.
Following your corporate induction, you will be expected to attend the Trust’s Induction Programme for RNs, NAs, RMs, ODPs and Paramedics. The programme is full-time (please email [email protected] if this is problematic) and will involve travel to both Trust sites. The programme includes supernumerary shifts in the clinical area, classroom-based sessions and e-learning.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RM
- Degree level
- Mentorship in practice
- Evidence of further study and development of professional and academic skills
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of undertaking post-mortem training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of grieving process
- Understanding of the counselling process
- Experience of working in stressful situations with bereaved parents and families
- Sound knowledge of recent Government/ Professional documents with awareness of implications to service provision
- Experience of teaching in multidisciplinary settings
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Good presentation skills
- Act as role model to multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to exercise professional accountability and autonomy
- Ability to act effectively within a multidisciplinary team. Ensuring collaborations across professional boundaries
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tracy Thresher
- Job title
- Matron for Delivery Suite and Maternity Theatres
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01892 633604
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