Job Overview
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a rewarding and meaningful opportunity for a dedicated Pregnancy Loss Lead Midwife to join our compassionate maternity team at Wexham Park Hospital.
In this vital role, you will use your expertise and empathy to deliver an exceptional bereavement service, supporting women, their families, and our staff through some of their most challenging moments. This is a chance to make a profound difference, contribute to high-quality maternity care, and help shape a service grounded in dignity, compassion, and clinical excellence.
A job share will be considered for part-time applicants.
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.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
- Leadership/management training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience as Band 6 Registered Midwife
- Evidence of MDT working
- Experience of clinical audit/quality issues within the health care setting.
- Epidural management experience.
- Perineal suturing experience
- IV drugs and cannulation experience.
- Waterbirth experience
- Home birth experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience in supporting women who have undergone pregnancy loss
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- Effective internet and IT skills
- Ability to work on own initiative and prioritise workload effectively.
Desirable criteria
- Able to demonstrate successful change management and innovation
- Knowledge of Human Tissue Authority Act (2004)
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
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