Bereavement Midwife
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role seeks a compassionate midwife to join the specialist Bereavement Team at Birmingham Women's Hospital. The post holder will support families experiencing pregnancy and baby loss, coordinating and delivering specialist, family-centred bereavement care. It involves managing a caseload, supporting colleagues in delivering high standards of care, and contributing to staff education and training. The position offers professional development opportunities and is based at Birmingham Women's Hospital, working three days a week on a rotational rota.
Key responsibilities
- Coordinate and deliver specialist bereavement care to women, partners, and families experiencing pregnancy and baby loss.
- Manage a caseload of bereaved families, ensuring their individual needs and preferences are met.
- Support midwifery, nursing, medical, and allied health professional colleagues in delivering high standards of bereavement care.
- Lead and contribute to the education, training, and development of staff to promote best practice.
- Organise workload efficiently while meeting daily requests of the bereavement team.
- Work on a rotational rota, including weekdays, weekends, and bank holidays.
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife BSc or equivalent degree
- Evidence of completion of band 5 preceptorship programme
- Extensive experience of caring for bereaved families
- Knowledge of the legal framework around perinatal loss
- Knowledge of current policy drivers relating to pregnancy and baby loss
- Knowledge of challenges facing bereaved families including aspects of spiritual and religious care
- Effective internet and IT (Information Technology) skills
- Understanding of clinical governance and its relationship to the role
- Understanding of the Human Tissue Act and Guidelines in relation to pregnancy and baby loss
- Confident in caring for women with complex needs
- Demonstrates good written and verbal communication skills
- Knowledge and experience of care pathways, and patient experience surrounding early pregnancy loss and termination of pregnancy
- Ability to prioritise and manage workload
- Ability to undertake audits
- Ability to make confident and sound decisions in complex and stressful situations, escalating issues where appropriate.
- Works independently, using initiative while understanding the boundaries of own role and competence.
- Demonstrates commitment to professional development
- Has a commitment to educate others for the benefit of all
- Evidence of advanced communication skills required for the role
- Demonstrates understanding of the importance of supportive working in a team.
- Ability to understand and adhere to the equal opportunities policy
- Willing to work on established Nursing/Midwifery information systems, EPR (Electronic Patient Record) or the relevant information system related to post
- Actively engages with and completes all mandatory training.
- Consistently adopts a compassionate and empathetic approach when interacting with patients and colleagues.
- Shows effective organisational skills alongside leadership potential.
- Organises workload efficiently and manages time effectively.
- Committed to quality improvements
- Resource for communication and dissemination of information from the multidisciplinary team.
- Willing to undertake and support all duties carried out by the Bereavement Team.
- Demonstrates resilience and effective strategies for managing stress and work pressures by prioritising tasks, maintaining open communication with colleagues, seeking support when appropriate, and practising self-care to ensure compassionate, high-quality support for bereaved families.
- Demonstrate alignment with the values and beliefs of the Trust
- Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of equality and inclusion in the delivery of this role
- Punctual, and flexible across hours of work when required
- Able to remain calm and focused in emotionally challenging and high-pressure situations.
- Recognises the importance of seeking support and debriefing following emotionally challenging situations
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship qualification
- Counseling qualification or have undertaken related bereavement support study days
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Bereavement Midwife
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
We areseekinga highly motivated, compassionate, and enthusiastic midwife to join our specialist Bereavement Team based at Birmingham Women's Hospital.
This rewarding roleprovidesan opportunity to support women, their partners, and families experiencing pregnancy and baby loss, from early pregnancy loss through to stillbirth, neonatal death, and intosubsequentpregnancies following loss. The post holder will coordinate and deliver specialist bereavement care that is compassionate, family-centred, holistic, andequitable, ensuring that the individual needs, wishes, and preferences of each family remain at the heart of their care.
Main duties of the job
Working as part of a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, the successful applicant will play a key role in supporting midwifery, nursing, medical, and allied health professional colleagues to deliver consistently high standardsof bereavement care across the Trust. The role also includes leading and contributing to the education, training, and development of staff to promote best practice and compassionate care.
The post holder will manage a caseload of bereaved families, and will coordinate their bereavement care, they will need to be highly motivated and able to organise their workload whi
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