Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Secondment/ Fixed term for 12 months)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-E-267231
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Lead Bereavement Midwife
Band 7
Job overview
This is a unique and rewarding opportunity for an experienced and compassionate midwife to lead and shape a specialist bereavement service, supporting families through pregnancy and baby loss with kindness, expertise, and respect.
As a key clinical leader, you will coordinate the Rosie Bereavement Team and Rainbow Clinic, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, and truly patient-centred care at some of the most difficult times in a family’s life.
We are looking for someone with strong clinical credibility, excellent communication skills and the emotional intelligence to support both families and staff. You will be a confident leader, able to guide multidisciplinary teams, drive service improvement, and contribute to education, governance and national standards in bereavement care.
In return, you will join a supportive and forward-thinking team committed to compassionate care, continuous learning, and innovation. This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful difference, influence service development, and be part of a team that truly values kindness, safety and excellence.
This post is a 12 month secondment.
Main duties of the job
Bereavement Support & Leadership
Lead and coordinate the Rosie Bereavement Team, ensuring delivery of high-quality, compassionate, patient-centred care in line with Trust values. Provide expert support to families experiencing pregnancy or baby loss, including post-mortem consent, care planning, and coordination of funeral arrangements. Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and external agencies to ensure seamless care. Maintain clinical credibility through regular practice and support staff through guidance, training and mentorship.
Oversee bereavement governance processes, including mortality reviews (PMRT), audits, and compliance with national standards. Drive service development, quality improvement, and implementation of best practice, while maintaining clear referral pathways, policies, and standard operating procedures.
Rosie Rainbow Clinic
Coordinate and manage the Rainbow Clinic service, including triaging referrals, managing caseloads, and delivering antenatal care. Act as a patient advocate, providing ongoing clinical and emotional support, and ensure effective multidisciplinary communication for holistic care.
Working for our organisation
Come Nurse with us…
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It’s a great place to nurse, work and live.
You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
• Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Please note: Internal applicants on permanent contracts can apply for this post as a secondment. For secondments you must have the approval of your line manager before applying. If you are an internal applicant currently on a fixed term contract you are able to apply for this as a fixed term position.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 31st August 2026.
Interviews are due to be held on 14th September 2026.
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife with Diploma/Degree in Midwifery
- Up to date professional portfolio, demonstrating on-going professional development with bereavement specialist training
Desirable criteria
- Bereavement qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate a working knowledge of midwifery in all areas of the service.
- Management responsibility experience
- Evidence of involvement with clinical audit and research
Desirable criteria
- Bleep holder experience
- NHS experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Awareness of current research and its impact on evidence base care.
- Knowledge of current national reports relating to bereavement care and their implication.
Desirable criteria
- Involvement in writing policies and guidelines
- Appraisal training
- MAPS training
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to carry out the full range of midwifery skills in all clinical areas.
- Developed interpersonal skills.
- Excellent communication skills across teams
- Teaching skills
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
- To rotate to all areas on both day and night shifts.
- Support and develop midwifery led care
- Ability to travel between the Trust and community services.
- Support and develop midwifery led care
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Desirable criteria
- Able to act up for line manager/team leader.
- Confident and motivated
- Supportive within a team framework
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Cathy Bevens
- Job title
- Lead Safety and Governance Midwife
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223 217745
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