Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Pregnancy Loss Midwife

The closing date is 04 December 2025

Job summary

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.

About us

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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Details

Date posted

27 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£50,008 to £56,908 a year per annum incl HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

151-JLM560

Job locations

Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Street

Slough

SL2 4HL


Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.

Job description

Job 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

  • Registered Midwife

Desirable

  • Leadership/management training

Experience

Essential

  • 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

  • Experience in supporting women who have undergone pregnancy loss

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Effective internet and IT skills
  • Ability to work on own initiative and prioritise workload effectively.

Desirable

  • Able to demonstrate successful change management and innovation
  • Knowledge of Human Tissue Authority Act (2004)
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Midwife

Desirable

  • Leadership/management training

Experience

Essential

  • 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

  • Experience in supporting women who have undergone pregnancy loss

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Effective internet and IT skills
  • Ability to work on own initiative and prioritise workload effectively.

Desirable

  • Able to demonstrate successful change management and innovation
  • Knowledge of Human Tissue Authority Act (2004)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Street

Slough

SL2 4HL


Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Street

Slough

SL2 4HL


Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Intrapartum Matron

Debbie Simkin

d.simkin@nhs.net

01753634520

Details

Date posted

27 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£50,008 to £56,908 a year per annum incl HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

151-JLM560

Job locations

Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Street

Slough

SL2 4HL


Supporting documents

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