Specialist Bereavement Nurses

Job description

Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Maternity and Gynaecology Team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as a Bereavement Nurse on a substantive contract.

We are seeking an experienced, compassionate, and motivated nurse to lead and develop the bereavement service, providing specialist support to women and families who experience pregnancy loss, stillbirth, neonatal death, or other significant life-changing events within maternity and gynaecology services.

The successful candidate will be an experienced registered nurse with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to provide sensitive, compassionate care during highly emotional and challenging circumstances. You will act as a key point of contact for bereaved families, coordinating follow-up care, investigations, including post-mortem processes, and ensuring families receive timely information and ongoing support throughout their bereavement journey.

You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, chaplaincy services, mortuary staff, and external organisations to ensure the delivery of high-quality, family-centred bereavement care. The role will also involve supporting staff education, contributing to service development, audit, governance activities, and quality improvement initiatives.

You will be joining a dedicated and supportive team committed to providing outstanding bereavement care and improving the experiences of women and families across the Trust.

Main duties of the job

• Provide compassionate, individualised care and support to families who experience pregnancy loss, ensuring their emotional, psychological and practical needs are met. This will require excellent communication skills due to the highly sensitive and emotional nature of the conversation.
• Manage, plan and coordinate care for all bereaved parents liaising with the multidisciplinary team, and other statutory/voluntary agencies, have the knowledge and expertise to be able to support women around sensitive decisions such as termination of pregnancy.
• Lead the development and implementation of bereavement pathways, policies, and guidelines, ensuring alignment with national standards such as the National Bereavement Care Pathway and CQC and NICE guidance.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care based on evidenced based practice.
• Facilitate the development of all staff including medical staff and support workers, providing training within this specialist field.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Environmental sustainability
Climate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people's health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environme