EPAU Bereavement Nurse | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 20 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2025 |
| Location: | HALIFAX, HX3 0PW |
| Company: | Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7117711/372-FSS2768 |
Summary
To work as a clinical specialist providing written and verbal information to bereaved families. To support women and their families who are experiencing foetal loss and/or childbirth related difficulties.
To provide support to nursing, midwifery and medical staff within the directorate when caring for women experiencing a loss in pregnancy, stillbirth or early neonatal death.
To 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.
Contact and support bereaved parents during their initial grieving process. Accompany patients to appointments in the Trust relating to their loss, such as post mortem result discussion with their consultant.
Signposting bereaved families to further support services.
Developing staff knowledge to enable them to support bereaved families.
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Act as an effective advocate for the bereaved woman and her family, responding to their needs to ensure their care is of the highest possible standard.
Be an accessible resource and give practical help and support where appropriate, either by telephone or in person to staff of all levels, patients and their families.
To give emotional and psychological support to bereaved parents and the staff involved in their care. This may involve care in the antenatal period, during labour and the postnatal period.
Ensure access to services is initiated and maintained for those women needing support for an appropriate time period including home visits for those for whom entering the hospital environment causes considerable distress.
Where required, provide hands-on care in EPAU to women who have a diagnosed perinatal loss.
Counsel families regarding post-mortem and other investigations, and obtain consents for post mortem examinations when required.
Provide support and advice to staff and bereaved families within the division regarding registration of their babys' birth and death, making funeral arrangements, and ensuring that the relevant documentation is completed.
This advert closes on Tuesday 3 Jun 2025
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