About this role
Job summary
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.
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.
About us
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?
o Our values and reputation for outstanding careo Opportunities to experience a range of specialitieso Career and development opportunitieso Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support teamo Research experience and opportunitieso Lovely location and quality of lifeo Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:- applied for a Graduate visa- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 26 May 2026
Interviews are due to be held on 2 June 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 caf, 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
Registered Midwife with Diploma/Degree in Midwifery Up to date professional portfolio, demonstrating on-going professional development with bereavement specialist training
Desirable
Bereavement qualification
Experience Essential
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
Bleep holder experience NHS experience
Knowledge Essential
Awareness of current research and its impact on evidence base care. Knowledge of current national reports relating to bereavement care and their implication.
Desirable
Involvement in writing policies and guidelines Appraisal training MAPS training
Skills Essential
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
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
Able to act up for line manager/team leader. Confident and motivated Supportive within a team framework
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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 Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Cambridge
CB2 0QQ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.cuh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)