Bereavement Coordinator - Full-Time

Erlanger Health System•Chattanooga, TN

9h•Onsite

About The Position

The Perinatal Bereavement Coordinator is a registered professional nurse responsible for the development, coordination, oversight, and delivery of comprehensive perinatal bereavement services across Women's and Infants' Services. This role provides direct and indirect care to patients and families experiencing pregnancy, fetal, neonatal, or infant loss while serving as a clinical leader and resource for nursing staff, physicians, and interdisciplinary teams. The coordinator ensures compliance with all state, legal, regulatory, and hospital requirements related to fetal and neonatal loss reporting and documentation. Responsibilities include maintaining pregnancy loss records, reporting fetal deaths to the Tennessee Vital Records Department, managing required compliance documentation, and serving as a liaison with funeral homes, pathology, genetics, maternal-fetal medicine specialists, and obstetric providers. This position provides clinical support and education to nursing staff across Labor & Delivery, OB Emergency Department, Mother-Baby, and designated Emergency Department units at both downtown and East campuses. The coordinator develops and delivers ongoing staff education, provides bedside bereavement support, coordinates comfort care services and genetic referrals, manages bereavement photography and family memory-sharing services, and ensures families receive appropriate discharge education and community support resources. This position supports the Never Forgotten Program, providing grief support and bereavement follow-up care to families experiencing pregnancy loss, neonatal death, or infant death. Responsibilities include facilitating support groups such as Moments to Share, coordinating remembrance and community awareness events, managing bereavement resources and donor-supported programs, and expanding access to perinatal and neonatal loss services throughout the region. Additionally, this role serves as an educator, consultant, and community advocate by promoting bereavement awareness, providing staff and community education, participating in local and regional committees, and supporting initiatives that improve outcomes and compassionate care for women, infants, and families experiencing loss.

Requirements

Graduate of approved school of nursing, associate's degree in nursing.
Current licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Tennessee
BLS completed prior to going to unit/department and to maintain ongoing thereafter.
NRP certification within 6 months of hire
ACLS required prior to completion of departmental orientation and maintain ongoing thereafter
De-escalation training/certification (example: MOAB) within 6 months and maintain ongoing yearly thereafter.
Minimum of five years nursing experience in a tertiary center in the Women's Health or Neonatal/Pediatric field.
One year must be in Labor & Delivery or NICU.

Nice To Haves

Certification in bereavement related field.
Management experience in the Women's Health field.

Responsibilities

Coordinating and overseeing perinatal bereavement services.
Providing compassionate support to patients and families experiencing pregnancy, fetal, neonatal, or infant loss.
Serving as a clinical resource for staff and providers.
Ensuring compliance with state and hospital reporting requirements.
Coordinating education, support services, community outreach, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Developing, coordinating, overseeing, and delivering comprehensive perinatal bereavement services.
Providing direct and indirect care to patients and families experiencing loss.
Serving as a clinical leader and resource for nursing staff, physicians, and interdisciplinary teams.
Ensuring compliance with all state, legal, regulatory, and hospital requirements related to fetal and neonatal loss reporting and documentation.
Maintaining pregnancy loss records.
Reporting fetal deaths to the Tennessee Vital Records Department.
Managing required compliance documentation.
Serving as a liaison with funeral homes, pathology, genetics, maternal-fetal medicine specialists, and obstetric providers.
Providing clinical support and education to nursing staff across Labor & Delivery, OB Emergency Department, Mother-Baby, and designated Emergency Department units.
Developing and delivering ongoing staff education.
Providing bedside bereavement support.
Coordinating comfort care services and genetic referrals.
Managing bereavement photography and family memory-sharing services.
Ensuring families receive appropriate discharge education and community support resources.
Supporting the Never Forgotten Program, providing grief support and bereavement follow-up care.
Facilitating support groups such as Moments to Share.
Coordinating remembrance and community awareness events.
Managing bereavement resources and donor-supported programs.
Expanding access to perinatal and neonatal loss services throughout the region.
Serving as an educator, consultant, and community advocate.
Promoting bereavement awareness.
Providing staff and community education.
Participating in local and regional committees.
Supporting initiatives that improve outcomes and compassionate care for women, infants, and families experiencing loss.