Patient Safety Midwife-PMRT Lead

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Ipswich; Hybrid; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Part time

Job summary

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced midwife to join our Women's and Children's Governance Team as a Patient Safety Midwife with lead responsibility for the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT).

This substantive 15-hour-per-week role offers flexible hybrid working across hospital sites in Ipswich and Colchester, with some remote work as required to support service delivery.

Qualifications

• Midwife with current registration and relevant governance experience.
• Experience with perinatal/maternal safety reviews.
• Ability to coordinate complex review processes across teams.
• Sensitive engagement with bereaved families and carers.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate PMRT reviews and meetings.
• Prepare PMRT cases and reports.
• Monitor actions and timescales for PMRT.
• Analyze themes and trends from PMRT findings.
• Disseminate learning to improve maternity and neonatal care.
• Support engagement with bereaved families in reviews.

Skills

PMRT coordination

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Bereavement engagement

Data analysis

Governance knowledge

Education

Midwifery degree

Tools

Epic EPR

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated midwife to join our Women's and Children's Governance Team as a Patient Safety Midwife with lead responsibility for the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT) process.

This is a substantive 15-hour-per-week role working across our maternity services. The post offers a flexible hybrid working arrangement, with a combination of on-site working across both hospital sites and working from home, according to service requirements.

You will take a lead role in the coordination and delivery of the Trust's PMRT process, ensuring that reviews are timely, thorough, multidisciplinary and centred on the experiences and voices of women, birthing people and their families.

You will work closely with the maternity and neonatal colleagues and the wider multidisciplinary team to support high-quality reviews, identify learning and ensure that recommendations contribute to meaningful and sustained improvements in maternity and neonatal care.

A key aspect of the role will be supporting sensitive and compassionate engagement with bereaved families, ensuring they are offered the opportunity to contribute to the review of their care and that their questions and perspectives are appropriately represented within the PMRT process.

Responsibilities will include coordinating PMRT reviews and meetings, preparing cases and reports, monitoring actions and timescales, analysing themes and trends, and supporting the dissemination of learning across the service.

You also contribute to the wider maternity patient safety and governance agenda, promoting a positive culture of learning, openness and continuous improvement.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

Find out about living and working here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A