Perinatal Mortality and Morbidity (PMRT) Lead Midwife (NUH)

Barts Health NHS Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization is seeking a Lead PMRT Midwife to improve perinatal mortality outcomes at Newham University Hospital. This role involves collaborating with various teams, managing specialist knowledge in perinatal care, and implementing national standards. Candidates must be qualified midwives with excellent communication skills and a commitment to patient safety. This position aims to provide compassionate care while addressing the needs of bereaved families.

Benefits

Supportive working environment

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Requires midwifery specialist knowledge of Perinatal morbidity and mortality standards.
• Evidence of leading and managing a team or clinical service is essential.
• Ability to negotiate and influence with various staff groups.

Responsibilities

• Lead our approach to preventing and reducing perinatal mortality.
• Conduct gap analysis and benchmark services against national reports.
• Support bereavement teams with on-call requirements.

Skills

Excellent problem solving skills

Capable of working with both clinical and non-clinical staff

Strong root cause analysis skills

Excellent organisational skills

Interpersonal communication and networking skills

Education

Registered Midwife

Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience

Teaching qualification or equivalent

Job description

Perinatal Mortality and Morbidity (PMRT) Lead Midwife (NUH)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced midwife to join the Women's Health Safety Team as Lead PMRT (Perinatal Mortality Review Tool) Midwife at Newham University Hospital (NUH).

MBRRACE PMRT is a national tool designed to help understand why stillbirths and neonatal deaths occur, to try to prevent future deaths from occurring. As Lead PMRT Midwife, you will hold responsibility for ensuring that the MBRRACE Perinatal Mortality Review Tool is updated for NUH maternity services in line with standards set by MBRRACE, NHS Resolution Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts or Maternity Incentive Scheme, and the National Bereavement Care Pathway.

To do this you will work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team within the Women's Health Division and maintain close working relationships with the bereavement midwives as well as external agencies such as other NHS trusts and Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch, drawing on your excellent communication and interpersonal skills which are essential to role. In line with learning from the Ockenden report, this role will involve seeking patient feedback to ensure families voices are heard and utilised within case reviews.

Main duties of the job

Lead our approach to excellence in preventing and reducing perinatal mortality and mortality within maternity and referral to other external organisations.

Leading the perinatal mortality and morbidity service to provide specialist, expert advice and education to support our clinical teams to deliver safe and compassionate care.

• Draw themes and trends from PMRT report, MBRRACE and MNSI findings and develop action plans.
• Conduct gap analysis and benchmark our service against national reports and draw themes and trends.
• Lead on implementation of actions and recommendations from PMRT report, MBRRACE and MNSI findings, working in partnership with our site Associate Directors of Midwifery and Director of Midwifery to sustain and embed the improvements.
• Ensure the actions taken and improvements are effective by conducting regular audits.
• To support bereavement team with on-call requirement.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job responsibilities

The Job Description and Person Specification (JD &PS) attached with this advert provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. Please review the attachment along with the Job Advert.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife
• Requires midwifery specialist knowledge of Perinatal morbidity and mortality standards in an acute maternity setting
• Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience
• Teaching qualification or equivalent

Skills

• Can work autonomously to achieve agreed objectives without reference to a manager
• Excellent problem solving skills, with the ability to prioritize effectively
• Capable of working with clinical and non-clinical staff at all levels, displaying excellent customer service skills
• Self-motivated and able to lead, motivate and work as part of a team
• A professional attitude towards all staff and patients
• Excellent organisational skills while responding to tight deadlines
• Strong root cause analysis skills using outcomes to drive improvements in care, safety and experience
• Have sound analytic skills for quantitative and qualitative data
• Have strong and flexible influencing and motivating skills, and interpersonal communication and networking skills
• Ability to negotiate and influence with all levels of the organisations and different staff groups

Experience

• Evidence of specialist experience of Perinatal mortality and morbidity and coordinating multidisciplinary teams
• Evidence of leading and managing a team or clinical service
• Developing and delivering education and training courses to all disciplines
• Leading practice development and experience in change management to demonstrate learning from incidents and/or service failure
• Trust Board and/or Board sub-committee presentations and assurance through analysis of data and translation into practice improvements
• Experience in team management
• Experience in leading and managing projects
• Experience of guideline and policy development

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.