Perinatal Mortality and Morbidity (PMRT) Lead Midwife (NUH) | Barts Health NHS Trust

Barts Health NHS Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the UK is seeking an experienced Lead PMRT Midwife to join their Women's Health Safety Team at Newham University Hospital. This role involves leading efforts to address perinatal mortality through collaboration, analysis, and implementation of improvements, ensuring compassionate care and adherence to national standards. Candidates should have exemplary communication skills and relevant midwifery experience. This position offers a chance to contribute to a high-performing healthcare organization.

Benefits

Commitment to inclusion and diversity

Opportunity for professional development

Qualifications

• Experience as a midwife, preferably in a leadership role.
• Ability to analyze reports and draw themes from findings.
• Experience in implementing service improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of actions from PMRT report.
• Conduct regular audits to ensure improvements are effective.
• Support the bereavement team with on-call requirements.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Expertise in perinatal mortality

Job description

Overview

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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 Barts Health

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 Description & Person Specification

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This advert closes on Monday 10 Nov 2025