Perinatal Mortality Review Tool Lead Midwife | Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Mid Cheshire Hospitals; Crewe; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in England seeks an experienced midwife to lead perinatal mortality reviews. This role requires organizing multidisciplinary teams, ensuring compliance with PMRT, and supporting the quality governance team. Ideal candidates will have previous midwife experience and strong organizational skills. The position involves collaboration with families and professionals while managing necessary reports and staff training. Applications are encouraged to discuss the role further. This position closes on January 6, 2026.

Qualifications

• Experience as a midwife with knowledge of perinatal mortality review processes.
• Organizational skills to coordinate multidisciplinary meetings and actions.
• Ability to train staff on PMRT and compliance with external review standards.

Responsibilities

• Complete the PMRT process from beginning to end.
• Act as the primary contact for PMRT inquiries from professionals and families.
• Support quality governance with external case review processes.

Job description

Overview

Do you want to be involved in improving the maternity care? Are you organised and passionate about ensuring our services are safe and of high quality?

We are recruiting an experienced midwife to lead perinatal mortality reviews. The role will encompass working with a varied multidisciplinary team and completing the nationally recommended Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT) in its entirety. You will coordinate all actions and drive forward any necessary changes that arise from that review to ensure that families receive high quality safe care. The role will also include supporting the quality governance team with case reviews which are conducted by external bodies and facilitate completion of actions and necessary system changes in response to case reviews where required.

Responsibilities

• Completing the PMRT process from beginning to end (e.g. initial review, duty of candour, chronology, family involvement, arranging and chairing the review meetings, follow up of actions, completion of any mandatory and/or local reporting, staff and service user debrief).
• Being the first point of contact for PMRT for both professionals and families. Ensuring that we remain compliant with PMRT timescales, recommendations and service changes.
• Ensuring that staff are receiving training and are knowledgeable about PMRT and other external review bodies.
• Supporting the quality governance team with cases referred to external review bodies as required.

Contact

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community services for East Cheshire and West Cheshire and Chester. Through our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, we deliver extensive services in 26 medical centres and schools in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance. With 500 beds and around 5,500 staff, we are one of the area’s largest employers.

Please see attached job description for more details.

We welcome prospective applicants to contact us for a more detailed discussion of the role and invite applicants to visit our service.

This advert closes on Tuesday 6 Jan 2026.