PMRT Midwife (Cross-Site)

The Methodist Church in Britain; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; In loco; GBP 43.000 - 56.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a specialist midwife to lead the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool process across its maternity services, covering both hospital sites.

You will chair multidisciplinary meetings, work with bereavement midwives and families, and translate learning into improvements and training to enhance patient care and safety across the Trust.

Competenze

• Must be a registered midwife with ongoing professional development.
• Experience caring for families experiencing pregnancy loss.
• Knowledge of PMRT processes and bereavement care pathways.
• Ability to chair multidisciplinary meetings and lead quality improvements.

Mansioni

• Lead coordination of PMRT reviews within maternity services.
• Chair multidisciplinary PMRT meetings and engage external agencies when needed.
• Collaborate with bereavement midwives and families throughout the process.
• Translate learnings into measurable clinical improvements, pathways and education.
• Support training programmes and embed review learning in education.

Conoscenze

Leadership

Communication

Quality improvement

Prioritisation

Meeting chairing

Presentation skills

Formazione

Registered midwife

Ongoing professional development

Degree/Masters (Nice to have)

Descrizione del lavoro

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a specialist midwife to lead the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool process across its maternity services, covering both hospital sites. The work centres on reviewing late miscarriages, stillbirths and neonatal deaths in a timely, family-informed way, chairing multidisciplinary meetings and feeding learning into practice and training. The post works closely with the governance team and bereavement midwives, including meeting bereaved families to share findings. Registration as a midwife and experience of pregnancy loss care are essential.

What the job involves

• Lead coordination of all elements of the PMRT review process within maternity services
• Ensure reviews meet expected timeframes and align with local risk management and the Trust's PSIRF
• Facilitate and chair multidisciplinary PMRT meetings, including external agencies where needed
• Work with bereavement midwives to identify cases, submit MBRRACE notifications and enable family input
• Support family discussions on the review process and offer follow-up by meeting or letter
• Meet bereaved families to share review findings, with explanation, emotional support and opportunity for questions
• Assess clinical care before each perinatal loss against local and national guidelines
• Facilitate reflective case discussions to identify avoidable factors and areas for learning
• Translate PMRT learning into measurable clinical improvements, pathways, policies and education
• Liaise with the Education Midwifery Team to embed review learning in the training programme
• Design, implement and evaluate quality improvement initiatives to reduce perinatal mortality and improve family support
• Provide clinical presence in maternity areas during periods of high activity, if required

Qualifications

• Registered midwife
• Evidence of ongoing professional development

Experience

• Relevant clinical experience
• Clinical skills to support the specialist maternity rota as required
• Experience of caring for families experiencing pregnancy loss

Skills & knowledge

• Sound knowledge of current midwifery issues, including NHS Resolution and the national bereavement care pathway
• Sound clinical midwifery knowledge across all areas of maternity
• Good written and oral communication, including presentations and chairing meetings
• Evidence of involvement in quality improvement in a clinical area
• Ability to prioritise own and others' workload and work on own initiative
• Demonstrate the Trust values of safety, kindness, teamwork and improvement

Other

• Practise in line with the NMC Code, Midwives Rules and Trust policies

Nice to have

• Evidence of a degree or masters qualification
• Experience of the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool or similar
• Understanding of and engagement with quality issues, such as benchmarking

What’s offered

• Access to a programme of high quality training and development
• Support for staff health and wellbeing