Lead Midwife for Perinatal Mortality Review

Lead Midwife for Perinatal Mortality Review University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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 University College Hospital Foundation Trust on a substantive basis. 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 implemented within UCLH maternity services in line with standards set by MBRRACE, NHS Resolution Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts, and the National Bereavement Care Pathway.

Main duties of the job

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. The role is an exciting opportunity to develop presentation and case review skills. You will also maintain close working relationships to ensure that learning identified from PMRT is shared and embedded into practice, whilst supporting a positive safety culture.

Job responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Person Specification Knowledge and Qualifications

• Registered midwife on part 10 of register
• Understand statutory requirement for midwives
• Degree level study relevant to post
• Sound knowledge of current midwifery issues, with an understanding of the relevance and local impact of issues and policy from the wider arena of the midwifery profession and the NHS (e.g. NHS resolution, national bereavement care pathway).

Experience

• Relevant clinical experience
• Experience of caring for families experiencing pregnancy loss
• Experience of Perinatal Mortality Review Tool, or similar

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others and ability to work on own initiative.
• Demonstrates understanding and engagement with quality issues (e.g. benchmarking)

Communication

• Evidence of good written and oral communication skills, including giving presentations, and chairing meetings.
• Key resource for communication with and dissemination of information from the multi-disciplinary team, and stakeholder engagement
• Good skills in report writing, auditing and data collection.
• Demonstrates understanding of the importance of supportive team working.

Personal and People Development

• Evidence of professional development and relevant further study.
• Ability to motivate and lead the staff team and maintain good working relationships.
• Proven teaching ability and experience of being an effective preceptor / facilitator.
• Experience of staff recruitment, development and performance management

Ensure the risk of infection to self, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors is minimised by:

• Being familiar with, and adhering to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control.

Specific Requirements

• Clinical skill to provide support to specialists on-call maternity rota as required (within working hours)

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.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing, University College London Hospital

£54,320 to £60,981 a year Per annum inclusive of HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

309-UCLH-5919

Job locations

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing, University College London Hospital