As a PMRT lead you will arrange and facilitate external review meetings and complete the PMRT tool. You will provide a monthly and quarterly report for WCH with robust action planning. You will ensure compliance with completion of MBRRACE data. You will need to work closely with the education team including consultant midwives and PDMs to ensure learning is embedded in everyday clinical practice. You will evaluate and audit if shared learning has taken place with the audit midwife and education team and ensure there is triangulation of all findings from reports (MNSI, PMRT and the NHSI Maternity and safety collaborative) related to stillbirths and late fetal losses.

The successful post holder will work within the Governance team to monitor compliance with Each Baby Counts. They will provide advice to the Associate Director of Midwifery on standardised reporting, investigation, and monitoring system for bereavement care, that provides assurance of quality to the board. The post holder will lead the systems and processes for standardising the surveillance and outcome to inform overall service development and transformation that provides assurance of quality.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the completion of the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT) for all eligible stillbirths and neonatal deaths, will contribute to collating the papers for a multi-disciplinary review of PMRT cases and proceed to finally publishing those cases thereafter if needed, to assist the governance team in collating and monitoring issues which arise from all PMRT cases (stillbirths and neonatal deaths) until the agreed actions have been implemented.

Although this role is based at Newham hospital it also involves facilitating teaching at our sister sites within Barts health.

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 description

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• 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

Desirable

• 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

Skills

Essential

• Can work autonomously to achieve agreed objectives without reference to a manager
• Excellent problem solving skills, with the ability to prioritise 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

Desirable

• Ability to negotiate and influence with all levels of the organisations and different staff groups

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of and interest in quality improvement
• Awareness of the National Guidelines relevant to Perinatal Mortality and morbidity

Qualifications

Essential

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

Desirable

• Teaching qualification or equivalent

Communication

Essential

• Able to appropriately convey complex ideas and information to audiences, at all levels across an organisation and to stakeholders, through a range of media
• Highly developed interpersonal skills with an ability to maintain communication with people on complex and at times on sensitive matters
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience of delivering workshops, training and writing reports that include data analysis

Desirable

• Experience of presenting in a variety of settings, internally and externally including to committee meetings
• Able to lead and motivate teams to achieve results and high performance

Personal and People Development

Essential

• Ability to demonstrate enthusiasm towards teaching sharing knowledge
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Ability to take an active role in agreed learning activities and keeps a record of them
• Up to date with local and national issues related to Perinatal mortality and morbidity
• Determined and self-motivated individual
• Able to develop effective local and national networks
• Understanding of own knowledge and Skills Framework and ability to identify learning needs and interests
• Ability to self-reflect, carry out tasks of own job and identify what s/he needs to learn to able to do current job better

Other

Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels across the Trust/Organisation
• Ability to both arrange internal and external meetings to facilitate robust PMRT reviews
• Strategic thinker but able to pay attention to detail where necessary
• Assertive but professional Self-motivated, proactive, and resourceful
• Flexible approach and willing to work to cover operational when necessary

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Newham Hospital

London

E13 8SL

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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