Saving Babies Lives and PMRT Midwife- Full time, Cross site

We are looking for a conscientious and dedicated midwife to join our newly restructured Maternity Quality and Safety team. You will be required to work across both acute sites (Basingstoke and Winchester), splitting your time evenly.

If you have a passion for excellence and a professionally curious mind, this could be the role for you. The post holder should have excellent inter-personal skills as well as being highly organised and proactive in their work.

We are currently unable to offer any sponsorship for international applicants or any support for NMC registration. Please only apply if you have an active UK NMC registration as a Registered Midwife and have the right to work in the UK.

Main duties of the job

• To be the lead for the Maternity Service for Saving Babies Lives (SBL) implementation, ensuring that the current version of recommendations and requirements are achieved and maintained.
• Leading the work, setting up and coordinating working groups. Working with midwifery, obstetric and paediatric teams to meet all the standards within the required timeframes
• The post holder will work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, both internal and external agencies and user representatives and act as a representative of HHFT maternity on external forums when required.
• To be the lead for the Maternity Service for the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT), ensuring that all time frames are met for reporting applicable cases and that the correct data is included.
• To be the lead for the Maternity Service for the Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP), attending meetings as scheduled.
• To act as an external panel member for PMRT reviews for other Trusts.
• The post holder will be an experienced midwife that is clinically credible and able to support the service in times of escalation on either site therefore it is a requirement of this role that the postholder will be rostered on to 1x 11.5 hour shift per roster period to meet the needs of the service. This shift may be a night or a weekend shift.
• The post holder will also be required to take part in the trust on call rota, the requirement is 6 per year.

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Tackling Climate Change:Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, searchHHFT Climate Actionor contactclimateaction@hhft.nhs.uk.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For more information please see attached JD and Person Specification.

Alternatively please contact Jo Holland on jo.holland@hhft.nhs.uk

Person Specification

Education and Training

Essential

• Registered midwife with NMC
• Evidence of CPD
• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of the national maternity and neonatal agenda
• Practice Assessor

Desirable

• Quality Improvement training
• Leadership qualification

Experience

Essential

• A minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in a clinical area (UK based)
• Has a good understanding of the PMRT process
• Awareness and understanding of saving babies lives care bundle including implications if non-compliant
• Competent in all clinical areas
• Able to make appropriate clinical decisions in view of recent research

Desirable

• Practical experience of completing PMRT reviews
• Practical experience of completing audits specific to SBLCB

Skills

Essential

• Knowledge of QI methods and tools
• Excellent written, IT and verbal communication skills
• Excellent presentation skills
• Ability to organise and facilitate meetings with the multi-professional team

Desirable

• Excellent inter-personal skills
• Evidence of supporting and communicating with bereaved families

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Basingstoke / Winchester

Basingstoke

RG24 9NU

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