Employer: University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: UHNM
Town: Stoke on Trent
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/04/2025 23:59
Lead Midwife for PMRT
Band 7
Job overview
The aim of this role is to ensure a coordinated approach to providing seamless bereavement care and support to women and their families. The post holder will be a practicing midwife who will lead and work within the Women’s and Children’s Services. The key responsibility will be to ensure that the MBRRACE Perinatal Mortality Review Tool is implemented within maternity services to support bereavement care and learning to improve practice, 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
The post holder has continuing responsibility for the development and maintenance of the high-quality standards of care designed to address the complex issues surrounding pregnancy loss and to meet the special needs of those suffering bereavement through pregnancy loss. While delivering this service the post holder will work in partnership with team members to act as a resource both within and outside the organisation, strengthening link with health and social care providers.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* They will be responsible for working closely with the bereavement midwives to ensure all cases are identified for review and notified to MBRRACE.
* They will work closely with the bereavement midwives to ensure family engagement is facilitated and that family voice is heard and is incorporated into reviews.
* May be involved in difficult and highly emotional family situations surrounding issues of pregnancy loss and fetal abnormality.
* Manages highly emotive and difficult conversations with service users and their family. Communicating information about child bereavement, and managing patient response, including potential verbal abuse.
* They will maintain responsibility for the organisation of PMRT multidisciplinary review meetings, and consideration of external agencies/trusts that may need to be invited to review meetings.
* Present cases at the multidisciplinary review meetings.
* Undertake critical assessment of cases through PMRT review process, whilst maintaining a safety culture.
* Work with the bereavement midwives and consultant body to ensure that families are informed of review findings. This might be by face-to-face meetings or in writing.
* Work closely with the Clinical Governance Midwives to ensure that learning identified from PMRT reviews is implemented into practice in a timely manner to support ongoing learning and improvement across the trust.
Person specification
Evidence
* NMC registered
* Currently working in the NHS
* Experience in PMRT
Experience
* Experience of working with pregnancy loss
* Recent involvement with PMRT process
Important information about your application
* All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
* References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
* We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
* Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies.
* New recruits are required to pay for their Disclosure and Barring Service check (and admin fee) prior to starting if the role requires a DBS check.
At UHNM we are fortunate to receive a high volume of applications for many of our roles, on this occasion we would reserve the right to close any advert early, therefore please apply without delay!
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