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.
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.
If you feel you are a suitably experienced candidate that would excel in this role, please submit an application.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
- University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
- University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
- Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
- University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
- The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
- University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nicola Hawes Job title: Matron for Governance and Safety Email address: n.hawes@nhs.net
