Job responsibilities
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Name: - April Daniel Position: - Governance & Quality Lead Email: - april.daniel2@nhs.net
Job Summary PMRT Coordination & Delivery
- Lead, manage, and coordinate the full PMRT process for all applicable perinatal deaths.
- Ensure reviews are completed within national timescales and to required standards.
- Facilitate multidisciplinary review meetings, ensuring appropriate attendance and highquality discussion.
- Maintain accurate, timely, and confidential records of all reviews.
- Maintain an accurate and accessible PMRT database; generate reports for local, regional, and national use.
- Provide expert advice on PMRT methodology, standards, and best practice.
- Ensure compliance with Maternity Incentive Scheme and Saving Babies Lives programmes
Other Mortality and Morbidity
- Lead, manage, and coordinate the full Mortality and Morbidity process for all applicable gynaecology deaths.
Parental and family Engagement
- Ensure parents are offered the opportunity to contribute to the review and that their perspectives are incorporated sensitively and effectively.
- Ensure all families receive compassionate communication and are fully informed of the review process.
- Work closely with Bereavement Midwives and Patient Experience teams to ensure family feedback drives service improvement.
- Represent the parent voice within the PMRT process.
Why you should join our Team We are seeking a motivated and experienced Band 7 PMRT Lead Midwife to lead the implementation, quality assurance and ongoing development of the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT) within our maternity services.
The postholder will provide expert leadership for perinatal mortality reviews, ensuring timely, highquality multidisciplinary reviews in line with national guidance. You will work collaboratively with clinical teams, governance leads and external partners to drive learning, improve safety and support excellence in maternity care and engage with compassion with families and service users.
You will be a registered midwife with significant clinical experience, strong leadership and communication skills, and a proven interest in governance, audit and quality improvement. Experience of PMRT, perinatal bereavement care and multidisciplinary working is desirable.
This is an exciting opportunity to influence practice, support staff and contribute to continuous improvement in outcomes for women, babies and families.
What you will bring to the role The Womens CSU Quality and Safety team leader – PMRT Lead will work under the direction and guidance of the Womens CSU Governance and Quality Lead. They will be responsible for the line management of the band 6 Nurses/Midwives and the administrative staff based in the Quality and Safety team.
The key purpose of the role is to support the Womens CSU Governance and Quality lead to deliver the patient safety and quality improvement agenda. They will contribute to the development of governance and quality improvement processes to ensure the provision of high quality care standards, prevention of avoidable harm and avoidable death by using evidence-based best practice, lessons learned and data to identify incident themes, and areas for improvement.
The post holder will monitor and review incidents and investigations and escalate any areas of concern to the Womens CSU Governance and Quality Lead. They will identify opportunities for shared learning of highly complex, highly sensitive or contentious information to members of staff and contribute to the dissemination of information and learning to the wider multidisciplinary team. This may include the presentation of information which requires the use of a range of developed interpersonal and communication skills when communicating
The post holder will be responsible for daily oversight and monitoring of all CSU internal and external reporting processes linked to adverse incidents, morbidity and mortality.
Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.
About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:
Patient-centred Collaborative Fair Accountable Empowered
All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values
We’re committed to recruiting exceptional people to deliver outstanding services across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and helping every colleague reach their full potential. We’re looking for a compassionate, inclusive, and collaborative leader who shares our values and can build strong partnerships. We warmly invite applications from people from a variety of backgrounds and sectors, and are especially keen to hear from individuals from a minority ethnic background. We’re dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and has a true sense of belonging, as we work together to deliver the best in healthcare to the people of Leeds and beyond.
Sponsorship Eligibility
To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.
