Band 6 – Martha’s Rule Clinical Lead

Job summary

To lead the implementation of Martha's Rule across adult and paediatric services, ensuring compliance with national guidelines. This includes facilitating rapid escalation pathways for deteriorating patients, staff education, and promoting staff and family-initiated escalation and Patient Wellness Questionnaire (Intentional Rounding) and reporting to NHSE every month on implementation. The role requires collaboration with multidisciplinary teams (MDTs), patients, and families to enhance Patient safety in both Adult and Paediatric care settings.

Main duties of the job

• Implementation of Martha's Rule:

Develop and operationalise hospital-wide processes for Martha's Rule, including:

-Ward level triaging for adult patients

- 24/7 access to a critical care/paediatric teams for patients/families to request urgent reviews.

- Clear paediatric and adult-specific escalation protocols (e.g., integration with PEWS/NEWS2).

- Ensure paediatric safeguarding policies align with family-initiated escalation.

• Audit & Compliance:

-Reporting to NHSE monthly basis with standardised toolkit

- Monitor adherence across all wards (including paediatrics), track escalation outcomes, and report to leadership.

- Collaborate with paediatric clinical teams to address unique challenges (e.g., parental anxiety, safeguarding).

• Patient & Family Advocacy

- Act as a point of contact for families in adult and paediatric settings, ensuring concerns are escalated appropriately.

- Promote family-centred care and transparency in paediatric environments.

• Multidisciplinary Collaboration:

- Work with paediatric teams, safeguarding leads, and adult critical care teams to refine pathways

- Participate in paediatric and adult incident reviews related to deterioration.

About us

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice