Job overview
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 fixed-term basis (maternity leave cover) until 01-03-2026.
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, Maternity and Neonatal Safety Investigations and Coroners offices, 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.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the role include:
• Lead and manage the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT) process in line with national standards.
• Ensure all eligible perinatal deaths are reviewed, reported and submitted within required timescales.
• Chair multidisciplinary review meetings and produce high-quality review and mortality reports.
• Work with bereavement midwives to ensure meaningful family engagement and parental voice in reviews.
• Translate learning from reviews into service improvement, quality improvement and safer care.
• Provide expert clinical leadership and liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including MBRRACE and the Child Death Overview Panel.
Working for our organisation
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.