# Band 7 Perinatal Mortality Review Tool Midwife (PMRT)

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** London
- **Profession:** Midwife
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £55,524 - £62,652 per annum pro rata inclusive of HCAS
- **Contract type:** 18 months (Fixed Term)
- **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-19T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-05T14:00:49.086Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Royal_Free_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/PMRT_Midwife/PMRT_Midwife-v8176352
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8176352?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

PMRT midwife

The specialist postholder is responsible for:

- Ensuring the PMRT processes are implemented 3. Assisting in the co-ordination of reviews across the maternity units 4. Developing action plans and learning events 5. Delivering training

### Main duties of the job

Working closely with the consultant midwives and bereavement midwives’ cross site to manage the PMRT (Perinatal Mortality Review Tool) review processes for all eligible cases of intrauterine and neonatal deaths.

Identifying applicable cases, coordinating and managing the reviews, share learnings and implement changes to improve practice, in line with standards set by MBRRACE, NHS Resolution Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts & NHSR claims , and the National Bereavement Care Pathway.

They will work collaboratively with the bereavement team and wider maternity governance team to ensure effective communication systems are in place and to ensure excellent standards of care and compliance with national and local standards.

The role involves communicating with bereaved parents therefore, the PMRT Midwife must be able to manage with highly emotional family situations and be able to have difficult conversations with women and their families about pregnancy loss and potentially foetal abnormality.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### Others

**Essential**

- Innovative, self - motivated, enthusiastic and adaptable
- Skills and knowledge in all areas of midwifery care
- Experience of bereavement care in midwifery and understanding of national and local policies regarding pregnancy and baby loss

**Desirable**

- Experience of being a Practice Assessor

### Skills & Aptitudes

**Essential**

- Demonstrable understanding of PMRT
- Minimum of 3 years’ post qualification experience in Midwifery and 2 years relevant clinical or management experience
- Experience of working within a multi disciplinary team
- Ability to demonstrate awareness of research- based practice and sound knowledge of guidelines in the UK
- Excellent presentation skills
- Ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external professionals
- Excellent standards of all round Midwifery knowledge and clinical skills and a commitment to family centered care
- Work autonomously within guidelines and sphere of professional practice
- Excellent IT skills
- Ability to maintain own statistics and provide written reports as required

**Desirable**

- Experience in quality improvement and of implementing changes in clinical practice in a service
- DCIQ experience
- Experience in maternity governance processes including CNST requirements

### Royal Free World Class Values

**Essential**

- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

### Personal Qualities & attributes

**Essential**

- Excellent communication skills and ability to be responsive to highly emotive conversations.
- Very good organisational and planning skills
- Ability to develop excellent working relationships with all staff, be supportive and motivate others
- Resilient and able to maintain personal effectiveness and work well under pressure
- Flexible, ambitious and willing to develop new skills including completing appropriate training as required

### Education & professional Qualifications

**Essential**

- Degree or equivalent experience
- Postgraduate Diploma or equivalent experience
- Registered Midwife
- Evidence of further leadership training
- Understand statutory requirement for midwives

## Documents

- [pmrt midwife (pdf, 486.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10479191)
- [functional requirements form (pdf, 144.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10479192)
- [nursing and midwifery - benefits, about rfl, values and governing objectives (pdf, 626.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2755)

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