Job overview
Joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as the Perinatal Mortality and Morbidity Lead Midwife offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact within a forward-thinking and ambitious maternity service. Our Trust is committed to delivering safe, compassionate, and evidence-based care, with a strong focus on continuous learning, quality improvement, and innovation. This role provides the chance to work closely with experienced multidisciplinary teams who are dedicated to improving outcomes for women, babies, and families, while shaping and influencing maternity services across the organisation.
Gloucestershire Hospitals offers a supportive and inclusive working environment where professional development is actively encouraged, and staff are empowered to lead change. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to strategic maternity safety initiatives, work with senior clinical leaders, and play a pivotal role in embedding learning from reviews into everyday practice. Combined with the benefits of working in a Trust that values collaboration, wellbeing, and career progression, this is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced midwife seeking a rewarding leadership role with genuine influence and purpose.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide specialist midwifery leadership for the Trust’s perinatal mortality and morbidity review processes, ensuring robust, timely and high-quality reviews in line with national standards. The role requires a high degree of autonomy, professional judgement and multidisciplinary influence in complex and sensitive situations. The post holder will lead thematic analysis, triangulate learning from multiple governance sources, provide assurance to senior leaders, and support the translation of findings into measurable service improvement across maternity services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide specialist leadership for PMRT, MBRRACE-UK and MNSI trust-wide reporting via the SPEN portal, producing thematic analyses and triangulation of learning to inform governance, learning and quality improvement
- Lead the coordination and facilitation of support of women and families with PMRT and MNSI processes, ensuring their voices are heard and included within the review processes
- Be accountable for the coordination and facilitation of Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT) meetings, ensuring all eligible cases are reviewed in line with national guidance and within required timescales
- Lead and provide assurance on specified elements of the Maternity Incentive Scheme, relevant to the role
- Lead and oversee multidisciplinary reviews and, where required, external review input to support robust, objective and timely case reviews as appropriate
- Work collaboratively with maternity, neonatal, obstetric and governance colleagues to identify themes, contributory factors and opportunities for improvement from mortality and morbidity review findings.
- Use findings from PMRT, MBRRACE-UK, MNSI, incident reviews, audit and other governance sources to triangulate themes and support service learning.
- Lead the review and benchmarking of national publications related to perinatal mortality and morbidity
- Lead on the development, implementation and monitoring of action plans arising from perinatal mortality and morbidity reviews, ensuring recommendations are translated into measurable improvements in practice.
- Provide specialist advice and support to clinical teams and senior leaders in relation to perinatal mortality and morbidity reviews, governance and assurance.
- Contribute to education, feedback and dissemination of learning from reviews to support continuous improvement in safety, quality and experience.
- Work closely with the bereavement lead midwife, obstetric bereavement lead, governance team and other relevant clinical leads to provide expert advice, improve care and experience for women and families
Please review the attached Job Description for further details.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of specialist experience of Perinatal mortality and morbidity and coordinating multidisciplinary teams
- Evidence of leading and managing a team or clinical service
- Developing and delivering education and training courses to all disciplines
- Leading practice development and experience in change management to demonstrate learning from incidents and/or service failure
- Trust Board and/or Board subcommittee presentations and assurance through analysis of data and translation into practice improvements
- Experience in team management
- Experience in leading and managing projects
- Experience of guideline and policy development
- Ability to lead change and embed learning into practice
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Requires midwifery specialist knowledge of Perinatal morbidity and mortality standards in an acute maternity setting.
- Degree or equivalent experience to master level
Desirable
- Teaching qualification or equivalent
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to take an active role in agreed learning activities and keeps a record of them
- Up to date with local and national issues related to Perinatal mortality and morbidity
- Determined and self-motivated individual
- Able to develop effective local and national networks
- Understanding of own knowledge and Skills Framework and ability to identify learning needs and interests.
- Ability to self-reflect, carry out tasks of own job and identify what s/he needs to learn to able to do current job better
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels across the Trust/Organisation
- Ability to both arrange internal and external meetings to facilitate robust PMRT reviews.
- Assertive but professional Self-motivated, proactive, and resourceful
- Flexible approach and willing to work to cover operational when necessary
- Ability to exercise professional judgement and make decisions independently within scope of role
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Can work autonomously to achieve agreed objectives without reference to a manager
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to prioritise effectively.
- Capable of working with clinical and non-clinical staff at all levels, displaying excellent customer service skills.
- Self-motivated and able to lead, motivate and work as part of a team.
- A professional attitude towards all staff and patients.
- Excellent organisational skills while responding to tight deadlines.
- Strong root cause analysis skills using outcomes to drive improvements in care, safety and experience
- Have sound analytic skills for quantitative and qualitative data
- Have strong and flexible influencing and motivating skills, and interpersonal communication and networking skills
- Knowledge of and interest in quality improvement
- Awareness of the National Guidelines relevant to Perinatal Mortality and morbidity
- Ability to negotiate and influence with all levels of the organisations and different staff groups
- Ability to build effective local and regional networks to support improvement and shared learning
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