Job summary
Working closely with the UHN senior leadership team you will co-create, develop, deliver, embed, and evaluate Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT) process across maternity services. This role will have direct and indirect change to clinical care aligning to the national maternity transformation programme with particular focus on Maternity Incentive Scheme, MBRRACE-UK priorities and findings and the National Bereavement Care Pathway.

The postholder will also provide and maintain appropriate assurance frameworks for sustainable delivery of any actions or recommendations

The post holder will take the lead on embedding the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT) whilst supporting services to achieve the relevant standards of the NHS Resolution Maternity Incentive Scheme (MIS) designed to support the delivery of safer maternity care, driving a culture of continuous improvement.

This post includes participation in the 24-hour Senior Midwifery manager on call rota.

The post-holder will occasionally need to work at the other site and may be required to travel to other UHN locations to meet service needs. Expenses are claimable under NGH/KGH policies.

Main duties of the job
It is imperative that everyone using maternity services receives safe and personalised care, the UHN PMRT Matron will be a visible, responsive and supportive leader who will work with the UHN senior leadership team and maternity and neonatal workforce to transform and improve our services to enable us to deliver the best outcome for women, birthing people, and their families, ensuring that they receive consistently high standards of safe and effective care, that is constantly innovating and improving.

The post holder will be responsible for developing and maintaining detailed action plans working alongside the UHN Senior Team to ensure robust mechanisms are embedded in the service.

About us
Please submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close adverts once sufficient applications have been received.

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University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) brings together Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As a group, we are committed to improving services for our communities through collaboration, modernising care delivery and striving for excellence. Working together enables us to share expertise, strengthen services and create greater opportunities, and there may be a requirement to work across sites depending on service needs.

Our Excellence Values are Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage. UHN welcomes applications from all backgrounds and is committed to an inclusive working environment. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and hold the Gold Award under the Employer Recognition Scheme. Candidates who identify as members of the Armed Forces community and meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Job responsibilities
Communication
Maintain effective channels of communication, ensuring effective coproduction and cocreation

To establish lines of communication with other UHN colleagues in the Trust and wider healthcare community where appropriate, to ensure that improvements and services are integrated.

Provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or re-assurance skills are required.

To support a communication structure within the Clinical Management Group to ensure all staff are and remain engaged in the UHNs vision for delivering excellence in all we do.

Using the highest degree of motivational and negotiating skills ensure an atmosphere of collaboration across the key stakeholders involved in the delivery of change to ensure improvement is achieved.

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the Shortlisting Criteria section of the document.

Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential

• Clinical professional qualification or operational management qualification or equivalent knowledge gained in a health-related organisation
• Significant experience of working within maternity services
• Comprehensive working knowledge and understanding of the Maternity Transformation Programme and national drivers for change and improvement across maternity & neonatal services
• Management experience to include experience of having undertaken change management
• Experience of analysing complex data with multiple components of information in both qualitative and quantitative formats

Desirable

• Knowledge and understanding of current NHS structures and health and social care delivery systems
• Knowledge and understanding of NHS commissioning and benchmarking
• Project management at a senior level with evidence of leading and managing improvement projects
• Ability to present complex, sensitive or contentious information to a large group of staff or members of the public

Educations, Training and Qualifications
Essential

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of education, training or experience
• Registered Midwife
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
• Must currently Lead PMRT Reviews

Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Essential

• Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.