PDM for Martha's Rule in Maternity Services

Practice Development Nurse (Band 7)

Supporting the Implementation of Martha's Rule in Maternity Services

15 hours per week (0.4 WTE) | Fixed-Term Secondment (4 months)

Critical Care Outreach Team (CCOT), Whittington Health NHS Trust

Are you passionate about patient safety, education and improving outcomes for patients in maternity services?

We are seeking an experienced Midwife to support the implementation of Martha's Rule across maternity services. This exciting secondment opportunity will enable you to lead education, practice development and quality improvement initiatives that strengthen the recognition, escalation and management of deteriorating patients.

Working closely with the Martha's Rule Implementation Lead Nurse, Lead Practice Development Midwife, Obstetricians, Neonatal Matron and Critical Care Outreach Team (CCOT), you will develop and deliver innovative education programmes, support clinical practice, and help embed a culture where concerns raised by patients, families and staff are recognised, escalated and acted upon.

The Role Will Include

• Delivering education and simulation training to support Martha's Rule implementation.
• Supporting staff to recognise and escalate deteriorating patients effectively.
• Developing educational resources, competency frameworks and sustainable learning programmes.
• Promoting patient safety, human factors awareness and effective communication.
• Supporting audit, quality improvement and evaluation activities.
• Acting as a clinical role model and champion for Martha's Rule within the Maternity services.

This opportunity is ideal for a motivated midwife who is passionate about education, leadership and improving patient safety. You will gain valuable experience in service improvement, change management and implementation of a national patient safety programme while helping to make a lasting difference to patients and families.

Join us and help embed Martha's Rule, ensuring every patient and family has access to timely review and escalation when concerns arise.

Whittington Health mission, vision and goals

We have an excellent reputation for being innovative, responsive and flexible to the changing clinical needs of the local population. We are treating more patients than ever before and are dedicated to improving services to deliver the best for our patients.

Our mission

Helping local people live longer, healthier lives.

Our vision

Provide safe, personal, co-ordinated care for the community we serve.

Our goals

We have developed six key strategic goals to make sure we continue to support people to live longer, healthier lives.

• To secure the best possible health and wellbeing for all our community
• To integrate and coordinate care in person-centred teams
• To deliver consistent, high quality, safe services
• To support our patients and users in being active partners in their care
• To be recognised as a leader in the fields of medical and multi-professional education, and population-based clinical research
• To innovate and continuously improve the quality of our services to deliver the best outcomes for our local population

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lisa Carrie Job title: Lead nurse CCOT & Martha's Rule Implementation Email address: lisacarrie@nhs.net Telephone number: 0208 288 3836