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Learning from Deaths facilitator | Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Posting date:	25 October 2024
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£46,148 - £52,809 pa pro rata
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	24 November 2024
Location:	Aylesbury, HP21 8AL
Company:	Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	6576106/434-CR6576106

Summary

Learning from deaths can help providers improve the quality of the care they provide to patients and their families. NHS England

We are looking for someone who has a background of governance or patient safety to work with the Medical Examiners Office, Medical Quality Lead and Lead Nurse for Palliative and End of Life Care to help develop progressive and innovative systems to embed learning from deaths, and support the implementation of relevant quality improvement projects across the organisation.

Provide advice and support to the corporate and care group teams across the organisation with regard to the Learning from Deaths programme of work.
Critically analyse the outputs from the learning from deaths work, ensuring that the work feeds into other trust process for quality assurance, such as the PSIRF.
Be involved in the review of the outputs against national guidelines, recommendations of professional bodies, specialist societies and developments within the relevant field.
Work closely with the Lead Nurse for Palliative and End of Life Care, Lead Medical Examiner, Senior Medical Examiner Officer (MEO) and Head of Medical Quality to ensure seamless service for the bereaved and that relevant processes are followed.
Work closely with the Lead Nurse, Lead ME, Senior MEO, SDU’s Clinical Governance leads, Divisional Clinical Leads, Heads of Nursing, Consultant Nurses and Head of Medical Quality.
With the Lead Medical Examiner work collaboratively with CCGs, local authority including Coroners and Registrar services. Also, with other Multi-professional Community Services and other stakeholders across the health community. E.g. Leder. Share expertise and help ensure that learning from deaths is embedded into PSIRF and the culture of the
health economy.



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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.

Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.

We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

What do we stand for?

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.

Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.

We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.

We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.

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We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

Main duties and key responsibilities
1. Main Duties
1.1 Focus on learning from deaths, collating themes and learning, working with Lead Nurse
and Head of Medical Quality This Learning will feed into existing trust work streams,
corporate objectives and improvement plans to inform future quality improvements.
1.2 Be a member of BOB learning from Deaths Network and the National Trust Mortality
Leads

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1.3 Ensure that current mortality review processes remain aligned with national
requirements and monitor compliance in conjunction with the Lead Nurse, Lead ME,
Senior MEO and Mortality Review Group.
Provide training on mortality reviews and learning from deaths, to include trust
induction, and dissemination of learning from deaths.
1.4 Support a regional approach to learning from deaths and network with neighbouring
trusts accordingly. Work across organisational and service boundaries to improve
care pathways related to learning from deaths for patients, service users, and
families.
1.5 Be involved in collating regular reports on learning from deaths for presentation at
the trust committees as required with Lead Nurse / Lead Medical Examiner
1.6 Support the SDU Clinical Governance leads to use the Royal College of Physician
structured judgement review methodology for mortality review; identify themes,
learning and actions for quality improvement.
1.7 Establish an on-going programme of audit to evaluate practice in mortality review
and develop the service.
1.8 Any other duties commensurate with the grade and in line with the requirement of
the post.
2. Practice and Service Development, Research and Evaluation
2.1 Assist the Lead Nurse for Palliative and End of Life care and Head of Medical Quality
in the dissemination of learning across the trust.
2.2 Be conversant with all Trust and departmental policies and procedures and ensure
that the requirements are met.
2.3 Assist in ensuring confidentiality and safe keeping of records; promoting accurate
and appropriate record keeping across the multidisciplinary team, dealing with
sensitive information.
2.4 Attend departmental, divisional and senior nurse meetings, ensuring continuous
effective communication.
2.5 Promote the trust as a model of good practice in learning from deaths, leading the
way for other organisations in this field
2.6 Contribute to the Trust’s clinical governance programmes providing expert input on
area of work.
2.7 Champion current national work and recommendations relating to learning from
deaths and translate these where relevant into changes in local practice

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2.8 Critically analyse, evaluate research, publications, recommendations of professional
bodies, specialist societies and developments to inform recommendations and
advice given as part of the job role.
3. Educational Responsibilities
3.1 Provide a supportive environment for all staff (including pre-registration nurses)
which encourages learning and professional development.
3.2 Contribute to training needs analysis in the organisation, advising on education and
training needs related to the responsibilities of this post.
3.3 Work in collaboration with education and training providers to develop programmes
that promote evidence based care and best practice following learning and actions
from mortality reviews.
3.4 Identify own education and training needs and ensure that these are addressed
through the appraisal process with the line manager. Identify own supervisor/mentor
from within or outside the organisation.
3.5 Act as a resource on mortality reviews for healthcare staff Trust wide.
3.6 Use computer software to extract and analyse data as required and to develop and
create divisional/specialty reports and other reports as required in liaison with
Information Services with support from the M & M administrator.
4. Patient and Public Liaison
4.1 With the lead Nurse be involved in user involvement in the programme of work to
help develop patient engagement and input and to improve bereavement services
offered.
4.2 Provide specialist input into relevant patient and public involvement groups.


This advert closes on Sunday 10 Nov 2024