Mortality Support Officer

An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen to provide support within the Medical Directorate for a Mortality Review Officer for a period of nine months. They will have the ability to support the Morality Review programme and wider Learning from Deaths agenda within the organisation. They will have the ability to continue with the current clinical audit projects and develop quality improvements within the organisation. The post holder will be expected to communicate complex information to all levels of employees both within and external to the organisation in a clear written and oral format. The post holder will also provide management information for mortality review meetings, ensuring relevant information is available in a timely manner for learning from death reporting.,

• Communicate data analysis and interpretation of results to clinicians and other large groups in a variety of formats to aid understanding of mortality themes and trends
• Advise on appropriate format/techniques to present mortality review findings at meetings/conferences/events
• Collaborate with the Patient Safety, Business Intelligence, Quality Improvement and Clinical Audit Teams to develop new and improved reporting and analytics for mortality to enable effective learning and insight
• Work collaboratively with clinical and corporate teams to improve programme outputs from learning from deaths
• The post holder will be communicating a wide range of information to all levels and across organisations. Due to the field/focus of the role, this can be sensitive, emotive or highly contentious, requiring the post holder to utilise empathetic communication skills to provide reassurance, promote engagement and gain co-operation of recipients
• Deliver training and stakeholder engagement activity for service users, carers and partner organisations to become involved in the mortality review programme
• Enable & support the relative/carers of service users to take an active part in mortality review process, to improve the quality & effectiveness of practice & service delivery
• Ensure relevant checks are performed to ensure national data opt out wishes are respected
• Work collaboratively with the Medical Examiner function to support scrutiny of non-acute non-coronial deaths.
  
  Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.