Team Leader Mortality - London, United Kingdom - St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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The Mortality & Morbidity Coordinators Team Leader manages the M&M service and the team of coordinators. The M&M Team has been in place for two years and is well-embedded within the organisation.

The team provide effective and efficient administrative leadership and support to clinical specialties across the Trust, enabling staff to reflect and learn for their own and other's practice.

The post holder will be expected to maintain the level of service currently provided to clinical teams, whilst actively seeking ways to further develop the support offered.

This will include embedding standardised processes, auditing implementation and evaluating effectiveness.

The team is focussed on ensuring that the learning generated by M&M review is systematically captured and shared, with actions designed and implemented to bring about positive change within services and across boundaries.

The Team Leader will be required to help shape and direct this phase of service and team development.


The M&M Team Leader will ensure that there is support for all specialties through allocating each M&M coordinator with a group of meetings to support, and ensuring cross cover for periods of leave.

The post holder will manage their own portfolio of M&M meetings, providing highly effective admin support to clinical teams.


The post-holder will fulfil a leading role in the ongoing implementation, evaulation and modification of standardised processes and formats for mortality governance across the Trust.

Furthermore, they will shape the development of systems and processes that maximise the value of M&M review, including the identification, capture, thematic analysis and dissemination of learning and monitoring of actions.

They will provide overall leadership and direct line management for the M&M Coordinators. The Team Leader will be responsible for recruitment, ensuring high quality appraisal, ongoing support and appropriate staff development.


The post holder will work alongside the clinical staff in the Trust's three clinical divisions: Medicine and Cardiovascular; Surgery Cancer Neurosciences and Theatres; and Women Children Diagnostics and Therapies.


The post holder will work with the Lead for Learning from Deaths and the Head of Mortality to further develop the function across the Trust.


With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, St George's Hospital is the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.


The main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research.

St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.


As well as acute hospital services, St Georges Hospital provides a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across south west London.

A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.


The Trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma.

Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases.

Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role.
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