Lancashire Care Foundation Trust | Mortality Support Officer

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
Please make an application promptly if you are a good match for this role due to high levels of interest.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including: • Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
• Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
• Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites.
The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing.
We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT. Job overview 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.
Main duties of the job 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.
Working for our organisation 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.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy for the full responsibilities of this role Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria Educated to degree level or equivalent knowledge and experience Knowledge Essential criteria Knowledge and experience of Mortality Case Record review methodology or Patient Safety Investigation Framework and Serious Investigation processes Experience Essential criteria Experience of mortality review and evidence of outcomes Evidence of an ability to use both qualitative and quantitative methods data analysis Demonstrable evidence of an ability to undertake audit/effectiveness projects Skills Essential criteria IT literate & competent - ability to set up and use MS office applications, including access, excel, word, PowerPoint and outlook Good presentation skills including creative writing and visual engaging materials Demonstrable evidence of facilitation skills Ability to work effectively as part of a team Other Essential criteria Ability to work flexibly and adapt to changing circumstances Excellent organisational skills with the ability to work to deadlines Please note that further communication from Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCft) will normally be to the email address given on the application form.
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Please ensure that you read the person specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document.
Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.
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If the post is subject to DBS disclosure, a charge will be made to the successful candidate(s).
You are advised to consider applying for LSCft vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received.
If you are not invited to interview within three weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.
LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce.
We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (particularly those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation.
Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups.
If there is anything you'd like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask.
Employer certification / accreditation badges Applicant requirements The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications.
You are therefore advised to consider applying for this vacancy as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Documents to download Mortality Support Officer JDPS (PDF, 576.3KB) NHS Staff Benefits - 2023 (PDF, 556.9KB) We Do More at LSCFT (PDF, 654.2KB)