Employer Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Thomas Linacre Centre Town Wigan Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 02/09/2025 23:59
Antenatal and Newborn Screening Midwife
NHS AfC: Band 6
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Job overview
Are you a highly motivated, experienced midwife with a passion for screening, looking for a new challenge?
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced band 6 midwife to join our established Antenatal and Newborn Screening Team, supporting the screening coordinator to ensure a high quality antenatal and newborn screening service is provided for all women and their families.
To achieve this the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Team work in collaboration with local programme clinical leads to ensure NHS England screening programme standards are met and will monitor the quality and effectiveness of the screening services offered in the Trust.
Main duties of the job
* Manage screen positive results across the screening pathways.
* Counsel women and their families in the event of a high risk or antenatal screen positive result.
* Collect and collate matched cohort screening data for quarterly and annual data returns.
* Write and present screening programme reports at local, regional and national level.
* Participate in audit, education of staff and guideline development.
Working for our organisation
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To assist the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Coordinator to provide individualised, specialist and evidence-based advice and screening services to our service users.
* To assist the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Coordinator to facilitate and deliver training on mandatory study days for maternity staff, supporting in the education of the wider team relating to the antenatal and newborn screening programme.
* Make accountable decisions based on knowledge and experience in respect of patient care.
* Assist the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Coordinator by taking an active role in the antenatal education of service users and their relatives in relation to the antenatal and newborn screening programme.
* To work independently when required, and within the screening and wider multidisciplinary teams.
* To assist the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Coordinator with accurate data input and collection for measuring outcomes.
* Act as a role model, sharing effective practice and learning from others, promoting a high standard of safe and effective care which is based upon the best evidence.
* Contribute to service delivery and innovation, ensuring that the service is delivered in line with local, national and trust standards.
* Commitment to ongoing service development and quality improvement work.
* To assist the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Coordinator by participating in audit, risk management, quality, practice and education initiatives to drive and support the implementation of change as necessary
* Ensure compliance with incident reporting systems to ensure incidents are reported.
* Awareness of the local risk assessment and risk register.
* To remain compliant with maternity mandatory training days to remain up to date in line with NMC requirements relating to revalidation.
* Act in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct always.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Midwife on the NMC register.
* ENB 997 or other teaching / mentoring qualification or equivalent experience.
* Degree in midwifery or equivalent.
* Evidence of ongoing professional development.
* Evidence of completion of comprehensive preceptorship programme.
* NIPE
* NLS
Experience
* Experience of working as a practising midwife in all areas of midwifery practice.
* Effective communicator with excellent written and interpersonal skills.
* Can demonstrate evidence of clinical expertise and knowledge acquired through CPD and experience.
* Experience of antenatal and newborn screening programmes.
* The ability to work on own initiative.
Skills
* Clear understanding of midwifery issues and an up-to-date knowledge of current NHS developments within maternity services.
* Able to deliver a high standard of evidence based individual client care.
* Computer literate with sound knowledge of software packages and good keyboard skills.
* Experience of data collection and compilation of statistics.
* Experience of auditing the service.
Knowledge
* Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues.
* Evidence of clinical and professional expertise acquired through CPD and experience.
* Experience of and an understanding of resource management.
* Knowledge of antenatal and newborn screening programmes.
Additional
* Flexible and positive approach to work.
* Able to travel between sites.
* Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role.
Our Trust prefers candidates to submit applications online. Please contact the Recruitment Team on 01942 244000 if you have difficulty applying online.
The Trust reserves the right to close adverts earlier than the stated closing date if there is a high volume of applications.
We endeavour to inform all applicants of the outcome of their application by email or SMS text message.
Guidance on Completing Your Application
Applications are scored against the person specification, therefore we recommend that you use the supporting information section of your application form to demonstrate how you meet the essential and desirable criteria for the role, providing illustrative examples where possible.
On-Call
Please note that some roles may require you to participate in an on-call rota, if the role is predominantly operational.
WWL has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. and will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester Local Authority or NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority; giving you access to our service-related benefits.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Janice Reid / Janet Barker Job title Antenatal and Newborn Screening Coordinators Email address janice.reid@wwl.nhs.uk Telephone number 0300 707 5702 Additional information
janet.barker@wwl.nhs.uk
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