The post holder will be competent, confident and adaptable to the needs of our service users responding to each person's unique health needs to promote safer and more personalised care.
The post holder is required to support the Community Midwife team to help implement, monitor, and maintain a safe and quality assured failsafe process for screening tests. The purpose is to carry out failsafe activities that ensure that screening test results are chased and fed back in a timely manner.
Data for national standards would be required to be kept thus helping to track and thus minimise the risk of harm by missed test results to mothers and babies for which Stockport NHS Trust are responsible.
* Maintenance of an accurate community screening tests database
* Provision of accurate statistical information.
* Provide administrative support to the Community midwifery team including photocopying, filing, faxing, scanning and other routine office tasks.
* Liaise closely with the Community Midwives, wards, ANC and Triage, paediatricians, Obstetricians, Laboratory services and Ultrasound department to help ensure the smooth running of the service.
* Answer telephone enquiries, refer issues to other members of the business group as appropriate and act as the main point of contact in relation to issues/updates for the Community Failsafe system.
* Liaise as appropriate with external service providers.
* Provide data to the Community team leads and Community Matro as required.
* Provide a daily analysis of breaches of Failsafe Systems and to action them appropriately and alert line manager when users of the service are adversely affected.
* Attend MDT meetings regarding patients care and any regional/national update meetings.
* Maintain a flexible approach to the post in order to rapidly assimilate changes in workload, patterns and requirements.
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four 'specialist' hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a 'specialist' hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting and championing a culture of diversity, fairness and equality for all applicants and employees. Applications are welcomed from all backgrounds and we strive to reflect the community we serve in our diverse workforce. Our "two tick" kite mark guarantees a candidate with a disability, who fulfills the essential criteria, an interview at the Trust. We can make reasonable adjustments, and offer support and advice in a variety of ways on request.
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
Benefits we offer to you:
* Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
* NHS pension scheme membership
* Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
* NHS Staff discounts
* Cycle to work scheme
* Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
* Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust's policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary.
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
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