Antenatal and Newborn Screening Coordinator- Midwifery Leader

at  Whittington Health NHS Trust

Antenatal and Newborn Screening Co-ordinator
The post holder will be a specialist resource in the field of antenatal & newborn screening and diagnosis, assisting and advising other health professionals in the care of women undergoing testing. They will lead the implementation and evaluation of systems to ensure that every pregnant person and newborn baby is offered all appropriate NHS funded screening programmes offered by the Trust ,meeting national standards; linking with regionally agreed quality assurance mechanisms.
To lead the Antenatal and Newborn Screening service and establish an infrastructure that will deliver a level of service which is equitable, evidence based and consistent with the recommendations and standards of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC)
To act as the professional lead for the day to day management, evaluation and quality assurance of the screening process including the provision of digital screening information, the screening procedures and any onward referral.
To work closely with the Risk and Governance team and participate in investigations of antenatal and newborn screening incidents and share learning from incidents and changes in practice with staff.
To operate and monitor all failsafe system to identify, as early as possible, mothers and babies that may have missed or where screening results are incomplete across the antenatal and newborn screening and vaccination programmes.
To liaise with NHS England (NHSE) and Quality Assurance (QA), by participating in national Quality Assurance processes, reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs),risks and audits. To undertake reviews as requested by QA teams with a timely response to any recommendations.
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
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