Antenatal and Newborn Screening Admin Support and Failsafe Officer

Job overview

Exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to work as part of the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Team within Maternity.

The post holder will work under the supervision of the Specialist Midwife for Antenatal and Newborn Screening to provide efficient and effective administration of the six national ANNB screening programmes; Newborn Hearing, Newborn Bloodspot, Newborn and Infant Physical Examination, Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy, Haemoglobinopathies and Fetal Anomaly.  They will also maintain an accurate screening database and provide accurate statistical information.

Applicants must have excellent communication skills, should be proficient using computer programmes, must be able to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines and be an effective team player.

Main duties of the job

Develop and maintain Databases for Antenatal and Newborn screening

responsible for checking the quality of data entered in to failsafe systems

Support the specialist midwife for Antenatal and Newborn screening and the fetal medicine team in maintaining reportable databases.

Ensure all patients attending maternity services are captured on the databases and systems

Alert the Specialist midwife of any abnormal results.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Antenatal and Newborn screening programmes aim to detect conditions that are present in either the mother or baby that might have an adverse effect on the health of either.  Pregnant women and newborn babies are offered screening tests as an integrated and linked part of their care.  Optimal screening programmes require effective team working across a number of professional groups, departments and organisations.  Trust programmes are benchmarked against national and locally agreed standards; and audit and performance monitoring is seen as essential to assure the safety and effectiveness of the service.

The post holder will work under the supervision of the Specialist Midwife for Antenatal and Newborn Screening to provide efficient and effective administration of the six national ANNB screening programmes; Newborn Hearing, Newborn Bloodspot, Newborn and Infant Physical Examination, Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy, Haemoglobinopathies and Fetal Anomaly.  They will also maintain an accurate screening database and provide accurate statistical information.

The post holder is responsible to the Specialist Midwife for Antenatal and Newborn Screening and will also work closely with the Fetal Medicine team based within the Trust.

Advertising date: 14th October 2024

Closing date: 24th October 2024

Interview date: TBC