Antenatal Screening Midwife

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

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Job summary

To assist the Antenatal Screening Coordinator and/or their deputy, in the operational running of all the Antenatal Screening Programmes within the teams remit. This includes, but is not exclusively supporting screen positive women/families and maintaining and failsafing the screening pathways.

To support the Antenatal Screening coordinator and or their deputy, in delivering, with other members of the Multidisiplinaty team, an Antenatal Screening Programme within Maternity Services ensuring an infrastructure that will deliver a level of service which is equitable, evidence based and consistent with the national standards.

Counseling Women and their partners concerning screening and screen positive results for themselves.

Main duties of the job

To assist the Antenatal Screening Coordinator and/or their deputy, in ensuring that the Antenatal Screening Programmes meet locally agreed policies and protocols as well as nationally agreed standards.

To work in accordance with the agreed guidelines and policies relating to Antenatal Screening.

To work alongside the Antenatal Screening coordiantor and /or their deputy to develop and maintain monitoring tools to access and audit efficacy of service provison and quality standards.

To support the deliverery of the antenatal Screening service working within the National Screening Standards. Including covering FASP,Anomolmy, infectious disease and Haemaglobinopathy-programmes.

We would be happy to negotiate hours possibly part time

About us

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises.As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding.The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:

Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live

Date posted

08 May 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year pro rata per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

381-WC-5947632-A

Job locations

Sandwell & West Birmingham

City Hospital Dudley Road

Birmingham

B18 7QH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for details on the main duties and responsibilities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for details on the main duties and responsibilities.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience of post registration experience in continuous clinical practice
Registered practitioner on NMC register

Desirable

Couselling Skills

Personal Qualities

Essential

Ability to work within a Team
Good Communication Skills

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience of post registration experience in continuous clinical practice
Registered practitioner on NMC register

Desirable

Couselling Skills

Personal Qualities

Essential

Ability to work within a Team
Good Communication Skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).