Antenatal and Newborn Screening Midwife
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 26 Awst 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum, pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 25 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Wigan, WN1 1RU |
| Cwmni: | Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7288868/302-25-7288868S |
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A Vacancy at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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 ScreeningTeam 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.
• 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.
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.
• 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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Sep 2025
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 ScreeningTeam 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.
• 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.
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.
• 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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Sep 2025