Antenatal & Newborn Screening Midwife

Job Overview

We are pleased to be able to offer part time hours for

a band 6 midwife to join the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Team at Wexham Park Hospital.

The successful applicant will join the team of Specialist Midwives to ensure that the National Antenatal and Newborn Screening programmes are delivered safely and effectively within the service at Frimley Health.

We work closely with NHS England’s regional screening and immunisation teams and also support the maternal and neonatal immunisation service within our organisation.

In addition, this role requires the individual to work with the wider multidisciplinary team including specialist fetal medicine consultants, sexual health services, gastroenterology services and tertiary Fetal Medicine and genetic Services.

Excellent communication and organisational skills are essential as this is a very busy but unique role that will allow the successful applicant to develop skills in the management of service that affects all areas of maternity care.

Computer Literacy skills including familiarity with Microsoft Office packages including Word, Publisher, Excel and PowerPoint are essential for this role.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

Duties

The main duties of this role are to support the Antenatal Screening Coordinator and specialist Midwives to deliver the NHSE antenatal and Newborn screening programmes. The team deal with a range of issues including:

• Supporting women to discuss and make choices during pregnancy when there are additional concerns.
• Counselling women and couples about high chance screening results
• Coordinating care for women with positive infectious disease screening results, HIV , Syphilis and hepatitis.
• Support parents and coordinate multidisciplinary care for babies with known fetal abnormalities and babies with suspected chromosome abnormalities including supporting parents to make choices to continue or terminate the pregnancy.
• Capture and maintain extensive data which is required to track our population and monitor performance in line with national standards.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The successful applicant will be an experienced Midwife, required to work independently and as part of a close knit team . They will be compassionate and non-judgemental offering a sensitive approach to difficult conversations. The post holder will need to have good computer literacy skills including good working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel.

This is a fantastic opportunity for midwives to extend their expertise, develop specialist knowledge and access further education.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Midwife
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Counselling certificate Mentorship
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• IT literate - experience with MS office
• experience of teaching and presenting
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of assisting with diagnostic tests
• Experience workng in community and delivering screening programmes
  
  

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of Antenatal diagnostic testing
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of antenatal screening programmes
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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