Job summary
- Main area
- Antenatal Screening Midwife
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 381-WC-5947632-A
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sandwell & West Birmingham
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Antenatal Screening Midwife
NHS AfC: Band 6
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
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
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for details on the main duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of post registration experience in continuous clinical practice
- Registered practitioner on NMC register
Desirable criteria
- Couselling Skills
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work within a Team
- Good Communication Skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Adela Kinsella
- Job title
- Specialist Midwife in Antenatal Screening
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01215075775
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