Antenatal and Newborn Screening Failsafe Officer

4 months ago


Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Line management of staff will be required in this role completing annual appraisals and staff one to ones. Also management of sickness reviews and any HR issues with the support of the Screening Managers. Report screening incidents via datix and will be responsible for the completion of screening incident assessment forms where appropriate and support the management of the incident dashboard.

For full details please refer to Job Description and Person Specification which explain the main duties of this job.

With over 17,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career

The Antenatal and Newborn (ANNB) failsafe officer supports the antenatal and newborn screening managers in the collation and entry of data for the antenatal and newborn screening programmes, Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy, Down’s syndrome screening and Fetal Anomaly Screening, Haemoglobinopathy screening, Newborn Infant Physical examination, and Newborn Bloodspot Screening, also including relevant vaccination programmes. The failsafe officer will identify screening coverage of the eligible population and ensure safety of the screening programmes. She/ he will work closely with the Antenatal and newborn screening manager to facilitate failsafe mechanisms to identify and also prevent missed screening opportunities and maintain an audit trail for all of the above mentioned screening programmes. The ANNB failsafe officer will also maintain and evolve mechanisms to collect cohort data for the key performance indicators (KPI), and for the National Screening Committee Annual Report for Antenatal and Newborn Screening, including the Congenital Anomalies Register (CAR) and the Health Protection Agency (HPA) Quarterly data

The ANNB failsafe officer will be expected to communicate with other professionals involved in the screening process, to participate in the organisation of meetings, take minutes for the meetings, preparation of teaching materials and dissemination of performance management letters.

The post holder will provide support to the Antenatal and newborn screening managers for the Antenatal and Newborn Screening programmes, working within strict departmental and national procedures with responsibility for receiving, maintaining and providing manual and electronic data containing sensitive and confidential screening information.



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