Antenatal & Newborn Screening Failsafe Support

3 months ago

Leicester, United Kingdom University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Full time

An exciting new role has been created within the Antenatal services team at the University hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

This role will involve supporting the antenatal and newborn (ANNB) screening team with ensuring that all women and babies who accept screening get a conclusive result in a timely manner.

Combining administration and working within the clinical environment to ensure that screening test requests are completed within the required timeframe and submitted to the laboratory in a suitable manner for testing.
- Provide clinical and non-clinical support to the Multi-professional team under the direction of an appropriate Registered Health Care Professional.
- Deliver direct and indirect care under the direction of an appropriate Registered Health Care Professional.
- Deliver effective healthcare to patients/ service users.
- Undertake unsupervised aspects of care and therapeutic intervention as delegated by the Registered Health Care Professional within an agreed protocol, sphere of responsibility and after completing appropriate competency based training agreed by the Trust.
- Failsafe the antenatal screening programmes within the antenatal department, working closely with the maternity ultrasound department to ensure women receive a conclusive result for their antenatal screening tests
- Use the national newborn failsafe systems to ensure that all babies under the care of UHL receive blood spot screening and the Newborn Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) in a timely manner
- Communicate appropriate information to women and their families

We are one of the biggest and busiest NHS trusts in the country, incorporating the General, Glenfield and Royal Infirmary hospitals. We have our very own Children’s Hospital and run one of the country’s leading heart centres.

Our team is made up of more than 17,000 staff providing a range of services primarily for the one million residents of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We work with partners at the University of Leicester and De Montfort University providing world-class teaching to nurture and develop the next generation of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, many of whom go on to spend their working lives with us.

Our purpose is to provide ‘Caring at its best’ and our staff have helped us create a set of values that embody who we are and what we’re here to do. They are:

- We focus on what matters most
- We treat others how we would like to be treated
- We are passionate and creative in our work
- We do what we say we are going to do
- We are one team and we are best when we work together

Our patients are at the heart of all we do and we believe that ‘Caring at its best’ is not just about the treatments and services we provide, but about giving our patients the best possible experience.

**About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust**: (leicestershospitals.nhs.uk)
- Knowledge and experience of Antenatal / Maternity care procedures,guidelines and practices
- Understand the antenatal and newborn screening programmes and the importance of submitting samples that are suitable for testing to the lab
- Ensure that the daily tracking of Trisomy screening samples is correct and action any investigation into any omissions
- Ability to organise, prioritise and adjust own workload in relation to clientcare working alongside the multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to use spreadsheets and databases in order to support the wider ANNB screening team in the monitoring and effectiveness of the screening programmes.
- Ability to cope with difficult family situations including child protection issues, Rainbow babies and babies with specific birth anomalies to support women and colleagues during these times.
- Deputise for the ANNB failsafe officer or regional fetal cardiac co-ordinator as required
- To thoroughly investigate any possible missing screening samples when reviewing the antenatal and newborn screening cohorts and escalate any concerns to the senior ANNB screening team
- To work as a role model in the clinical area to demonstrate to colleagues the optimal way to submit screening samples to the lab to avoid samples being rejected.
- Ability to use a computer to look up appointments and telephone consultations and arrange appointments. Training will be given if required.
- File medical records.

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